Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) Payment API Integration

This section contains the recommended flow for integrating Benin Electric Bills Payment services on the VTpass RESTful API.

This API allows payment to both prepaid and postpaid BEDC meters.

The VTpass BEDC payment API allows you to vend token for BEDC Prepaid meters and also pay electricity bills for BEDC Postpaid meters using the meter number / Account ID.

For Prepaid meters, a token is generated. This token will be loaded on the customer’s meter by the customer.

Please display token to customer after a successful transaction, also send token by email and SMS to customer.

Benin Electric covers the following States : Delta, Edo, Ekiti, and Ondo States.

 

Authentication

Learn about authentication from here.

 

Available Endpoints

To integrate the VTpass Benin Electric (BEDC) Bills Payment RESTful API, the endpoints below applies:

  • Verify Meter Number
  • Purchase Product (prepaid and postpaid payments available)
  • Query transaction status

Always ensure you validate the customer’s meter number.

ServiceID: benin-electric

 

VERIFY METER NUMBER

Using a POST method, you can verify a meter number with the following endpoint:

Live: https://api-service.vtpass.com/api/merchant-verify

Sandbox: https://sandbox.vtpass.com/api/merchant-verify

 

On Sandbox, please use the following meter numbers (sandbox) to test:

For prepaid: 1111111111111

For Postpaid: 1010101010101

 

To simulate a failed meter number validation, please use any number apart from the one provided above as meter number.

 

FIELDS M/O TYPE DESCRIPTION
billersCode M Number The meter number you wish to make the bills payment on.

On Sandbox
 For prepaid: 1111111111111

For Postpaid: 1010101010101

serviceID M String Service ID as specified by VTpass. In this case, it is benin-electric
type M String This is basically the type of meter you are trying to validate. It can be either prepaid or postpaid

 

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "Customer_Name": "GEORGE",
        "Meter_Number": "04254517835",
        "Business_Unit": "",
        "Address": "8 Aza STREET",
        "Customer_Arrears": ""
    }
}

 

PURCHASE PRODUCT (Payment)

You can make a purchase for either a prepaid or postpaid meter.

Prepaid Meter Payment

Using a POST method, prepaid Token can be vended for Benin Electric prepaid meters with the endpoint below:

Live: https://api-service.vtpass.com/api/pay

Sandbox: https://sandbox.vtpass.com/api/pay

ServiceID: benin-electric

 

On Sandbox, please use the following prepaid meter number to test:

For prepaid: 1111111111111

 

To simulate a failed prepaid meter purchase, please use any number apart from the one provided above as meter number.

 

FIELDS  Mandatory/Optional TYPE DESCRIPTION
request_id M String This is a unique reference with which you can use to identify and query the status of a given transaction after the transaction has been executed.

Click here to understand how to generate a valid request ID

 

serviceID M String Service ID as specified by VTpass. In this case, it is benin-electric
billersCode M String The meter number you wish to make the bills payment on
variation_code M String This is the meter type. In this case prepaid
amount M Number The amount (Naira) of electricity you want to purchase.
phone M Number The phone number of the customer or recipient of this service

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
      "status": "delivered",
      "product_name": "Benin Electric - BEDC",
      "unique_element": "1111111111111",
      "unit_price": 5000,
      "quantity": 1,
      "service_verification": null,
      "channel": "api",
      "commission": 50,
      "total_amount": 5050,
      "discount": null,
      "type": "Electricity Bill",
      "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
      "phone": "07061933309",
      "name": null,
      "convinience_fee": 100,
      "amount": 5000,
      "platform": "api",
      "method": "api",
      "transactionId": "16768963780894197846385048"
      }
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "202302201332123456789067",
    "amount": "5000.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2023-02-20 13:32:58.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": "Token : 36001644489787932779",
    "exchangeReference": null,
    "arrearsBalance": null,
    "appliedToArrears": null,
    "wallet": null,
    "vat": null,
    "invoiceNumber": null,
    "appliedToWallet": null,
    "units": "",
    "token": "36001644489787932779"
}

Postpaid Meter Payment

Using a POST method, electricity bills can be paid for Benin Electric postpaid meters with the endpoint below:

Live: https://api-service.vtpass.com/api/pay

Sandbox: https://sandbox.vtpass.com/api/pay

ServiceID: benin-electric

 

On Sandbox, please use the following meter number to test:

For postpaid: 1010101010101

 

To simulate a failed postpaid meter payment, please use any number apart from the one provided above as meter number.

 

FIELDS  Mandatory/Optional TYPE DESCRIPTION
request_id M String This is the reference with which you can use to query the status of a given transaction after the transaction has been executed.

Click here to understand how to generate a valid request ID

serviceID M String Service ID as specified by VTpass. In this case, it is benin-electric
billersCode M String The meter number you wish to make the bills payment on
variation_code M String This is the meter type. In this case postpaid

 

amount M Number The amount (Naira) of electricity you want to purchase
phone M Number The phone number of the customer or recipient of this service

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
            "status": "delivered",
            "product_name": "Benin Electric - BEDC",
            "unique_element": "1010101010101",
            "unit_price": 5000,
            "quantity": 1,
            "service_verification": null,
            "channel": "api",
            "commission": 50,
            "total_amount": 5050,
            "discount": null,
            "type": "Electricity Bill",
            "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
            "phone": "07061933309",
            "name": null,
            "convinience_fee": 100,
            "amount": 5000,
            "platform": "api",
            "method": "api",
            "transactionId": "16768968041524421988824134"
        }
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "202302201339123456789067",
    "amount": "5000.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2023-02-20 13:40:04.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": "",
    "exchangeReference": "16735244925424401",
    "arrearsBalance": null,
    "appliedToArrears": null,
    "wallet": null,
    "vat": 34.88,
    "invoiceNumber": "43903621",
    "appliedToWallet": null,
    "units": null,
    "token": null
}

 

QUERY TRANSACTION STATUS

Using a POST method, transaction status can be queried with the endpoint below:

LIVE: https://api-service.vtpass.com/api/requery

Sandbox: https://sandbox.vtpass.com/api/requery

FIELDS  Mandatory/Optional TYPE DESCRIPTION
request_id M String This is the reference with which you sent when purchasing a transaction after the transaction has been executed.

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

For Successful Prepaid Meter Payment

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
            "status": "delivered",
            "product_name": "Benin Electric - BEDC",
            "unique_element": "1010101010101",
            "unit_price": 5000,
            "quantity": 1,
            "service_verification": null,
            "channel": "api",
            "commission": 50,
            "total_amount": 5050,
            "discount": null,
            "type": "Electricity Bill",
            "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
            "phone": "07061933309",
            "name": null,
            "convinience_fee": 100,
            "amount": "5000.00",
            "platform": "api",
            "method": "wallet",
            "transactionId": "16768968041524421988824134"
        }
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "202302201339123456789067",
    "amount": "5000.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2023-02-20 13:40:04.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": "",
    "exchangeReference": "16735244925424401",
    "arrearsBalance": null,
    "appliedToArrears": null,
    "wallet": null,
    "vat": 34.88,
    "invoiceNumber": "43903621",
    "appliedToWallet": null,
    "units": null,
    "token": null
}

 

For Successful Postpaid Meter Payment

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
            "status": "delivered",
            "product_name": "Benin Electric - BEDC",
            "unique_element": "1010101010101",
            "unit_price": 5000,
            "quantity": 1,
            "service_verification": null,
            "channel": "api",
            "commission": 50,
            "total_amount": 5050,
            "discount": null,
            "type": "Electricity Bill",
            "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
            "phone": "07061933309",
            "name": null,
            "convinience_fee": 100,
            "amount": "5000.00",
            "platform": "api",
            "method": "wallet",
            "transactionId": "16768968041524421988824134"
        },
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "202302201339123456789067",
    "amount": "5000.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2023-02-20 13:40:04.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": "",
    "exchangeReference": "16735244925424401",
    "arrearsBalance": null,
    "appliedToArrears": null,
    "wallet": null,
    "vat": 34.88,
    "invoiceNumber": "43903621",
    "appliedToWallet": null,
    "units": null,
    "token": null
}

 

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