Personal Accident Insurance API

This section contains the recommended flow for integrating Personal Accident insurance services on the VTpass RESTful API.

 

Authentication

Learn about authentication from here.

 

AVAILABLE ENDPOINTS

 
To integrate the VTpass personal accident insurance RESTful API, the endpoints below applies:

  • Get Variation Codes: this returns variation codes for various personal accident insurance plans.
  • Purchase Product (Using the variation code gotten in the first step).
  • Query transaction status

 

GET VARIATION CODES

Using a GET method, the VTpass variation codes for Personal Accident insurance plans can be accessed with the endpoint below:

Live:   https://api-service.vtpass.com/api/service-variations?serviceID=personal-accident-insurance

Sandbox: https://sandbox.vtpass.com/api/service-variations?serviceID=personal-accident-insurance

FIELDS Mandatory/Optional TYPE DESCRIPTION
N/A N/A N/A N/A

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

{
    "response_description":"000",
    "content":{
    "ServiceName":"Personal Accident Insurance",
    "serviceID":"personal-accident-insurance",
    "convinience_fee":"0 %",
    "varations":[
        {
            "variation_code":"option-a",
            "name":"Option A - 2,500 Naira yearly",
            "variation_amount":"2500.00",
            "fixedPrice":"Yes"
        },
        {
            "variation_code":"option-b",
            "name":"Option B - 4,000 Naira yearly",
            "variation_amount":"4000.00",
            "fixedPrice":"Yes"
        },
        ...
     ]
   }
}

PURCHASE PRODUCT

Using a POST method, personal accident insurance can be purchased with the endpoint below: 

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

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

ServiceID: personal-accident-insurance

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 personal-accident-insurance
billersCode M String The Full name of the person you wish to make the insurance payment on. In this case: Testimetri Adams
variation_code M String The code of the variation (as specified in the GET VARIATIONS method as variation_code).
amount O Number The amount of the variation (as specified in the GET VARIATIONS endpoint as variation_amount)

This amount will be ignored as the variation code determine the price of the data bundle.
phone M Number The phone number of the customer or recipient of this service
full_name M String The Full name of the person you wish to make the insurance payment on.
address M String The Address of the person you wish to make the insurance payment on.
dob M String The date of birth of the person insured in for of YYYY-mm-dd.
next_kin_name M String Customer’s next of kin name.
next_kin_phone M String Customer’s next of kin phone number.
business_occupation M String Customer’s business occupation.

 

EXPECTED RESPONSE

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
            "status": "delivered",
            "product_name": "Personal Accident Insurance",
            "unique_element": "Testimetri Adams",
            "unit_price": 2500,
            "quantity": 1,
            "service_verification": null,
            "channel": "api",
            "commission": 500,
            "total_amount": 2100,
            "discount": null,
            "type": "Insurance",
            "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
            "phone": "07061933309",
            "name": null,
            "convinience_fee": 100,
            "amount": 2500,
            "platform": "api",
            "method": "api",
            "transactionId": "1601022658876"
        }
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "34uiejpj7ui9i0sd0h9jhj4j9imddrt0yu",
    "amount": "2500.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2020-09-25 09:30:58.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": ""
}

 

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

{
    "code": "000",
    "content": {
        "transactions": {
            "status": "delivered",
            "product_name": "Personal Accident Insurance",
            "unique_element": "Testimetri Adams",
            "unit_price": 2500,
            "quantity": 1,
            "service_verification": null,
            "channel": "api",
            "commission": 30000,
            "total_amount": 2100,
            "discount": null,
            "type": "Insurance",
            "email": "sandbox@vtpass.com",
            "phone": "07061933309",
            "name": null,
            "convinience_fee": 100,
            "amount": "2500.00",
            "platform": "api",
            "method": "wallet",
            "transactionId": "1582531685722"
        }
    },
    "response_description": "TRANSACTION SUCCESSFUL",
    "requestId": "34uiejpj7ui9i0sd0h9jhj4j9imddrt0yu",
    "amount": "2500.00",
    "transaction_date": {
        "date": "2020-02-24 09:08:05.000000",
        "timezone_type": 3,
        "timezone": "Africa/Lagos"
    },
    "purchased_code": ""
}