Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

What is an API? And how is it used?

We live in a world where our devices communicate with each other and various applications interact with each other freely.

For instance; the sharing of an article from an independent website on social media, the use of Google Maps on Uber, and to bring it closer home, initiating of an M-Pesa message on your phone by apps such as Jumia or Ticketsasa. This is made possible by the use of APIs.

Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of clearly defined methods of communication between various software components. This can be simplified by describing an API as a set of instructions that make connection and interaction between two or more software programs possible.

At Statum developer hub, we provide SMS APIs, Airtime APIs, Mpesa Customer To Business APIs, Lipa na Mpesa online APIs and Mpesa Business To Customer APIs integration.

Who can use our APIs?

Do you need to automate your payment processes in Kenya? Does your business need to integrate Mpesa into your existing system?

Do you need a powerful, fully scalable communication enabler that equips you with the tools you need to manage your business communication more effectively?

Do you need a powerful, Airtime API that recharges or tops up the airtime credit on your customer's phone?

Do you need a simple and easy way to make outward payments processing? This could range from employees' salary disbursements to paying other merchants that accept Mpesa payments.