PayHub Python SDK

Official Python client for the PayHub payments API — mobile money & crypto, one API across countries.

• Zero runtime dependencies — pure standard library (urllib, hmac, json).
• Typed payments, transfers and balance objects (frozen dataclasses, py.typed).
• Built-in webhook signature verification.
• Automatic retries on transient errors (429 / 503 / network).

Requirements

Python 3.9+.

Install

pip install barkapay-payhub

The distribution is barkapay-payhub; you import it as payhub.

Quick start

import payhub

client = payhub.PayHub(
    api_key="pk_live_xxx:sk_live_yyy",  # the "key_id:secret" you copy from the dashboard
    country="bf",                        # default country, overridable per call
)

payment = client.payments.create({
    "operator": "ORANGE",
    "phone_number": "50123456789",
    "amount": 10000,
    "otp": "123456",                     # only for synchronous-OTP operators (e.g. Orange)
    "order": {"id": "ORDER-2026-001"},
})

print(payment.public_id, payment.status)

Authentication: pass the raw key_id:secret (or key_id + secret separately). The SDK adds the Bearer prefix — never include the word Bearer yourself (an accidental one is forgiven).

Payments

client.payments.create({...})                          # -> payhub.Payment
client.payments.get("pay_… or order_id")               # by public_id or your order_id
client.payments.list({"status": "SUCCESSFUL", "per_page": 50})  # -> PaymentList (.items, .meta)
client.payments.confirm_otp(public_id, "123456")       # for AWAITING_OTP payments
client.payments.resend_otp(public_id)

The flow depends on the operator — always branch on the returned status: synchronous (SUCCESSFUL/FAILED), AWAITING_OTP (confirm step), or PROCESSING_OPERATOR (final outcome arrives by webhook).

from payhub import PaymentStatus

if payment.status is PaymentStatus.AWAITING_OTP:
    payment = client.payments.confirm_otp(payment.public_id, otp)

Transfers

client.transfers.create({
    "operator": "ORANGE",
    "phone_number": "50123456789",
    "amount": 50000,
    "order": {"id": "XFER-2026-001"},
})
client.transfers.get(transfer_id)
client.transfers.list({"from_date": "2026-06-01"})     # -> TransferList

Balance & operators

balance = client.balance.get()    # payhub.Balance: available / total / holds / currency
client.operators.info()           # authoritative operator list for the country
client.operators.availability()
client.me()

Webhooks

Verify the PayHub-Signature header against the raw request body:

from payhub import webhook
from payhub import SignatureVerificationError

try:
    event = webhook.parse(
        raw_body,                            # bytes or str — the RAW body
        request.headers["PayHub-Signature"],
        endpoint_secret,                     # whsec_…
    )
except SignatureVerificationError:
    return Response(status=400)

# No `event` field — derive it from event["type"] + event["status"].
# Deduplicate on event["public_id"] (retries deliver the same body).

webhook.verify(...) returns a bool if you prefer not to catch.

Errors

Every API error raises a typed exception extending payhub.ApiError (.code, .http_status, .request_id, .errors):

Catch everything from the SDK with payhub.PayHubError.

Configuration

payhub.PayHub(
    api_key="key_id:secret",
    country="bf",
    base_url="https://hub.barkapay.com",
    max_retries=2,        # 429/503/network
    timeout=30.0,         # seconds
    transport=custom,     # any callable matching payhub.Transport (great for tests)
)

License

MIT.