RohoPay Python SDK

Official Python SDK for RohoPay — mobile-money (MTN, Airtel, M-Pesa) and card (Visa, Mastercard) payments across East Africa.

Install

pip install rohopay

Quick start

import os
import uuid
from rohopay import RohoPay

client = RohoPay(api_key=os.environ["ROHOPAY_API_KEY"])

tx = client.collect(
    phone="256700123456",
    amount=50000,
    currency="UGX",
    description="Order #1001",
    callback_url="https://your-app.com/webhooks/rohopay",
    idempotency_key=str(uuid.uuid4()),  # optional; auto-generated if omitted
)
print(tx.internal_reference, tx.status)

card = client.checkout(
    amount=75000,
    customer_name="Jane Mukasa",
    customer_email="jane@example.com",
    return_url="https://your-app.com/checkout/return",
    card_number="4111111111111111",
    card_expiry="10/26",
    card_cvv="123",
)
# redirect the user to card.payment_url  (card is a CheckoutResult)

Methods

Errors

All errors subclass rohopay.RohoPayError and carry status, code, and request_id:

AuthenticationError (401), InvalidRequestError (400/404/422), IdempotencyError (409), RateLimitError (429), APIError (>=500), APIConnectionError (network/timeout), SignatureVerificationError (webhooks).

from rohopay import RohoPay, APIError

try:
    client.collect(phone="...", amount=1000)
except APIError as e:
    print(e.status, e.code, e.request_id)

Verify webhooks

import os
raw_body = request.get_data(as_text=True)
signature = request.headers.get("X-RohoPay-Signature", "")
if not client.verify_webhook(raw_body, signature, os.environ["ROHOPAY_WEBHOOK_SECRET"]):
    return "invalid signature", 401

# Or parse + verify in one step (raises SignatureVerificationError):
event = client.construct_event(raw_body, signature, os.environ["ROHOPAY_WEBHOOK_SECRET"])

The gateway signs outgoing webhooks automatically with the X-RohoPay-Signature header (sha256=<HMAC-SHA256 of raw body>). Your webhook secret is HMAC(APP_SECRET, "webhook:<userID>") — fetch it from Dashboard → Webhooks (the webhook_secret field) and pass it as the secret argument.

Constants

TransactionStatus, PaymentMethod, TransactionType, Environment enums, CURRENCIES, LIVE_BASE_URL, SANDBOX_BASE_URL, WEBHOOK_SIGNATURE_HEADER, and rohopay.__version__ (1.1.3).