mobile money api
Welcome to the GSMA Mobile Money API Developer Portal
The Mobile Money API is an initiative developed through collaboration between the mobile money
industry and the GSMA, which provides a harmonized API Specification for all the common mobile
money use cases which is both easy to use and secure.
# What you’ll get
The developer portal provides a central hub of useful information for the mobile money industry to support the creation and use of Mobile Money APIs, for both business and developer users.
Business Information
Guidance for business and product owners on how the Mobile Money API can support the mobile money industry for specific use cases across multiple industry verticals.
Industry use cases
Case studies
Testimonials
Developer Documentation
A full set of developer documentation and guides for getting started with the Mobile Money API Specification.
API fundamentals
Security and API flows
API reference docs
OAS Open API docs
Code snippets
API use case guides and sequence flows
Developer Tools
A full suite of tools to facilitate developers analysing, implementing or integrating to the API.
Simulator sandbox of example API
Example OAuth 2.0 API Gateway
Use case scenarios sequences
Authenticated Postmans for each scenario
# Benefits and objectives
Using technology best practices in API design and security, the GSMA API aims to simplify and accelerate the advancement of Open APIs in mobile money platforms and stimulate the growth of the ecosystem.
For API providers
- If you are a mobile money provider implementing the GSMA API, the developer portal will support the rapid creation of new APIs to attract third-party service providers to your platform and grow your ecosystem.
For API consumers
- If you are a service provider creating solutions for the mobile money ecosystem, the developer portal will support easily creating solutions which support the GSMA API and allow you to scale your integrations across the industry.
# Mobile Money Metrics
Explore the GSMA’s interactive tool that provides a comprehensive set of global metrics by combining unique data sources from the GSMA Mobile Money programme.
# Explore what’s possible
How can the GSMA API support your business? Explore potential use cases for your industry.
# Explore use cases
How can the GSMA API support common mobile money use cases? Explore the use cases relevant for your business.
# Compliance platform
The GSMA offers a free GSMA Mobile Money API Compliance Verification Service to allow mobile money providers who implement one or more API Specification use cases to verify and market their platforms as GSMA Mobile Money API compliant. The compliance platform is also freely available for providers for development and testing purposes. Please request access by registering or contacting support.mmapi@gsma.com.
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# Collaboration platform
The GSMA has created an online GSMA Mobile Money API Community which is available to all members of the mobile money ecosystem who are interested in collaborating on common APIs. The platform is used alongside GSMA API Working Groups to advance the specification and brings together different stakeholders in an open environment. Here the GSMA will publish API and guidelines proposals, RFCs and beta specifications for requirements raised in the working groups for review by the industry. Please request access by registering or contacting support.mmapi@gsma.com.
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# Other Developer Resources
# SDKs
Access pre-built SDKs which provide a full set of tools, libraries, documentation and code samples which help integrate GSMA APIs. SDKs are available in Android, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP and Java.
# Security
Security design and implementation guidelines are available to help developers ensure best practice security principles are applied to the connection between the API client and the API gateway for authentication and authorisation of API requests.
# Guidelines
Best practice guidance on how and when to use the three supported API request-response flows available in the GSMA specification for API creators, enabling a consistent implementation approach for each flow and simplify implementation.
# FAQs
Explore Frequently Asked Questions about the GSMA Mobile Money API initiative and how the developer portal can help you get started with the API.
# User Dashboard
The GSMA API Gateway is an example authentication gateway which adopts the best practice security recommendations of OAuth 2.0 and is built on the latest AWS API Gateway technology, thus giving providers an easy way to demonstrate how GSMA APIs could work in production with on-boarded service providers.
By registering with the GSMA developer portal, you will get access to a unique user dashboard home with direct access to all the tools required for utilisation of the GSMA API Gateway, sandbox environment and Postman collections with authentication. Portal registration is simple and automated to give developers instant access to their user dashboard to create and view applications for selected products and view your unique API credentials (consumer keys and secrets) required for API access.
# Get Started with Development
Get started with the powerful range of easy to use developer tools to work with the Mobile Money API Specification.