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Developer Hub Overview

Updated over a month ago

Welcome to the Versapay Developers Page, your gateway to integrating, automating, and extending Versapay’s capabilities via APIs and webhooks. Whether you’re building a custom connection with your ERP, automating invoice imports, or listening for real-time event notifications, this hub has everything you need to get started.

To access the Developer Page, you can access using the following link: https://developers.versapay.com/


What You’ll Find on the Developers Page

Here’s a breakdown of the main sections and tools you’ll see:

Section

Purpose

What You Can Do

Overview

At-a-glance intro to the API platform

Understand core use cases (invoicing, payments, AR collaboration)

Versioning & Compatibility

Ensures your integration remains stable over time

View the current API version and our backward-compatibility commitments

Environments

Sandbox vs. production setups

Test your integration in UAT before switching to live (production) endpoints

Authentication

Secure access control

Use API tokens/keys or JWT tokens to authenticate your requests

Rate Limits

Manage traffic to the API

Understand request caps (e.g. 1,500 requests/min per IP)

Webhooks

Real-time event notifications

Subscribe to invoice, payment, or customer events and receive HTTP callbacks

Entity Payloads & Reference Data

Understand your data models

See schemas for invoices, customers, payments, and lookup endpoints for supporting data (e.g. country codes)

Onboarding & Application APIs

Automate merchant onboarding

Create new merchant applications or check their status via the API

E-commerce & Order APIs

Connect order flows

Create, update, export orders and process related payment transactions via API calls


Why Use the Developers Page?

  • Automation & Scale: Lower manual work by integrating data flow directly between your systems and Versapay.

  • Real-time responsiveness: Use webhooks to immediately react to invoice paid or dispute-raised events.

  • Flexibility & control: Customize integrations to match your business logic, data structures, or UI flows.

  • Safe testing environment: Use the UAT (sandbox) environment to validate your code before going live.


Getting Started: First Steps

  1. Request API credentials via your Versapay account settings (UAT and/or Production).

  2. Use the UAT environment to build and test requests.

  3. Explore the “Overview” and Authentication docs first—they explain how endpoints are organized and how to authenticate requests.

  4. Leverage webhooks to listen for asynchronous events (invoice paid, payment posted, etc.).

  5. Use reference data APIs to translate codes (e.g. country or BIN data) for consistency in your systems.

  6. Gradually move to production when you’re ready—and keep an eye on versioning and rate limits.


Helpful Tips & Caveats

  • The API version documented is 1.3.33. We commit to maintaining backward compatibility and giving advance notice if endpoints need deprecation.

  • Rate limits (e.g. 1,500 requests per minute) apply; large batch operations or bursts of traffic may hit throttling.

  • Webhook consumers must be idempotent (capable of handling duplicate events) to avoid processing the same event twice.

  • The API supports watermark & limit parameters for paginated exports (pulling data incrementally).

  • Occasionally, UI labels and flows may change; always refer back to the latest version of the documentation.

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