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After a charge is completed successfully, you should verify that the payment was successful with Flutterwave before giving value to your customers in your application. This serves as a failsafe, ensuring that the details of the payment is as expected. Here are some important things to check for when verifying the payment:
  • Verify that the transaction reference matches the one you generated
  • Verify that the status of the transaction is successful.
  • Verify that the currency of the payment is as expected.
  • Verify if the amount paid is greater or equal to the amount you expect. If the amount was greater, you can give the customer value and refund the rest.
To verify payments, use the verify transaction endpoint, passing in the transaction ID in the URL. You can get the transaction ID from the data.id field that’s present in the response you get after creating a transaction and in the webhook payload you will receive for the transaction. Here is an example of how you would verify a transaction in some of our backend SDKs. 

// Install with: npm i flutterwave-node-v3

const Flutterwave = require('flutterwave-node-v3');
const flw = new Flutterwave(process.env.FLW_PUBLIC_KEY, process.env.FLW_SECRET_KEY);
flw.Transaction.verify({ id: transactionId })
    .then((response) => {
        if (
            response.data.status === "successful"
            && response.data.amount === expectedAmount
            && response.data.currency === expectedCurrency) {
            // Success! Confirm the customer's payment
        } else {
            // Inform the customer their payment was unsuccessful
        }
    })
    .catch(console.log);
You will get any of the reponse similar to the ones below: 

{
  "status": "success",
  "message": "Transaction fetched successfully",
  "data": {
    "id": 1163068,
    "tx_ref": "akhlm-pstmn-blkchrge-xx6",
    "flw_ref": "FLW-M03K-02c21a8095c7e064b8b9714db834080b",
    "device_fingerprint": "N/A",
    "amount": 3000,
    "currency": "NGN",
    "charged_amount": 3000,
    "app_fee": 1000,
    "merchant_fee": 0,
    "processor_response": "Approved",
    "auth_model": "noauth",
    "ip": "pstmn",
    "narration": "Kendrick Graham",
    "status": "successful",
    "payment_type": "card",
    "created_at": "2020-03-11T19:22:07.000Z",
    "account_id": 73362,
    "amount_settled": 2000,
    "card": {
      "first_6digits": "553188",
      "last_4digits": "2950",
      "issuer": " CREDIT",
      "country": "NIGERIA NG",
      "type": "MASTERCARD",
      "token": "flw-t1nf-f9b3bf384cd30d6fca42b6df9d27bd2f-m03k",
      "expiry": "09/22"
    },
    "customer": {
      "id": 252759,
      "name": "Kendrick Graham",
      "phone_number": "0813XXXXXXX",
      "email": "user@example.com",
      "created_at": "2020-01-15T13:26:24.000Z"
    }
  }
}
The transaction details are contained in the data object. For instance:
  • The status of the transaction is in the data.status.
  • The details of the customer are in the data.customer field.
  • The data.charged_amount field says how much the customer was charged while data.amount_settled tells you how much you will be receiving from the transaction.
Some fields will vary depending on the type of transaction for instance, the card object will only be present for card transactions.