Rate conversion

Retrieve transfer rate for international transfers

POST /transfers/rates

Rate conversion

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "source": {
    "currency": "NGN"
  },
  "destination": {
    "currency": "NGN",
    "amount": 1200.56
  },
  "precision": 5
}
'

import requests

url = "https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates"

payload = {
    "source": { "currency": "NGN" },
    "destination": {
        "currency": "NGN",
        "amount": 1200.56
    },
    "precision": 5
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    source: {currency: 'NGN'},
    destination: {currency: 'NGN', amount: 1200.56},
    precision: 5
  })
};

fetch('https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'source' => [
        'currency' => 'NGN'
    ],
    'destination' => [
        'currency' => 'NGN',
        'amount' => 1200.56
    ],
    'precision' => 5
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"source\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\"\n  },\n  \"destination\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n    \"amount\": 1200.56\n  },\n  \"precision\": 5\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"source\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\"\n  },\n  \"destination\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n    \"amount\": 1200.56\n  },\n  \"precision\": 5\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://developersandbox-api.flutterwave.com/transfers/rates")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"source\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\"\n  },\n  \"destination\": {\n    \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n    \"amount\": 1200.56\n  },\n  \"precision\": 5\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

201

{
  "message": "<string>",
  "data": {
    "id": "rte_r2B1d3",
    "rate": "1200.56",
    "source": {
      "amount": "1200.56",
      "currency": "NGN"
    },
    "destination": {
      "amount": "1200.56",
      "currency": "NGN"
    },
    "created_datetime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
  }
}

{
  "status": "failed",
  "error": {
    "type": "REQUEST_NOT_VALID",
    "code": "10400",
    "message": "Request is not valid",
    "validation_errors": [
      {
        "field_name": "amount",
        "message": "must not be null"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "status": "failed",
  "message": "UNAUTHORIZED",
  "error": {
    "type": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "code": "10401",
    "message": "unauthorized"
  }
}

{
  "status": "failed",
  "message": "<string>",
  "error": {
    "type": "FORBIDDEN",
    "code": "10403",
    "message": "Forbidden"
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Headers

X-Trace-Id · string

A unique identifier to track this operation. It must be between 12 and 255 characters in length.

Required string length: 12 - 255

X-Idempotency-Key · string

A unique identifier to prevent duplicate requests. It must be between 12 and 255 characters in length.

Required string length: 12 - 255

Body

application/json

source · object · required

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destination · object · required

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precision · integer

This is used to signify how many decimal places you want amount returned. if no precision is set, 6 will be used

Required range: 2 <= x <= 9

Response

201

application/json

OK

status · enum<string>

Available options: success, failed

message · string

data · object

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