{"id":15,"date":"2026-06-19T04:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/mpesa-integration-website-app-kenya\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:03:34","slug":"mpesa-integration-website-app-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/mpesa-integration-website-app-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Accept M-Pesa Payments on Your Website or App in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1563013544-824ae1b704d3?w=900&amp;q=80&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop\" alt=\"M-Pesa integration for websites and apps in Kenya \u2014 Daraja API\" style=\"width:100%;border-radius:8px;\" \/>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your customers are already on M-Pesa. 98% of Kenyan adults have used it. The question is: can your website or app accept their payments?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the answer is no \u2014 you are leaving money on the table every single day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Is M-Pesa Daraja API?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daraja is Safaricom&#8217;s official gateway for connecting M-Pesa payments to websites, apps, and business systems. Instead of giving customers a Till number and waiting for them to manually send money, Daraja lets you trigger a payment request directly to their phone \u2014 they enter their PIN and the money arrives in seconds, with instant confirmation to your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What You Can Build With M-Pesa Integration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>STK Push (Lipa Na M-Pesa)<\/strong> \u2014 a payment popup appears on the customer&#8217;s phone. They just enter their PIN. No paybill number to remember. Used by e-commerce stores, schools, hospitals, and delivery apps across Kenya.<\/li>\n<li><strong>B2C Payments<\/strong> \u2014 pay your suppliers, staff, or customers directly to their M-Pesa wallets from your system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>C2B Payments<\/strong> \u2014 receive M-Pesa payments with instant confirmation sent to your app or system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transaction reversals<\/strong> \u2014 reverse incorrect payments programmatically without calling Safaricom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Needs M-Pesa Integration?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-commerce websites, school portals, hospital billing systems, church giving platforms, delivery apps, SACCOs, property managers, parking systems, insurance companies \u2014 anyone collecting money from Kenyans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Choose Delights Web Services?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have integrated M-Pesa Daraja API into <strong>70+ systems across Kenya<\/strong> \u2014 banks, hospitals, schools, retail chains, and mobile apps. We know the parts that Safaricom&#8217;s own documentation doesn&#8217;t explain clearly. We get it done right, the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Most integrations are live within 5\u20137 business days, including sandbox testing, go-live, and full documentation for your development team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#x1f4de; <a href=\"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/contact.html\"><strong>Let&#8217;s add M-Pesa to your business this week \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your customers are already on M-Pesa. If your website or app can&#8217;t accept their payments, you&#8217;re leaving money on the table. Here&#8217;s what M-Pesa Daraja API does and how to get it set up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,17,14,16],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fintech","tag-daraja-api-kenya","tag-fintech-kenya","tag-m-pesa-integration-kenya","tag-online-payments-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delights.co.ke\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}