@ariary/pay

Payment SDK for Madagascar mobile money via the Ariari API.

Server-side only — your secret must never be exposed in client-side code.

Install

yarn add @ariary/pay

Get your credentials

1. Sign in at ariari.mg
2. Create a project
3. You'll receive a secret

Setup

import Ariari from '@ariary/pay'

Ariari.config({
  secret: 'your-secret',
})

How it works

1. Your server creates a payment with an amount (in Ariary)
2. You redirect the end-user to the returned payment.url — a hosted page on ariari.mg
3. The end-user sends money via mobile money to Ariary numbers and receives ticket codes
4. The end-user enters their ticket codes on the payment page (or you collect them and call .pay() from your backend)
5. A payment can be paid in multiple steps — each ticket code applied is a partial payment
6. Once fully paid, your hooks are called and/or the user is redirected

Create a Payment

Ariari.create() accepts the following fields:

// with amount only
const payment = await Ariari.create({ amount: 5000 })
console.log(payment.url) // https://pay.ariari.mg/abc123encrypted

// with product (amount, name, imgUrl resolved automatically)
const payment = await Ariari.create({ productId: product.id })

// with product + override amount
const payment = await Ariari.create({ productId: product.id, amount: 3000 })

// with hooks
const payment = await Ariari.create({
  amount: 10000,
  name: 'T-shirt bleu',
  imgUrl: 'https://example.com/img.png',
  hooks: {
    redirectSuccess: 'https://yoursite.com/payment/success',
    redirectFailure: 'https://yoursite.com/payment/failure',
    silentSuccess: 'https://yoursite.com/api/webhook/payment-success',
    silentProgress: 'https://yoursite.com/api/webhook/payment-progress',
    silentFailure: 'https://yoursite.com/api/webhook/payment-failure',
  },
})

Hooks

redirect* hooks are browser-side redirects. After the user completes or fails on the payment page, their browser navigates to the given URL. Best suited when the payment page replaces the current page (same-tab navigation). If you open the payment page in a new tab (target="_blank"), redirect hooks have no effect on the parent page — use silent hooks instead.

silent* hooks are server-to-server webhooks called directly by the Ariari backend. They must be publicly accessible URLs with a valid domain name (e.g. https://yoursite.com/api/webhook). localhost or local IPs will not work — use a tunneling service like ngrok for development.

Both can be used together — e.g. redirect the user and notify your server at the same time.

Track a Payment

Ariari.create() returns a Payment object with two methods:

• payment.status() — fetches the full payment details from the server (see the response table below)
• payment.pay(ticketCode) — applies a ticket code from your backend (alternative to the payment page)

const payment = await Ariari.create({ amount: 5000 })

// fetch payment details
const info = await payment.status()
// info.status → the payment's current state (see below)
// info.rest   → remaining amount to pay
// info.parts  → list of partial payments applied so far

// apply a ticket code from your backend
const result = await payment.pay('Y-1234')

The status field

The info.status field (not to be confused with the .status() method) indicates the payment's current state:

import { Status } from '@ariary/pay'

if (info.status === Status.PAID) { ... }

Retrieve an existing Payment

Store payment.id to retrieve it later with .getPayment(). Calling .status() returns the full payment details:

const payment = await Ariari.create({ amount: 5000 })
const paymentId = payment.id // save this

// later
const payment = Ariari.getPayment(paymentId)
const info = await payment.status()

Products

A product is a reusable template so you don't have to send the same name, price, and imgUrl every time you create a payment. When you pass a productId to Ariari.create(), the product's data is automatically applied to the payment.

// create
const product = await Ariari.products.create({ name: 'Forfait Premium', price: 5000, imgUrl: 'https://example.com/img.png' })

// list all
const products = await Ariari.products.list()

// update
const updated = await Ariari.products.update(product.id, { name: 'Forfait Gold', price: 8000 })

// delete
await Ariari.products.delete(product.id)

Multiple instances

Use name to manage separate Ariari instances with different credentials. Ariari.config() returns the instance directly.

const shop = Ariari.config({
  name: 'shop',
  secret: 'secret-a',
})

const billing = Ariari.config({
  name: 'billing',
  secret: 'secret-b',
})

await shop.create({ amount: 5000 })
await billing.create({ productId: 'prod-123' })

You can also retrieve a named instance later with Ariari.get().

const shop = Ariari.get('shop')

Without name, the instance defaults to "main" and is used by static methods (Ariari.create, Ariari.products, Ariari.getPayment).