Quickstart Overview
Start Building with PayVala
The PayVala Quickstart provides a practical starting point for developers integrating authorized applications with the PayVala platform.
Follow the steps in order to understand the integration prerequisites, obtain the required access, select the appropriate environment, authenticate requests, make API calls, test the integration, and prepare for production.
Prepare Your Integration
Review the prerequisites and confirm that your application is ready to integrate with PayVala.
Obtain API Access
Obtain the API access and credentials required for your authorized integration.
Choose an Environment
Select the appropriate environment for development, integration testing, or production operations.
Authenticate Requests
Configure your application to authenticate requests according to the authentication method provided for your integration.
Make Your First API Request
Send a supported API request using the endpoint, headers, parameters, and authentication details provided by PayVala.
Test and Validate
Validate request handling, responses, error handling, and integration behavior in the appropriate test environment.
Prepare for Production
Complete the applicable production-readiness requirements before using the production environment.
Before You Begin
Integration Prerequisites
Before starting development, make sure your team has the required PayVala integration access and understands the API capabilities relevant to your use case.
Actual endpoint, authentication, credential, and environment details should be used exactly as provided during PayVala integration onboarding.
Integration Access
Ensure that the required PayVala integration access has been provisioned for your application.
Application Environment
Prepare the application environment from which your integration will communicate with PayVala.
API Documentation
Review the API documentation for the operations your application needs to perform.
Secure Credential Storage
Store integration credentials and other sensitive configuration securely and do not expose them in client-side code or source repositories.
Get API Access
Obtain Integration Credentials
API access is provided as part of the PayVala integration and onboarding process.
Use only the credentials and access information provided for your authorized application and environment.
Request Integration Access
Contact the appropriate PayVala integration or support team to obtain the access required for your use case.
Receive Credentials
Receive the credentials and configuration information applicable to your integration.
Store Credentials Securely
Keep credentials in secure application configuration or secret-management facilities and never commit secrets to source control.
Verify Access
Confirm that the supplied credentials and environment configuration can be used for the intended integration.
PayVala-specific credential formats, API keys, endpoints, and access procedures should be used exactly as provided during integration onboarding.
Choose Environment
Select the Appropriate Environment
Use the environment that matches the current stage of your integration. Development and integration testing should be completed in the appropriate non-production environment before production use.
Do not use production credentials or production endpoints for development and testing.
Development
Used during application development and internal integration work.
Sandbox
Used for integration testing and developer validation without relying on production operations.
Production
Used for approved live platform operations after the integration is ready for production.
Authentication
Authenticate API Requests
PayVala API requests require the authentication mechanism applicable to the integration. Configure your application according to the authentication details supplied during onboarding.
Authentication credentials must be handled securely and should never be exposed in browser-side code, public repositories, logs, or client-facing responses.
Authentication Configuration
Configure the authentication mechanism and required credentials provided for your integration.
Secure Credential Handling
Protect credentials throughout development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
Request Authorization
Ensure each API request contains the authentication information required by the PayVala API.
Credential Separation
Keep credentials and configuration separated between applicable environments.
The exact PayVala authentication scheme, credential format, and required request headers should be taken from the integration credentials and API documentation provided to your organization.
Make Your First API Request
Send Your First Request
After access and authentication have been configured, use a supported PayVala API operation to validate the basic connectivity and request flow.
Use the exact endpoint, HTTP method, headers, authentication information, and request body specified in the relevant PayVala API documentation.
Select an API Operation
Choose the API operation required for your integration use case.
Prepare the Request
Construct the request using the documented HTTP method, endpoint, headers, parameters, and request body.
Add Authentication
Include the authentication information required by the PayVala API.
Send the Request
Send the request from your authorized application to the appropriate environment.
Inspect the Response
Review the response status and response data to determine whether the operation was processed successfully.
A production API request example will be added here once the PayVala endpoint, authentication scheme, request format, and response contract are confirmed.
Understand the Response
Process API Responses
Your application should evaluate the API response according to the documented response contract for the requested operation.
Do not determine transaction or operation success from a single field unless the API documentation explicitly defines that field as the authoritative result.
HTTP Status
Use the documented HTTP status behavior to determine the general outcome of the request.
Response Body
Parse and validate the response body according to the API operation's documented response schema.
Business Status
Where applicable, evaluate the documented business or transaction status returned by the API.
Error Information
Capture documented error information so the application can respond appropriately.
Handle Errors
Build Reliable Error Handling
API integrations should handle expected HTTP failures, validation errors, authentication failures, temporary communication problems, and documented business-level errors.
Applications should avoid treating every failed request as a permanent failure. The appropriate response depends on the documented error and operation behavior.
Validation Errors
Correct invalid or missing request data according to the API validation response.
Authentication Errors
Verify the configured credentials and authentication information when authentication fails.
Temporary Failures
Handle recoverable communication or service failures according to the applicable API retry rules.
Duplicate Requests
Use the API's documented idempotency or duplicate-request controls where applicable.
Operational Logging
Record sufficient non-sensitive information to troubleshoot failed operations without exposing credentials or secrets.
Error Reference
Use the PayVala Error Codes reference for detailed error-specific handling.
Detailed PayVala error codes and retry behavior should be implemented according to the API and Error Codes documentation.
Test Your Integration
Validate the Integration
Before production use, test the complete integration flow in the appropriate non-production environment.
Testing should verify request construction, authentication, response processing, error handling, duplicate-request behavior, and any applicable event notifications.
Test Authentication
Verify that your application can authenticate requests using the credentials supplied for the test environment.
Test API Requests
Execute the API operations required by your integration and validate the returned responses.
Test Error Handling
Verify that expected validation and operational failures are handled safely.
Test Notifications
Where applicable, validate configured webhook or notification behavior.
Validate Application Behavior
Confirm that your application correctly processes successful, failed, and relevant asynchronous outcomes.
Configure Webhooks
Receive Event Notifications
Where webhook-based notifications are supported for your integration, configure the appropriate webhook endpoint so your application can receive relevant PayVala events automatically.
Webhook handling should be implemented securely and should account for authentication or verification requirements, duplicate deliveries, retries, and event processing rules defined by PayVala.
Webhook Endpoint
Provide an application endpoint capable of receiving supported PayVala webhook events.
Event Processing
Process received events according to the documented event type and payload contract.
Secure Verification
Apply the webhook verification mechanism specified by PayVala before trusting received event data.
Duplicate Handling
Design webhook processing so repeated delivery of the same event does not cause unintended duplicate business operations.
See Developer → Webhooks for the complete webhook configuration, event, payload, verification, retry, and troubleshooting documentation.
Production Readiness
Prepare for Production
Move to production only after the integration has been implemented, tested, reviewed, and approved according to the applicable PayVala onboarding requirements.
Production configuration must use the credentials, endpoints, and security settings specifically provided for the production environment.
Credentials
Confirm that production credentials are configured securely and are separated from non-production credentials.
Environment
Confirm that production endpoints and environment-specific configuration are correctly configured.
Security
Verify that credentials, sensitive data, logs, and application access are protected appropriately.
Error Handling
Confirm that documented errors and operational failures are handled safely.
Webhook Handling
Verify that applicable webhook endpoints and event processing are ready for production.
Operational Readiness
Confirm that monitoring, logging, support procedures, and deployment controls are ready for live operations.
Complete the applicable PayVala onboarding and Go-Live requirements before production activation.
Troubleshooting
Common Integration Checks
When an integration does not behave as expected, start by checking the environment, credentials, request structure, API endpoint, response status, and application logs.
Authentication Failure
Verify that the correct credentials and authentication configuration are being used for the selected environment.
Invalid Request
Compare the request method, endpoint, headers, parameters, and body with the API documentation.
Unexpected Response
Inspect the HTTP status, response body, and documented business status before determining the result.
Webhook Not Received
Verify the configured endpoint, connectivity, webhook configuration, and event-processing logs.
Duplicate Processing
Review request and event handling to ensure repeated requests or notifications are processed safely.
Environment Mismatch
Confirm that credentials and endpoints belong to the same environment.
For detailed errors, refer to Reference → Error Codes and Developer → Webhooks where applicable.
Next Steps
Continue Your Integration
After completing the Quickstart, use the detailed developer documentation for the specific capability your application needs.
API
Explore available PayVala API operations and their request and response contracts.
SDKs
Review supported SDK documentation when an SDK is available for your integration.
Authentication
Review detailed authentication requirements and implementation guidance.
Webhooks
Learn how to configure and process supported event notifications.
Versioning
Understand API versioning and compatibility considerations.
Sandbox
Review sandbox-specific integration and testing guidance.