External Transaction Status
Fetches a single ledger transaction owned by the merchant backend.
GET
/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{transaction_id}Merchant HMACUse your enabled merchant account. Examples run on your server, never in this documentation.
Authentication
Use merchant HMAC headers and sign the exact path, query and raw body.
See authentication.
Workflow notes
- This is the HMAC endpoint merchants should use for server-to-server recovery polling.
- For payout-only flows, /api/v1/payouts/external/status/{transaction_id} returns the same ledger state with payout wording.
Before you send
Check the field labels and use your enabled merchant account. Examples illustrate the API contract; confirm deployment-specific limits and error handling before launch. This page never sends a request.
Request example
Choose Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java or cURL. Run signed requests on your backend. PHP, Ruby and Java include signing directly. Java requires JDK 17 or newer.
Signing helpers: Node.js · Python. cURL shows the request shape; generate its signature first.
import { signedHeaders } from './signing.mjs';
const transaction_id = process.env.ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID;
if (!transaction_id) throw new Error('Set ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID to the returned identifier');
const path = `/api/v1/transactions/external/status/${encodeURIComponent(transaction_id)}`;
const query = '';
const body = ''; // GET requests have no body
const headers = signedHeaders({
method: 'GET', path, query, body,
keyId: process.env.ZYTEPE_API_KEY_ID,
secret: process.env.ZYTEPE_API_SECRET,
});
const url = 'https://api.zytepe.com' + path + (query ? '?' + query : '');
const response = await fetch(url, { method: 'GET', headers });
if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Request failed: HTTP ' + response.status);
const result = await response.json();
// Store the returned identifiers securely. Do not log customer data.import json, os
from urllib.parse import quote
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen
from zytepe_signing import signed_headers
transaction_id = os.environ['ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID']
path = f'/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{quote(transaction_id, safe="")}'
query = ''
body = '' # GET requests have no body
headers = signed_headers(
method='GET', path=path, query=query, body=body,
key_id=os.environ['ZYTEPE_API_KEY_ID'],
secret=os.environ['ZYTEPE_API_SECRET'],
)
url = 'https://api.zytepe.com' + path + ('?' + query if query else '')
request = Request(url, method='GET', headers=headers)
with urlopen(request, timeout=30) as response:
result = json.load(response)
# Store identifiers securely; handle HTTPError/URLError in your application.<?php
// PHP 8+ with the cURL extension. Run on your server.
function envRequired(string $name): string {
$value = getenv($name);
if ($value === false || $value === '') throw new RuntimeException('Set ' . $name);
return $value;
}
$path = '/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{transaction_id}';
$path = str_replace('{transaction_id}', rawurlencode(envRequired('ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID')), $path);
$query = '';
$body = ''; // No body for GET
$headers = [];
$key = envRequired('ZYTEPE_API_KEY_ID');
$secret = envRequired('ZYTEPE_API_SECRET');
$timestamp = (string) time();
$nonce = bin2hex(random_bytes(16));
$canonical = implode("\n", ['GET', $path, $query, $timestamp, $nonce, hash('sha256', $body)]);
$signature = hash_hmac('sha256', $canonical, $secret);
$headers = ["X-API-KEY-ID: $key", "X-API-TIMESTAMP: $timestamp", "X-API-NONCE: $nonce", "X-API-SIGNATURE: $signature"];
$url = 'https://api.zytepe.com' . $path . ($query !== '' ? '?' . $query : '');
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => $headers,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if ($response === false) throw new RuntimeException(curl_error($ch));
$status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if ($status >= 400) throw new RuntimeException('HTTP ' . $status);
$result = json_decode($response, true, 512, JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR);
// Store returned identifiers securely. Recover uncertain payments before retrying.require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'
require 'openssl'
require 'securerandom'
path = '/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{transaction_id}'
path = path.gsub('{transaction_id}', URI.encode_www_form_component(ENV.fetch('ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID')).gsub('+', '%20'))
query = ''
body = '' # No body for GET
headers = {}
key = ENV.fetch('ZYTEPE_API_KEY_ID')
secret = ENV.fetch('ZYTEPE_API_SECRET')
timestamp = Time.now.to_i.to_s
nonce = SecureRandom.hex(16)
canonical = ['GET', path, query, timestamp, nonce, OpenSSL::Digest::SHA256.hexdigest(body)].join("\n")
signature = OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest('SHA256', secret, canonical)
headers = { 'X-API-KEY-ID' => key, 'X-API-TIMESTAMP' => timestamp,
'X-API-NONCE' => nonce, 'X-API-SIGNATURE' => signature }
uri = URI('https://api.zytepe.com' + path + (query.empty? ? '' : '?' + query))
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, headers)
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true, open_timeout: 10, read_timeout: 30) do |http|
http.request(request)
end
raise 'HTTP ' + response.code unless response.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
# Store returned identifiers securely. Recover uncertain payments before retrying.// Java 17+. Save as ZytePeExample.java and run on your server.
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.*;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.util.HexFormat;
import java.util.UUID;
import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
public class ZytePeExample {
private static String env(String name) {
String value = System.getenv(name);
if (value == null || value.isBlank()) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Set " + name);
return value;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String path = "/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{transaction_id}";
path = path.replace("{transaction_id}", URLEncoder.encode(env("ZYTEPE_TRANSACTION_ID"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8).replace("+", "%20"));
String query = "";
String body = ""; // GET requests have no body
var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create(
"https://api.zytepe.com" + path + (query.isEmpty() ? "" : "?" + query)))
.timeout(Duration.ofSeconds(30));
String key = env("ZYTEPE_API_KEY_ID");
String secret = env("ZYTEPE_API_SECRET");
String timestamp = Long.toString(Instant.now().getEpochSecond());
String nonce = UUID.randomUUID().toString().replace("-", "");
String bodyHash = HexFormat.of().formatHex(MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256")
.digest(body.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
String canonical = String.join("\n", "GET", path, query, timestamp, nonce, bodyHash);
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
mac.init(new SecretKeySpec(secret.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), "HmacSHA256"));
String signature = HexFormat.of().formatHex(mac.doFinal(canonical.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
request.header("X-API-KEY-ID", key).header("X-API-TIMESTAMP", timestamp)
.header("X-API-NONCE", nonce).header("X-API-SIGNATURE", signature);
request.method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody());
var client = HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10)).build();
var response = client.send(request.build(), HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
if (response.statusCode() < 200 || response.statusCode() >= 300)
throw new IllegalStateException("HTTP " + response.statusCode());
String result = response.body(); // Parse JSON using your application's JSON library.
// Store identifiers securely. Recover uncertain payments before retrying.
}
}curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.zytepe.com/api/v1/transactions/external/status/{transaction_id}' \
--header 'X-API-KEY-ID: <key-id>' \
--header 'X-API-TIMESTAMP: <unix-seconds>' \
--header 'X-API-NONCE: <fresh-nonce>' \
--header 'X-API-SIGNATURE: <signature>'Path, query and headers
transaction_idRequiredpathUse the identifier returned by the corresponding creation operation.
Request body
No request body for GET.
Example response
JSON · response
{
"success": true,
"message": "Transaction status retrieved from ZytePe ledger.",
"data": {
"id": "ca9a58aa-d578-4fc2-a9f4-fb8d090d4b5f",
"internal_ref": "ZY-INT-2042-AX19",
"external_ref": "PAYOUT-2026-00041",
"gateway_ref": "BANKREF98344210",
"amount_gross": "1500.0000",
"amount_fees": "15.0000",
"amount_net": "1485.0000",
"currency": "INR",
"category": "DISBURSEMENT",
"method": "IMPS",
"status": "COMPLETED",
"payee_id": "d965aa45-1952-4749-aa52-2bed21470ffd",
"payee_name": "Aditi Traders",
"failure_reason": null,
"created_at": "2026-05-03T10:42:10.110Z",
"updated_at": "2026-05-03T10:43:18.240Z"
}
}