Wave Money

Wave Money's payment gateway sends the customer to a Wave payment page to pay with their WavePay wallet.

Call	What it does	Returns
wave.initiate(data)	Redirect to Wave's payment page	RedirectPayment
wave.handle_callback(request)	Verify the callback	PaymentCallback

Wave Money has no status API in this package: the callback is the only payment result.

AsyncWaveMoney has the same methods: await initiate(); handle_callback() stays a plain call.

Responses shows what Wave Money puts in each result.

How it works

Wave sends the customer back to your return URL and posts the result to your callback URL separately.

Wave Money: payment request, authenticate, result

Initiating a Payment

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, redirect
from python_myanmar_payments import (
    WaveMoney,
    WaveMoneyConfig,
    WaveMoneyItem,
    WaveMoneyPaymentData,
)

from shop.models import Order

wave = WaveMoney(
    WaveMoneyConfig(
        merchant_id="...",
        secret_key="...",
        merchant_name="My Shop",
        time_to_live_seconds=300,
        timeout_seconds=30,
    )
)

def wave_checkout(request, order_id: int):
    order = get_object_or_404(Order, pk=order_id)

    data = WaveMoneyPaymentData(
        order_id=f"ORDER_{order.id}",
        callback_url="https://shop.test/payments/wave/callback",
        return_url=f"https://shop.test/orders/{order.id}",
        description=f"Order #{order.id}",
        items=[
            WaveMoneyItem(name="Product A", amount=6000),
            WaveMoneyItem(name="Product B", amount=4000),
        ],
    )

    payment = wave.initiate(data)

    # Store data.merchant_reference_id with the order: initiate() filled it in.

    return redirect(payment.url)

WaveMoneyPaymentData

Field	Type	Required	Rules
order_id	str	Yes	Your order ID. One order can have several payment attempts
callback_url	str	Yes	Absolute http or https URL that Wave posts the result to. Wave may require HTTPS with a CA-issued certificate in production
return_url	str	Yes	Absolute http or https URL Wave sends the customer back to. Not proof of payment
description	str	Yes	Shown to the customer
items	Sequence[WaveMoneyItem]	Yes	At least one item, as a list or tuple
amount	Amount | int | str | Decimal	No	Whole kyat, greater than 0 (Wave doesn't accept decimals). Unset charges the sum of the items. Wave only accepts MMK
merchant_reference_id	str	No	Unique ID of this attempt. Unset or empty means a random ID

WaveMoneyItem(name, amount) has a name and an amount in whole kyat, greater than 0. The items are summed with exact int arithmetic, never floats; WaveMoney.resolved_amount(data) returns the total that will be charged as an Amount (None when an item amount is invalid).

Merchant Reference ID

Wave rejects a reused merchant_reference_id (409 Record already exists), so every attempt, including a retry of the same order, needs a new one. Leave it empty to get a fresh random ID, and store it: Wave marks orderId as optional in callbacks, while merchantReferenceId is always present. initiate() writes the generated ID to data.merchant_reference_id once data passes validation, so keep a reference to the object you pass.

Handling Callbacks

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from python_myanmar_payments import CallbackRequest, SignatureVerificationError

# POST /payments/wave/callback
@csrf_exempt
def wave_callback(request):
    callback_request = CallbackRequest(
        body=request.body,
        headers=request.headers,
        query=request.META.get("QUERY_STRING", ""),
    )
    try:
        callback = wave.handle_callback(callback_request)
    except SignatureVerificationError:
        return HttpResponse("invalid callback", status=400)

    if callback.is_successful():
        # callback.order_id is your order_id
        # callback.raw["merchantReferenceId"] is the attempt's reference
        # callback.gateway_reference is Wave's transactionId
        ...

    ack = callback.acknowledgement
    return HttpResponse(ack.body, status=ack.status, headers=ack.headers)

callback.order_id falls back to merchantReferenceId when Wave's orderId is missing, null or empty.

Responses

What Wave Money puts in each field. See Results and PaymentCallback & Status for the full classes. A field the gateway didn't send is None. raw holds plain Python values; every JSON number is kept as its exact text in a str (1000.50 stays "1000.50"), never a float.

initiate() → RedirectPayment

Field	Wave Money value
flow	PaymentFlow.REDIRECT
order_id	Your data.order_id
url	{authenticate_url}/authenticate?transaction_id=… (URL-encoded), e.g. https://payments.wavemoney.io/authenticate?transaction_id=…
gateway_reference	Wave transaction_id. Always set
raw	Wave's /payment response: message (success), transaction_id

The attempt's merchant_reference_id is not on the result: read it from data.merchant_reference_id.

handle_callback() → PaymentCallback

Field / Method	Wave Money value
order_id	Wave orderId, falling back to merchantReferenceId when it is missing, null or empty
status	status mapped, see Statuses
gateway_status	Wave status, trimmed, e.g. PAYMENT_CONFIRMED
gateway_reference	Wave transactionId
amount	Wave amount, e.g. 10000
raw	The verified body: status, merchantId, orderId, merchantReferenceId, frontendResultUrl, backendResultUrl, initiatorMsisdn, amount, timeToLiveSeconds, paymentDescription, currency, additionalField1–5, transactionId, paymentRequestId, requestTime, hashValue
acknowledgement	HTTP 200, empty body, Content-Type: text/plain

Statuses

Only PAYMENT_CONFIRMED means the customer paid.

Wave status	PaymentStatus
PAYMENT_CONFIRMED	SUCCESSFUL
INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE	PENDING
ACCOUNT_LOCKED, BILL_COLLECTION_FAILED	FAILED
PAYMENT_REQUEST_CANCELLED	CANCELED
TRANSACTION_TIMED_OUT, SCHEDULER_TRANSACTION_TIMED_OUT	EXPIRED
anything else	UNKNOWN

SCHEDULER_TRANSACTION_TIMED_OUT arrives up to 15 minutes after the time-to-live ends.

Errors

Call	Raises	When
initiate()	InvalidPaymentDataError	WaveMoney.validate(data) fails. Nothing is sent and data is left untouched. Item errors use items.0.amount keys
initiate()	ApiError	Wave answers with an HTTP error, a message other than success, or no transaction_id
handle_callback()	SignatureVerificationError	hashValue doesn't match, or a hashed field holds an object or a list

AsyncWaveMoney raises the same errors. http_status tells Wave's rejections apart: 400 invalid hash, 404 unknown merchant, 409 reused reference, 422 validation (gateway_code is VALIDATION_ERROR). When Wave can't be reached or the request times out, initiate() raises ApiError with the original httpx error as __cause__.