How to Integrate iPay Africa APIs into your Strapi Application

An extensive tutorial demonstrates how to build an online bookstore using Strapi and iPay Africa APIs, enabling book purchases and downloads after successful transactions. The guide details setting up a Strapi server, creating a Vue.js front-end, and implementing secure payment processing with iPay’s STK push API, integrating features such as custom routes, controller extensions, and JWT-based authentication for the Vue application. It covers database schema design for storing book and sale details, ensuring secure payment handling with iPay’s PCI DSS standards, and facilitating regular payment automation through Strapi Cron Jobs. The tutorial also includes steps for setting up the Vue application with state management using Vuex and vue-persistedstate, and dynamic routing for accessing book details and handling user authentication. It concludes by providing resources for accessing the project’s source code and engaging with the Strapi community on Discord for further discussion and support.