I was currently asked to implement a back-end feature which was payment verification of the Khalti payment gateway in an API. I did not find enough resources with clear information except for Khalti Docs which helped me understand the basic and logical concepts of integrating Khalti into Web apps. So, I learned and created a reusable Django app named django-khalti  to make it very easy for all of us to integrate Khalti into our Django project.

In this post, I will show you how easy it is to implement Khalti Payment Gateway with Django. I presume the reader knows python, basic Django and API. I will be using the Django Rest Framework and django-khalti to demonstrate the implementation. Integrating Khalti Payment to your Django project requires following steps:

  • First, create a merchant account at Khalti Payment Gateway and get your test secret API keys.
  • Then create payment at the front-end of your application through SDKs provided by Khalti Docs.
    SDKs available are:
    Web SDK
    Android SDK
    iOS SDK
  • These SDKs provide this type of response on success:
    { “idx”: “8xmeJnNXfoVjCvGcZiiGe7”,
    “amount”: 1000,
    “mobile”: “98XXXXX969”,
    “product_identity”: “1234567890”,
    “product_name”: “Dragon”,
    “product_url”: “http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Dragons“, “token”:“QUao9cqFzxPgvWJNi9aKac”
    }
  • Now, pass the amount and token data responded by Khalti SDK on step 3 to our API, which we will create using Django REST framework and django-khalti in this tutorial, in order to verify the payment.

So, let’s get started with the tutorial.

django-khalti is a Django app based on Django REST framework to conduct server-based payment verification of Khalti payment gateway. For each payment, it can verify and return status of payment through transaction token and paid amount.

  • Install the django-khalti and Django REST framework like this:
pip install djangorestframework 
pip install django-khalti
  • Add “django-khalti” and “djangorestframework” to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
 …
‘rest_framework’,
‘khalti’,
]
  • Include the django-khalti URLconf in your project urls.py like this:
path(‘khalti/’, include(‘khalti.urls’)),
  • Add Khalti Merchant API key and Verify URL in your settings.py:
KHALTI_SECRET_KEY = “<your api key>” 
KHALTI_VERIFY_URL = “https://khalti.com/api/v2/payment/verify/"
  • Test your endpoints like this:
POST: /khalti/verifypayment/
body:{
    'token':<transaction token>,
    'amount':<transaction amount>
}
  • You will get responses like this:
On Success:
    {
        'status':True,
        'details':{
                      "idx": "8xmeJnNXfoVjCvGcZiiGe7",
                      "type": {
                        "idx": "e476BL6jt9kgagEmsakyTL",
                        "name": "Wallet payment"
                      },
                      "state": {
                        "idx": "DhvMj9hdRufLqkP8ZY4d8g",
                        "name": "Completed",
                        "template": "is complete"
                      },
                      "amount": 1000,
                      "fee_amount": 30,
                      "refunded": false,
                      "created_on": "2018-20T14:48:08.867125+05:45",
                      "ebanker": null,
                      "user": {
                        "idx": "cCaPkRPQGn5D8StkiqqMJg",
                        "name": "Test User",
                        "mobile": "98XXXXXXX9"
                      },
                      "merchant": {
                        "idx": "UM75Gm2gWmZvA4TPwkwZye",
                        "name": "Test Merchant",
                        "mobile": "testmerchant@khalti.com"
                      }
                }
    }

On Error:
    {
        'status':False,
        'details':{'token': ['Invalid token.']}
    }

That’s all. It’s this easy to integrate Khalti payment gateway into your Django application.

Aashish Dhakal,
CE III/I,
Kathmandu University

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