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Channel Codes

List of banks and their codes​

This endpoint allows the merchant to populate the list of banks and their codes. Banks codes are used as channel codes to identify the bank to which you are sending money to. You can also view the list of channel codes here:

Channel Codes

CodeEntity Name

  • 00 SasaPay
  • 01 KCB
  • 02 Standard Chartered Bank KE
  • 03 Absa Bank
  • 07 NCBA
  • 10 Prime Bank
  • 11 Cooperative Bank
  • 12 National Bank
  • 14 M-Oriental
  • 16 Citibank
  • 18 Middle East Bank
  • 19 Bank of Africa
  • 23 Consolidated Bank
  • 25 Credit Bank
  • 31 Stanbic Bank
  • 35 ABC Bank
  • 36 Choice Microfinance Bank
  • 43 Eco Bank
  • 50 Paramount Universal Bank
  • 51 Kingdom Bank
  • 53 Guaranty Bank
  • 54 Victoria Commercial Bank
  • 55 Guardian Bank
  • 57 I&M Bank
  • 61 HFC Bank
  • 63 DTB
  • 65 Mayfair Bank
  • 66 Sidian Bank
  • 68 Equity Bank
  • 70 Family Bank
  • 72 Gulf African Bank
  • 74 First Community Bank
  • 75 DIB Bank
  • 76 UBA
  • 78 KWFT Bank
  • 89 Stima Sacco
  • 97 Telcom Kenya
  • 63902 MPesa
  • 63903 AirtelMoney
  • 63907 T-Kash

Alt test Endpoint: https://sandbox.sasapay.app/api/v2/waas/channel-codes/

Sample Request
Headers
Key: Authorization
Value: Bearer Q1k2RW5SOGlsYUZnRzNGMQUlDS3VrTFhVV0xScFVHYQ==

Response Parameters​

FieldTypeDescriptionExample
statusCodeStringThis status shows whether the list of channel codes was retrieved successfully or not"statusCode":"0"
messageStringThis is the message associated with the operation."Bank List"
bank_nameStringName of the bank"KCB"
bank_codeStringThis the code assigned to the bank in kenya."1"
Response Sample
{
    "statusCode": "0",
    "message": "Bank List",
    "banks": [
        {
            "bank_name": "KCB",
            "bank_code": "1"
        },
        {
            "bank_name": "Standard Chartered",
            "bank_code": "2"
        }
    ]
}