Hot Recharge

perform airtime topup across all networks, vouchers and zesa recharge with hot-recharge flutter plugin

• ℹ Not an official hot-recharge flutter plugin
• a flutter plugin port of hot-recharge python library and hot-recharge node package

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Plugin installation

• add latest version of hot_recharge to your pubspec.yaml file

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter

  hot_recharge:

Sign Up

• needs a hot recharge co-operate account, sign up here
• or contact hot-recharge for a proper account
• 

Authentication keys

• accessCode := the email address used on registration
• accessPswd := the password of the account used on registration

// import hot-recharge plugin
import 'package:hot_recharge/hot_recharge.dart';

// create api instance
hotRecharge = HotRecharge(
    accessCode: '<your-email>', 
    accessPswd: '<your-pwd>',
    enableLogger: false, // flag to true to enable detailed log while testing, use while testing ONLY
);

Features

• [✔] perfom airtime topup
• [✔] perfom zesa recharge
• [✔] query airtime topup transaction
• [✔] query zesa transaction
• [✔] get account airtime balance
• [✔] get account zesa balance
• [✔] check zesa customer
• [❌] perform evd transaction
• [❌] perform bundle topup
• (...) and more

Performing requests

• all requests returns an instance of ApiResponse response model
• this shows how to perform api requests to hot-recharge services

topup number

// supports both mobile and '08xxxx...' numbers
final bal = await hotRecharge.topupNumber(1.50, '07xxxxxx');

// check response status
if (bal.rechargeResponse == RechargeResponse.SUCCESS) {
      final PinlessRecharge result = bal.apiResponse;
      showSnackbar(message: result.replyMsg);
    }

    // there was a problem
    else {
      showSnackbar(message: 'failed to sent airtime: ${bal.message}');
    }

query transaction

// query a previous transaction agent reference for reconcilliation
final result = await hotRecharge.queryTopupTransaction('previous-agent-reference');

print(result);

Custom messages

• the api supports sending OPTIONAL custom messages to the user as confirmation messages
• you can customize how the message will arrive like on the client | user side
• certain placeholders have to be used and total message length should be less than 150 chars

---

• For airtime topup

custom Message place holders to use and their representation on end user:

• %AMOUNT% - $xxx.xx

• %INITIALBALANCE% - $xxx.xx

• %FINALBALANCE% - $xxx.xx

• %TXT% - xxx texts

• %DATA% - xxx MB

• %COMPANYNAME% - as defined by Customer on the website www.hot.co.zw

• %ACCESSNAME% - defined by Customer on website – Teller or Trusted User or branch name `

• example

  final mesg = 'Recharge of \$ %AMOUNT% is successful.\nThe best %COMPANYNAME%!';
  
  var response = await hotRecharge.topupNumber(
      2.0,
      '07xxxxxxxx',
      customMessage: mesg,
    );
  
  print(response);

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• For zesa transactions

custom Message place holders to use and their representation on end user:

• %AMOUNT% - $xxx.xx
• %KWH% - Unit in Kilowatt Hours(Kwh)
• %ACOUNTNAME% - Account holdername of meter number
• %METERNUMBER% - meter number
• %COMPANYNAME% - as defined by Customer on the website www.hot.co.zw

Note on Zesa Recharges

Requirements

• A method for Purchasing ZESA Tokens
• It is a ZESA requirement that any purchase must be verified. As such please ensure that you use the checkCustomerDetail() method

    final result = await api.checkZesaCustomer(meterNumber);

    // check response status
    if (result.rechargeResponse == RechargeResponse.SUCCESS) {
        ZesaCustomerDetail details = result.apiResponse;
        var customerInfo = details.customerInfo;

        // prompt for user to verify info obtained from api
        zesaUserPromptDialog(message: customerInfo.customerName);
    }

    // there was a problem
    else {
      showSnackbar(message: 'failed to check zesa user: ${result.message}');
    }

• and prompt the customer to confirm the details before calling this method (api.rechargeZesa(...)).
• There is a new transaction state specifically for ZESA that is Pending verification indicated by reply code 4 (RechargeResponse.PENDING). Transactions in this state can result in successful transactions after a period of time once ZESA complete transaction.
• You must call Query ZESA method (api.queryZesaTransaction(...)) periodically until a permanent resolution of the transaction occurs. This polling of a pending transaction should not exceed more that 4 request a minute. Resending of transactions that have not yet failed can result in the duplication of transaction and lose of funds.
• Please note ZESA does not allow refunds so the cost of any errors cannot be recovered.

Support 🤿

• A little support can go a long way

• For general questions and discussions please make use of github discussions here

• You can help by making PR on any changes you would like to contribute to

• Fork or star this repo, it will help us lot

• With 💙 from FlutterDevZW by @DonnC & @iamngoni

Getting Started

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