curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "amount": 50000,
  "currency": "NGN",
  "title": "Payment for Order #1234",
  "description": "Complete your order payment",
  "customer_email": "hansen@gmail.com",
  "first_name": "Billy",
  "last_name": "James",
  "expires_in_minutes": 30,
  "success_url": "<string>",
  "cancel_url": "<string>",
  "metadata": {
    "order_id": "ord_xyz"
  }
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions"

payload = {
    "amount": 50000,
    "currency": "NGN",
    "title": "Payment for Order #1234",
    "description": "Complete your order payment",
    "customer_email": "hansen@gmail.com",
    "first_name": "Billy",
    "last_name": "James",
    "expires_in_minutes": 30,
    "success_url": "<string>",
    "cancel_url": "<string>",
    "metadata": { "order_id": "ord_xyz" }
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    amount: 50000,
    currency: 'NGN',
    title: 'Payment for Order #1234',
    description: 'Complete your order payment',
    customer_email: 'hansen@gmail.com',
    first_name: 'Billy',
    last_name: 'James',
    expires_in_minutes: 30,
    success_url: '<string>',
    cancel_url: '<string>',
    metadata: {order_id: 'ord_xyz'}
  })
};

fetch('https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'amount' => 50000,
    'currency' => 'NGN',
    'title' => 'Payment for Order #1234',
    'description' => 'Complete your order payment',
    'customer_email' => 'hansen@gmail.com',
    'first_name' => 'Billy',
    'last_name' => 'James',
    'expires_in_minutes' => 30,
    'success_url' => '<string>',
    'cancel_url' => '<string>',
    'metadata' => [
        'order_id' => 'ord_xyz'
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"amount\": 50000,\n  \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n  \"title\": \"Payment for Order #1234\",\n  \"description\": \"Complete your order payment\",\n  \"customer_email\": \"hansen@gmail.com\",\n  \"first_name\": \"Billy\",\n  \"last_name\": \"James\",\n  \"expires_in_minutes\": 30,\n  \"success_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"cancel_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {\n    \"order_id\": \"ord_xyz\"\n  }\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"amount\": 50000,\n  \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n  \"title\": \"Payment for Order #1234\",\n  \"description\": \"Complete your order payment\",\n  \"customer_email\": \"hansen@gmail.com\",\n  \"first_name\": \"Billy\",\n  \"last_name\": \"James\",\n  \"expires_in_minutes\": 30,\n  \"success_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"cancel_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {\n    \"order_id\": \"ord_xyz\"\n  }\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.example.com/api/v1/payment-sessions")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"amount\": 50000,\n  \"currency\": \"NGN\",\n  \"title\": \"Payment for Order #1234\",\n  \"description\": \"Complete your order payment\",\n  \"customer_email\": \"hansen@gmail.com\",\n  \"first_name\": \"Billy\",\n  \"last_name\": \"James\",\n  \"expires_in_minutes\": 30,\n  \"success_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"cancel_url\": \"<string>\",\n  \"metadata\": {\n    \"order_id\": \"ord_xyz\"\n  }\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "success": false,
  "status": 400,
  "message": "Validation failed.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-17T12:00:00.000Z",
  "errors": [
    "amount must not be less than 0"
  ]
}

{
  "success": false,
  "status": 400,
  "message": "Validation failed.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-17T12:00:00.000Z",
  "errors": [
    "amount must not be less than 0"
  ]
}