Integrating Currency Conversion

Paysera offers a secure API that lets you make currency conversions inside Paysera account.

Step 1. Calculation request (optional)

How to calculate a currency conversion rate using the Paysera API, without actually performing the conversion transaction.

GET https://wallet.paysera.com/rest/v1/currency-conversion

Parameters

Parameters are passed in the query string.

More about available parameters can be found in here: Currency Conversion.

Example requests

GET /rest/v1/currency-conversion?from_currency=EUR&to_currency=USD&from_amount=150 HTTP/1.1
Host: wallet.paysera.com
User-Agent: Paysera WalletApi PHP library
Authorization: MAC id="wkVd93h2uS", ts="1343811600", nonce="nQnNaSNyubfPErjRO55yaaEYo9YZfKHN", mac="KwCRgR3O9cWGni/fkUPjVBLfl5cCURgLHIc7yppjFHw="

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8

{
    "from_currency": "EUR",
    "to_currency": "USD",
    "from_amount": 150,
    "from_amount_decimal": "1.50",
    "to_amount": 200,
    "to_amount_decimal": "2.00"
}

Step 2. Converting currency

This step handles exchanging your funds from one currency to another.

Currency conversion request

POST https://wallet.paysera.com/rest/v1/currency-conversion

Error codes

not_found

account was not found by given ID

no_rights

user has no needed permissions to execute currency conversions in this account

not_enough_funds

there is not enough funds to perform this operation

limits_exceeded

currency conversion limits were exceeded

expectation_failed

conversion price or result did not match expectations (provided by max_from_amount or min_to_amount parameters)

Example request

POST /rest/v1/currency-conversion HTTP/1.1
Host: wallet.paysera.com
Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
User-Agent: Paysera WalletApi PHP library
Authorization: MAC id="wkVd93h2uS", ts="1343811600", nonce="nQnNaSNyubfPErjRO55yaaEYo9YZfKHN", mac="+ZVwDWDVqqhjTeA5t6cW4ZtgcXI9ikDH3oKzzWEHDfI=", ext="body_hash=%2FnvaEOVnCNABstYnlN4pVfw3f6FElVlYw5CNvgYzBls%3D"

{
    "from_currency": "EUR",
    "to_currency": "USD",
    "to_amount": 200,
    "account_number": "EVP0010001000101",
    "max_from_amount": 150
}

Example response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8

{
    "id": 11221,
    "date": 1391686980,
    "from_currency": "EUR",
    "to_currency": "USD",
    "from_amount": 150,
    "from_amount_decimal": "1.50",
    "to_amount": 200,
    "to_amount_decimal": "2.00",
    "account_number": "EVP0010001000101"
}