Introduction

At a high level, onboarding to a Mojaloop-based scheme requires a Digital Financial Service Provider (DFSP) to focus their efforts around the following major milestones:

  • Integration of their Core Backend with the Mojaloop Switch on the API level (this involves both coding and testing).

  • Connecting to Mojaloop pre-production and production environments following rigorous Mojaloop security requirements.

Payment Manager for Mojaloop provides functionality to simplify both of these steps. This document provides details about API-level integration.

The following diagram provides a high-level view of the integration between a Mojaloop Real-Time Payment System and a DFSP’s Core Backend.

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Figure 1. Payment Manager – system architecture

Payment Manager provides the following components:

  • Core Connector: Integrates a DFSP’s Core Backend to Payment Manager as an "adapter" for both parts so communication is possible between them. It uses standard templates, the majority of them written in Apache Camel, a declarative language for integration engineers that does not require writing code from scratch. There is a ready-made Core Connector template available for DFSPs to simplify their development effort.

  • Mojaloop Connector: Comes with the following key components:

    • A Mojaloop-SDK, which provides:

      • Mojaloop-compliant security components

      • HTTP header processing capabilities

      • A simplified use-case-oriented version of the Mojaloop FSPIOP API. DFSPs will be talking to this API, leveraging Core Connector.

    • A Connection Manager Client, which simplifies and automates certificate creation, signing and exchange, as well as the configuration of the connections required to different environments.

  • Portals: Provide dashboards for monitoring transactions and service status. They also allow DFSPs to manage their security keys, certificates, and endpoint configuration required for connecting to a Mojaloop-based scheme in a guided way.