Virtual Payment Address (VPA) Validation

In UPI collect flow, the customers enter Virtual Payment Address (VPA) to make the payment. You can confirm the validity of VPA by sending an API request to Razorpay.

/payments/validate/vpa

 Request Response
Copycurl -u [YOUR_KEY_ID]:[YOUR_KEY_SECRET] \
-X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/payments/validate/vpa \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
      "vpa": "gauravkumar@exampleupi"
}'
Copy{
  "vpa": "gauravkumar@exampleupi",
  "success": true,
  "customer_name": "Gaurav Kumar"
}

Request Parameter🔗

vpa mandatory: string The virtual payment address (VPA) you want to validate. For example, gauravkumar@exampleupi.

Response Parameters🔗

vpa

string The virtual payment address (VPA) sent as the request attribute. In this case, gauravkumar@exampleupi.

success

boolean Indicates whether the VPA exists. Possible values:

true - The VPA exists.
false - The VPA does not exist.

customer_name

string The name linked to the VPA. For example, Gaurav Kumar. Appears only when the value of success is true.