April 18, 2025

Integrating esewa payment gateway | epay

Let’s Integrate and make payment via esewa. There are few steps to consider when using the esewa payment gateway integration which we will demistify in this article. Let’s start with the practical example, Live_demo and source_code, and docs are available on esewa developer.

The stack

The entire stack includes the following components:

Hono.js & Hono JSX Middleware
Htmx as the client-side framework.
eSewa ( Epay )
Drizzle ORM for database interactions.
React components for front-end rendering.
Tailwind CSS for styling and design
Cloudflare D1
Cloudflare Workers
Bun, Zod and more

Esewa Test Credential

eSewa ID: 9806800001/2/3/4/5
Password: Nepal@123 MPIN: 1122 (for application only)
Token:123456

Setting up Backend

I won’t be going deep in these tech stacks and more on the setup, I will focus more on the simple basic route, and in the payment integration flow.

import { Hono } from 'hono';
import schema from '../drizzle';
import CryptoJS from 'crypto-js';
import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/d1';
import Layout from '../components/layout';

Now, we have imported all the required components.

export const secret = '8gBm/:&EnhH.1/q'; // Secret provided by Esewa
 
const esewa = new Hono();
 
// Webhook route for payment verification
esewa.post('/webhook', async c => {
	return c.json({ result: 'Payment done' });
});
 
// Handle payment failure
esewa.get('/failure', c =>
	c.html(
		<Layout>
			<h1>Payment Failed</h1>
			<p>Please try again</p>
		</Layout>,
	),
);

This is the webhook route where you can verify the payment, or do bunch of others thing that you like.

// Display the payment form
esewa.get('/', async c => {
	const db = drizzle(c.env.DB);
	const [products] = await db.select().from(schema.products).limit(1);
	return c.html(<ESewa products={products} />);
});

here, we have create the main route which will render the payment form, and also fetching the single product data from the server and passing it to client, but for in your real world scenario you can fetch the actual order data from your database.

// Payment verification route
esewa.get('/verify', async c => {
	const token = c.req.query('data');
	if (!token) return c.json({ result: 'Missing token' });
 
	const decodedData = Buffer.from(token, 'base64').toString('utf-8');
	const data = JSON.parse(decodedData);
	const signedFieldNames = data.signed_field_names.split(',');
 
	const message = signedFieldNames
		.map(field => `${field}=${data[field]}`)
		.join(',');
 
	const hmac = CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(message, secret);
	const signature = CryptoJS.enc.Base64.stringify(hmac);
 
	if (signature === data.signature) {
		return c.html(
			<Layout>
				<h1>Payment Success</h1>
				<span>Transaction ID: {data.transaction_uuid}</span>
				<span>Status: {data.status}</span>
			</Layout>,
		);
	} else {
		return c.json({ result: 'Invalid signature' });
	}
});
 
export default esewa;

How Payment Verification Works

After the user is redirected back to your site (via the /verify route), we check the validity of the payment using HMAC signatures. The server verifies the payment details against the eSewa signature to ensure no tampering.

Transaction UUID is generated uniquely for each transaction. Signatures are created using the product and transaction details, ensuring that data hasn’t been modified during the process.

So here is the simple fn for creating the signature.

import CryptoJS from 'crypto-js';
 
export const createSignature = (data: {
	amount: number;
	tax_amount: number;
	transaction_uuid: string;
	product_code: string;
}) => {
	const secret = '8gBm/:&EnhH.1/q';
	// total_amount,transaction_uuid,product_code
	const message = `total_amount=${
		data.amount + data.tax_amount
	},transaction_uuid=${data.transaction_uuid},product_code=${
		data.product_code
	}`;
	const hmac = CryptoJS.HmacSHA256(message, secret);
	const signature = CryptoJS.enc.Base64.stringify(hmac);
	return signature;
};

Client-Side Implementation

On the front end, we’ll render the payment form and submit the necessary data to the eSewa API. We will also handle generating the signature required for secure transactions.

export default function Esewa({ products }: { products: ProductType }) {
	const url = 'https://api.nischal-dahal.com.np';
 
	const transactionUuid = uuidv4();
	const signature = createSignature({
		amount: products.price,
		tax_amount: Math.floor(products.price * 0.1),
		transaction_uuid: transactionUuid,
		product_code: 'EPAYTEST',
	});
 
	return (
		<Layout>
			<div>
				<br />
				<h1 className="mb-6 text-2xl font-bold text-green-500">
					Payment With Esewa
				</h1>
 
				<form
					className="flex w-full max-w-md flex-col gap-4"
					action="https://rc-epay.esewa.com.np/api/epay/main/v2/form"
					method="post"
				>
					<div className="flex gap-4">
						<label htmlFor="product-name">Name</label>
						<h1 id="product-name">{products.name}</h1>
						<input
							id="transaction_uuid"
							name="transaction_uuid"
							value={transactionUuid}
						/>
						<input id="amount" name="amount" value={products.price} />
						<input
							id="tax_amount"
							name="tax_amount"
							value={Math.floor(products.price * 0.1)}
						/>
						<input id="total_amount" name="total_amount" value={110} />
						<input id="product_code" name="product_code" value="EPAYTEST" />
						<input
							id="product_service_charge"
							name="product_service_charge"
							value={0}
						/>
 
						<input
							id="product_delivery_charge"
							name="product_delivery_charge"
							value={0}
							readOnly
						/>
						<input
							id="success_url"
							name="success_url"
							value={`${url}/esewa/verify`}
						/>
 
						<input
							id="failure_url"
							name="failure_url"
							value={`${url}/esewa/failure`}
						/>
 
						<input
							name="signed_field_names"
							value="total_amount,transaction_uuid,product_code"
						/>
 
						<input name="signature" value={signature} />
					</div>
					<button type="submit">Submit Payment</button>
 
					<div id="result"></div>
				</form>
			</div>
			<script type="text/template" id="product-template"></script>
		</Layout>
	);
}

Status Check

https://uat.esewa.com.np/api/epay/transaction/status/?product_code=EPAYTEST&total_amount=100&transaction_uuid=123

Conclusion

This blog has demonstrated how to integrate the eSewa payment gateway with a modern stack using Hono.js, Axios, and React for front-end rendering. The integration handles product display, secure payment processing, and transaction verification.