Insta Deactivate VPA API

The Insta Deactivate VPA API is used to deactivate the VPA embedded in the insta static QR permanently. After the VPA is deactivated using this API, the QR cannot be scanned from any UPI application like Google Pay, PhonePe etc and transactions cannot be done through UPI in future.

Environment

Request parameter

ParameterDescriptionValue
keyThis parameter must contain the merchant key provided by PayU.
Reference: For more information on how to generate the Key and Salt, refer to any of the following:
Production: Generate Production Merchant Key and Sat.
Test: Generate Test Merchant Key and Salt.
Your Test Key
commandThis parameter must have the API command name.expire_insta_account
hashThis parameter must contain the hash value to be calculated at your end. The string used for calculating the hash as follows:

sha512(key|command|var1|salt)
c24ee06c7cf40314ede424
b1fcc2b97a12f97a7d3dd2
06876eef16660eb09fd374
fd82861f66d8152e
var1This parameter must contain the fields in a JSON format. For more information, refer to DESCRIPTION OF VAR1 PARAMETER FIELDS.Refer to SAMPLE VAR1 section.

Fields in var1 parameter description

KeyDescriptionSample
merchantVpa
mandatory
Merchant's VPA is the VPA which needs to be deactivated/blocked permanentlysmsplustestqr789@indus
instaProduct
mandatory
QR generation flag. Fixed value - qrqr
remarks
optional
This can be used for audit trail laterAccount closed

Sample var1

{
  "merchantVpa": "smsplustestqr789@indus",
  "instaProduct": "qr"
}

Sample request

curl --location --request POST 'https://info.payu.in/merchant/postservice.php' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'key=J****g' \
--data-urlencode 'command=expire_insta_account' \
--data-urlencode 'hash=d4d166daed5252d9ae592f65b54b4d38a4f4c1daa24bd5d8902c58960f6556240859398417b1634da3ed4f92f4e88f7c9426e78efdb69aae26ad95d97266f8d5' \
--data-urlencode 'var1={"merchantVpa":"smsplustestqr789@indus","instaProduct":"qr"}'
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("info.payu.in")
payload = 'key=J****g&command=expire_insta_account&hash=d4d166daed5252d9ae592f65b54b4d38a4f4c1daa24bd5d8902c58960f6556240859398417b1634da3ed4f92f4e88f7c9426e78efdb69aae26ad95d97266f8d5&var1=%7B%22merchantVpa%22%3A%22smsplustestqr789%40indus%22%2C%22instaProduct%22%3A%22qr%22%7D'
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}
conn.request("POST", "/merchant/postservice.php", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://info.payu.in/merchant/postservice.php',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => 'key=J****g&command=expire_insta_account&hash=d4d166daed5252d9ae592f65b54b4d38a4f4c1daa24bd5d8902c58960f6556240859398417b1634da3ed4f92f4e88f7c9426e78efdb69aae26ad95d97266f8d5&var1=%7B%22merchantVpa%22%3A%22smsplustestqr789%40indus%22%2C%22instaProduct%22%3A%22qr%22%7D',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
  .build();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "key=J****g&command=expire_insta_account&hash=d4d166daed5252d9ae592f65b54b4d38a4f4c1daa24bd5d8902c58960f6556240859398417b1634da3ed4f92f4e88f7c9426e78efdb69aae26ad95d97266f8d5&var1={\"merchantVpa\":\"smsplustestqr789@indus\",\"instaProduct\":\"qr\"}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://info.payu.in/merchant/postservice.php")
  .method("POST", body)
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  .build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Response parameters

ParameterDescription
statusThis parameter returns the status of web service call. The status can be any of the following:

0 - If web service call failed.
1 - If web service call succeeded
msgThe following message is displayed to indicate that the VPA is permanently blocked now, and the QR cannot be scanned to make any UPI transactions.
merchantVpa deactivated

Sample response

{
  "status": "1",
  "msg": "merchantVpa deactivated"
}