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

Environment	URL
Production	https://info.payu.in/merchant/postservice.php

Request parameter

Parameter	Description	Value
key	This 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
command	This parameter must have the API command name.	expire_insta_account
hash	This 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
var1	This 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

Key	Description	Sample
merchantVpa `mandatory`	Merchant's VPA is the VPA which needs to be deactivated/blocked permanently	smsplustestqr789@indus
instaProduct `mandatory`	QR generation flag. Fixed value - qr	qr
remarks `optional`	This can be used for audit trail later	Account 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

Parameter	Description
status	This 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
msg	The 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"
}