How do I get API keys?

Create keys yourself in the Laces app (owners and admins), and choose what each key can do. The API keys page in the docs walks you through it.

How do participants pay?

Use a hosted page, an embedded modal, or your own UI. From your server, you can also create an order and send a mobile money prompt. Laces processes the payment.

How do I know an order is paid?

Check an order's status, or get told by webhook. Webhooks fire when an order is paid, fails or is refunded, signed so you can verify them.

Can I read who registered?

Yes. Read orders and their registrations (an extra permission you switch on).

Are payments made through the API real?

Yes. Build against your own organization; a paid order is a real payment.

What does the API cost?

No extra charge for the API, and Laces is free for organizers. The per-entry fee is paid by the participant.

Where are the full docs?

Use the Read the API docs button at the top of this page. The docs include an OpenAPI spec and documented rate limits.

For developers

Everything you need to sell your Laces events from your own site, take payments, and know when each order is paid.

Create your event in the Laces app, then read your events and take registrations on your own site. Use a hosted page, an embedded modal, or your own UI.

Create your event, free Read the API docs

Free for organizers
Mobile money & cards
Set up in minutes

Still doing it like this?

Sending buyers off your site to a separate form and a payment number.
Matching mobile money messages to orders by hand.
Refreshing a dashboard to find out whether an order was paid.
Copying registrations from one system into another.

Create. Sell. Run. Get paid.

Step 1: Set up your event in the app

Create your event and its ticket types in the Laces app. Then create keys yourself in the Laces app (owners and admins).

Offer as many ticket types as you need, each with its own price and number of places.
Choose what each key can do.

Young man in a plain grey t-shirt working on a laptop at a table — Photo: Kojo Kwarteng / Unsplash

Step 2: Take registrations on your site

Read your events and take registrations on your own site.

List your organization's events that are on sale.
Read your event's ticket types and the fees a participant pays.
Use a hosted page, an embedded modal, or your own UI. Laces processes the payment.
Create an order and send a mobile money prompt from your server.

Step 3: Know when each order is paid

Check an order's status, or get told by webhook.

Webhooks when an order is paid, fails or is refunded, signed so you can verify them.
Read orders and their registrations (an extra permission you switch on).
Participants get their ticket and receipt by email, with a QR code.
Every ticket has a QR code. Scan it with the Laces app to confirm it's paid and check people in.

Overhead view of a person working on two laptops and a phone on a blue couch — Photo: Dwayne joe / Unsplash

Step 4: Get paid

See who has paid and who hasn't, then withdraw to mobile money or a bank account. Your first withdrawal is free.

No extra charge for the API. The per-entry fee is paid by the participant.
Watch registrations and sales come in live from the Laces app.
No waiting for your event to finish to withdraw what's cleared.

Start here

The API docs, from your first key to your first webhook.

Free for organizers.

Participants pay a small per-entry fee at checkout, on top of your ticket price.

Local · Mobile money

MTN Mobile Money

UGX900

+ 5%

Instant Wallet · withdraw any time

Cards

Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Verve and AfriGO

UGX1,500

+ 5.8%

Standard Wallet · ready the next day

Per ticket sold, paid by the participant, not you.See full pricing

Ways participants pay

Participants pay with the method they already use. MTN MoMo lands in your Instant Wallet and Airtel Money and card land in your Standard Wallet, and you withdraw from either.

Trusted by event organizers

Questions, answered

In the Laces app. Create your event and its ticket types there, then read them from the API: list your organization's events that are on sale, and read your event's ticket types and the fees a participant pays.