Wallet
CBE Birr Receipt Check
CBE Birr is the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia's mobile wallet service. CBE Birr receipts require the transaction reference and the payer's phone number for verification.
Help us add CBE Birr
CBE Birr checks are not live yet. One real receipt link is enough for us to build and test the parser.
Private. Sent only to the maintainers, used to build the parser, deleted after it ships.
Required information
- Receipt number (required)
- Payer phone (2519XXXXXXXX) (required)
Reference number format
Alphanumeric transaction reference
Example: CB12345678
How to verify CBE Birr with cheki
- Get the transaction reference from the customer's CBE Birr receipt
- Get the payer's phone number (format: 2519XXXXXXXXX)
- cheki fetches the receipt from CBE Birr's public endpoint
How CBE Birr receipt verification works
The CBE Birr receipt endpoint is: https://cbepay1.cbe.com.et/aureceipt?TID={REFERENCE}&PH={PAYER_PHONE}
Placeholders, error shapes and gotchas are in the CBE Birr endpoint reference.
This is a public URL that returns a HTML page containing the official transaction data. No authentication is required.
Who uses CBE Birr verification
- Merchants verifying CBE Birr payments
- Businesses reconciling CBE Birr deposits
- Apps integrating CBE Birr payment verification
Verifying CBE Birr via API
cheki provides a free REST API for CBE Birr verification:
POST https://cheki.et/api/verify
Request body: { "bank": "cbebirr", "reference": "CB12345678" }
See the API documentation for full details.