A transaction can’t be committed unless we receive a confirmation of change in status from our providers. When we receive a confirmation that the transaction is either successful or failed we create a transaction record, that is why you get transaction not found when you try to find that transaction.
If you wish to find a transaction in short amount of time you could use the events method like this:
$paypackInstance->Events(['ref' => 'f34b7aa8-6b72-4894-bdd3-36f371b28a84']);
This will provide 2 events of this transaction, transaction:created is available after you initiate a transaction and transaction:processed available after we receive confirmation
A sample of your transaction event would look like this:
{
"ref": "f34b7aa8-6b72-4894-bdd3-36f371b28a84",
"limit": 100,
"total": 2,
"transactions": [
{
"event_id": "0065a864-1980-11ed-ac21-dead0062f58a",
"event_kind": "transaction:processed",
"created_at": "2022-08-11T14:15:07.149789Z",
"data": {
"ref": "f34b7aa8-6b72-4894-bdd3-36f371b28a84",
"kind": "CASHIN",
"client": "078xxxxx", //hidden for privacy
"amount": 600,
"provider": "mtn",
"status": "failed",
"created_at": "2022-08-11T14:03:14.163307121Z",
"processed_at": "2022-08-11T14:15:07.148961308Z"
},
"webhooks": []
},
{
"event_id": "576ce82c-197e-11ed-a81a-dead0062f58a",
"event_kind": "transaction:created",
"created_at": "2022-08-11T14:03:14.164049Z",
"data": {
"ref": "f34b7aa8-6b72-4894-bdd3-36f371b28a84",
"kind": "CASHIN",
"client": "078xxxxx", //hidden for privacy
"amount": 600,
"provider": "mtn",
"status": "pending",
"created_at": "2022-08-11T14:03:14.163307121Z"
},
"webhooks": []
}
]
}
Whenever a transaction is processed that is when it can be found using this approach