API reference

Akara exposes an inbound endpoint to create deposit requests and signed outbound webhooks for state changes. All requests and responses are JSON.

Base URL & authentication

Endpoints live under your Supabase Edge Functions host. The exact URL is shown in Dashboard → Integrations:

https://<your-project>.supabase.co/functions/v1

Authenticate inbound requests with the API key from Dashboard → Integrations:

Authorization: Bearer akara_YOUR_API_KEY

Keys are stored only as a SHA-256 hash — Akara cannot recover a lost key, so regenerate it if it leaks. Regenerating immediately invalidates the previous key.

Create a deposit request (inbound)

Have your PMS create a deposit request. Akara emails the guest a secure approval link and shows the request in the merchant dashboard.

POST /functions/v1/pms-webhook

Request body

Responses

Idempotency

Pass a stable booking_id. If a deposit request already exists for the same workspace and booking_id, Akara returns 200 with the existing deposit_request_id instead of creating a duplicate. Retries are therefore safe.

Example

curl -X POST "https://YOUR_PROJECT.supabase.co/functions/v1/pms-webhook" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer akara_YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "booking_id": "bk-12345",
    "guest_name": "Jane Doe",
    "guest_email": "jane@example.com",
    "amount": 1500,
    "currency": "AED"
  }'

Webhooks (outbound)

Add an endpoint in Dashboard → Webhooks and Akara POSTs a signed JSON event to your URL whenever a selected event occurs. Verify every request with the secret shown when you created the endpoint.

Headers

Payload

{
  "event": "deposit.approved",
  "created_at": "2026-07-23T12:00:00.000Z",
  "data": { /* the deposit_requests or claims row, snake_case keys */ }
}

Event types

Verifying the signature

1. Take the raw request body, before JSON parsing.
2. Compute HMAC-SHA256 with your secret as the key and the raw body as the message.
3. Hex-encode it and compare against X-Akara-Signature, which is sha256=<hex>.
4. Always compare in constant time.

const crypto = require('crypto')

function verifySignature(rawBody, signatureHeader, secret) {
  const expected = 'sha256=' + crypto.createHmac('sha256', secret).update(rawBody).digest('hex')
  return crypto.timingSafeEqual(Buffer.from(signatureHeader), Buffer.from(expected))
}

app.post('/webhooks/akara', express.raw({ type: 'application/json' }), (req, res) => {
  const sig = req.headers['x-akara-signature']
  if (!verifySignature(req.body.toString(), sig, process.env.AKARA_WEBHOOK_SECRET)) {
    return res.status(401).send('Invalid signature')
  }
  res.status(200).send('OK')
})

import hmac, hashlib

def verify_signature(raw_body: bytes, signature_header: str, secret: str) -> bool:
    expected = 'sha256=' + hmac.new(secret.encode(), raw_body, hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()
    return hmac.compare_digest(signature_header, expected)

Delivery best practices

• Respond 200 within a few seconds so Akara doesn’t retry.
• Verify the signature before trusting the payload.
• Acknowledge first, then process asynchronously.
• Route on X-Akara-Event; treat delivery as at-least-once and dedupe.

Errors & status codes

Errors return a JSON body of the shape { "error": "message" }.