Data standards

Money & timestamps

Two boring details that catch every integration off-guard at least once.

Money#

Always minor units. NGN is in kobo; 1500000 means ₦15,000.00. Display formatting belongs in your client, not the API.

Pure ISO-8601 UTC for stored timestamps. Local-time fields (e.g. an appointment in Lagos) include the offset explicitly.

json

{
  "created_at":       "2026-06-01T12:14:09Z",
  "effective_date":   "2026-06-01",
  "appointment_at":   "2026-06-12T10:00:00+01:00"
}