Verify Amhara Bank transaction receipts
Paste an Amhara Bank receipt link or transaction reference. links.et fetches the receipt from transaction.amharabank.com.et and shows you what the bank actually recorded: amount, sender, receiver, reference and time.
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What you can paste for Amhara Bank
- The receipt link
- https://transaction.amharabank.com.et/?trx=FT00FAKE0000
- An FT reference
- FT00FAKE0000
- FT followed by ten characters, twelve in total.
- A BN reference
- BNK00000FAKE0000
- Sixteen characters starting BN.
Where to find it. The Amhara Bank SMS, or the receipt screen in the Amhara Bank app.
The thing that catches people out
An Amhara FT reference is twelve characters, which is exactly what a CBE reference looks like when somebody pastes it without the eight-digit account suffix. links.et tries Amhara first, because Amhara can actually resolve that shape and a suffix-less CBE reference never can. If it comes back empty and the payment was from CBE, ask for the account suffix.
How to check an Amhara Bank payment before you hand over goods
- 1.Get the reference, not a screenshotAsk for the the receipt link. The Amhara Bank SMS, or the receipt screen in the Amhara Bank app. A screenshot is a picture of a claim; the reference is the thing Amhara Bank can confirm.
- 2.Look it upPaste it in, or send it to the API from your own system. links.et fetches the receipt from transaction.amharabank.com.et, which is Amhara Bank's own receipt service.
- 3.Check the amount and the receiverCompare both against your own record. A Amhara Bank receipt that resolves but pays a different account is the most common real fraud, and it is easy to miss when you only read the status line.
- 4.Check it is not a repeatConfirm the reference is not one you have already accepted. A genuine Amhara Bank receipt shown to two sellers verifies for both of them, and nothing on the receipt itself says it has been spent.
Questions about Amhara Bank
How do I verify an Amhara Bank transaction?
Take the the receipt link from the Amhara Bank receipt and paste it into links.et. It fetches the receipt from transaction.amharabank.com.et, which is Amhara Bank's own receipt service, and returns the amount, sender, receiver, reference and timestamp exactly as the bank recorded them. The Amhara Bank SMS, or the receipt screen in the Amhara Bank app.
What does an Amhara Bank transaction reference look like?
Amhara Bank accepts 3 kinds of input: the receipt link, an FT reference (FT followed by ten characters, twelve in total), a BN reference (Sixteen characters starting BN). An example of the first shape is https://transaction.amharabank.com.et/?trx=FT00FAKE0000, which is invented rather than a real reference.
Can an Amhara Bank payment screenshot be faked?
Yes. Any screenshot can be edited, and edited Amhara Bank screenshots are common enough that a picture should never be treated as proof on its own. What cannot be edited is the receipt Amhara Bank publishes at transaction.amharabank.com.et. links.et goes and reads that, so the amount you see is the bank's, not the image's.
Why did my Amhara Bank lookup come back empty?
An Amhara FT reference is twelve characters, which is exactly what a CBE reference looks like when somebody pastes it without the eight-digit account suffix. links.et tries Amhara first, because Amhara can actually resolve that shape and a suffix-less CBE reference never can. If it comes back empty and the payment was from CBE, ask for the account suffix.
Is Amhara Bank verification down?
links.et probes transaction.amharabank.com.et every few minutes from inside Ethiopia and publishes the result at https://links.et/status/amhara, with the history behind it. If that page shows an outage, the bank's receipt service is unreachable and no verification tool can read it, including this one. Payments made during an outage still verify normally once it clears.