Alternative payment methods (backend version)

This integration reflects to the backend version of our Alternative Payment Methods integration. The recommended integration for APMs with Smart Router is to make use of our front-end SDKs.

Fetch the list of Alternative Payment Methods

You can dynamically fetch the list of all the alternative payment methods you have enabled in Smart Router for display to your users. You’ll need to pass along the id field of the configurations you display to your users, as this will be needed later on to redirect your customer to the selected APM.

Additionnaly, you can expand the gateway field of the Gateway Configuration object to get some helpful fields, such as the name of the APM, or a handy logo to be displayed on your checkout pages.

cURL Python Ruby PHP Go Node.js

curl -X GET https://api.processout.com/gateway-configurations?filter=alternative-payment-methods&expand_merchant_accounts=true \
    -u test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x:key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB

var ProcessOut = require("processout");
var client = new ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x",
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

client.newGatewayConfiguration().all({
    filter:                   "alternative-payment-methods",
    expand_merchant_accounts: true
}).then(function(confs) {
    // Iterate over the available confs and display them

}, function(err) {
    // An error occured

});

import processout
client = processout.ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

confs = client.new_gateway_configuration().create({
    "filter":                   "alternative-payment-methods",
    "expand_merchant_accounts": True
})
# Iterate over the available confs and display them

require "processout"
client = ProcessOut::Client.new(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

confs = client.gateway_configuration.new().all(
    filter:                   "alternative-payment-methods",
    expand_merchant_accounts: true
)
# Iterate over the available confs and display them

<?php
$client = new \ProcessOut\ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

// Let's create an invoice
$confs = $client->newGatewayConfiguration()->all(array(
    "filter":                   "alternative-payment-methods",
    "expand_merchant_accounts": true
));
// Iterate over the available confs and display them

import "github.com/processout/processout-go"

var client = processout.New(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB",
)

// Let's create an invoice
confs, err := client.NewGatewayConfiguration().All(processout.GatewayConfigurationAllParameters{
    ExpandMerchantAccounts: true,
    Options: &processout.Options{
        Filter: "alternative-payment-methods",
    },
})
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}
// Iterate over the available confs and display them

Create your Invoice

Once the user has chosen an APM on which it wants to pay, you can create the Invoice we’ll use to initiate the payment. In your case, because you are integrating using our backend integration method, you’ll need to send us a return_url to which the user will land back once the payment is placed on the selected APM.

cURL Python Ruby PHP Go Node.js

# Let's create an invoice
curl https://api.processout.com/invoices \
    -u test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x:key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB \
    -d name="Awesome invoice" \
    -d amount="9.99" \
    -d currency=USD \
    -d return_url="https://www.super-merchant.com/return" \
    -d metadata[skip_processoutjs]=true

var ProcessOut = require("processout");
var client = new ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x",
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

// Let's create an invoice
client.newInvoice().create({
    name:       "Amazing item",
    amount:     "4.99",
    currency:   "USD",
    return_url: "https://www.super-merchant.com/return",
    metadata: {
      skip_processoutjs: "true"
    }
}).then(function(invoice) {
    //

}, function(err) {
    // An error occured

});

import processout
client = processout.ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

# Let's create an invoice
invoice = client.new_invoice().create({
    "name":       "Amazing item",
    "amount":     "4.99",
    "currency":   "USD",
    "return_url": "https://www.super-merchant.com/return",
    "metadata": {
      "skip_processoutjs": "true"
    }
})

require "processout"
client = ProcessOut::Client.new(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

# Let's create an invoice
invoice = client.invoice.create(
    name:       "Amazing item",
    amount:     "4.99",
    currency:   "USD",
    return_url: "https://www.super-merchant.com/return",
    metadata: {
      skip_processoutjs: "true"
    }
)

<?php
$client = new \ProcessOut\ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

// Let's create an invoice
$invoice = $client->newInvoice()->create(array(
    "name"       => "Amazing item",
    "amount"     => "4.99",
    "currency"   => "USD",
    "return_url" => "https://www.super-merchant.com/return",
    "metadata": array(
      "skip_processoutjs" => "true"
    )
));

import "github.com/processout/processout-go"

var client = processout.New(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB",
)

// Let's create an invoice
iv, err := client.NewInvoice().Create(processout.InvoiceCreateParameters{
    Invoice: &processout.Invoice{
        Name:      processout.String("Amazing item"),
        Amount:    processout.String("4.99"),
        Currency:  processout.String("USD"),
        ReturnURL: processout.String("https://www.super-merchant.com/return"),
        Metadata:  &map[string]string{
          "skip_processoutjs": "true",
        },
    },
})
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

Although not required, the skip_processoutjs metadata allows us to speed up the redirection by avoiding to display the Javascript middleman we generally use to bind ProcessOut.js handlers, by skipping this step and HTTP redirecting the user directly once the payment is placed.

Redirect your customer to the APM

The final step to make your user pay on the APM is to redirect the user to it. Now that you have both the Invoice ID created and the Gateway Configuration ID chosen, the redirection must be done to the following URL:

https://checkout.processout.com/proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x/iv_tIWEiBcrXIFHzJeXcZzqyp8EpY0xwmuT/redirect/gway_conf_9ie0prejnta3p9l2ns9030fiphlra7sz.apmname

Handle user return and capture

Once the payment is placed on the APM, the user will be redirected back to your return_url. A token GET parameter will be set in the URL. For example, the user will land back to the URL:

https://www.super-merchant.com/return?token=gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==

The code to capture the token of an alternative payment method is identical to the capture of a card token.

cURL Python Ruby PHP Go Node.js

curl https://api.processout.com/invoices/iv_tIWEiBcrXIFHzJeXcZzqyp8EpY0xwmuT/capture \
    -u test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x:key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB \
    -d source="gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ=="

var ProcessOut = require("processout");
var client = new ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x",
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

invoice.capture("gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==").then(
    function(transaction) {
        //

    }, function(err) {
        // The invoice could not be captured
    });

import processout
client = processout.ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

transaction = invoice.capture("gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==")

require "processout"
client = ProcessOut::Client.new(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB")

transaction = invoice.capture("gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==")

<?php
$client = new \ProcessOut\ProcessOut(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB");

$transaction = $invoice->capture("gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==");

import "github.com/processout/processout-go"

var client = processout.New(
    "test-proj_gAO1Uu0ysZJvDuUpOGPkUBeE3pGalk3x", 
    "key_sandbox_mah31RDFqcDxmaS7MvhDbJfDJvjtsFTB",
)

tr, _ := iv.Capture("gway_req_V2UncmUgaGlyaW5nIQ==")

The capture should return a transaction if it was successful. It is strongly advised to check its status attribute is set to completed to make sure the payment made it through. We highly recommend you to set up a way to receive webhooks as this will make you able to handle updates on payments made using alternative payment methods.