--- title: Accept a card payment with React Stripe.js slug: accept-a-card-payment-with-react-stripe-js published_at: 2021-04-27 17:30:01 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:37 +0000 summary: description: Learn the front end steps for accepting a payment with a card from your customers using a custom form in a React application. You'll learn how to use the CardElement component and how to use the confirmCardPayment method from Stripe.js to securely confirm a PaymentIntent client-side. This method handles 3D Secure and Secure Customer Authentication (SCA). Watch one of these episodes to learn the server side steps required to create a PaymentIntent using the Stripe API with one of the officially supported client libraries: Ruby - https://youtu.be/079khYtqWPo Python - https://youtu.be/Tgjwx-38Dic Node.js - https://youtu.be/WG4ehXSEpz4 Go - https://youtu.be/cbsCxLDL4EY Java - https://youtu.be/-uyXCnPXegE .NET - https://youtu.be/mqEjRgoZWdo PHP - https://youtu.be/BPfpPGl85tk Want to see how to implement with a different client? HTML and JavaScript - https://youtu.be/0oHjwz-WHcc iOS - https://youtu.be/8sXgvDWVsuI Android - https://youtu.be/fhgqeeQczOc ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Getting started with React Stripe.js: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5WwF9s-ZI Stripe.js documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/js Accept a payment documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/accept-a-payment/blob/main/custom-payment-flow/client/react-cra/src/Card.js ### Table of contents 00:45 Confirm the server is working as expected 02:00 Add a new payment form 03:52 Add the CardElement component 05:57 Add useElements and useStripe hooks 06:36 Create PaymentIntent on the server 08:07 Add StatusMessages helper component 09:48 Confirm with confirmCardPayment 12:21 View successful payment in the dashboard 13:00 Test 3D Secure and Secure Customer Authentication card 14:12 Add error handling 15:40 Review ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments tags: [stripe, payments, confirm a card payment, confirm payment, react, react stripe.js, stripe.js, card element, elements, stripe elements, stripe card element, Accept a card payment with React Stripe.js, @cjav_dev] views: 33306 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/accept-a-card-payment-with-react-stripe-js youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhvtIbfDZJI youtube_id: IhvtIbfDZJI embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/IhvtIbfDZJI thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IhvtIbfDZJI/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Accept a card payment with React Stripe.js *Published: April 27, 2021* *Views: 33306* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhvtIbfDZJI) [![Accept a card payment with React Stripe.js](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IhvtIbfDZJI/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhvtIbfDZJI) ## Description Learn the front end steps for accepting a payment with a card from your customers using a custom form in a React application. You'll learn how to use the CardElement component and how to use the confirmCardPayment method from Stripe.js to securely confirm a PaymentIntent client-side. This method handles 3D Secure and Secure Customer Authentication (SCA). Watch one of these episodes to learn the server side steps required to create a PaymentIntent using the Stripe API with one of the officially supported client libraries: Ruby - https://youtu.be/079khYtqWPo Python - https://youtu.be/Tgjwx-38Dic Node.js - https://youtu.be/WG4ehXSEpz4 Go - https://youtu.be/cbsCxLDL4EY Java - https://youtu.be/-uyXCnPXegE .NET - https://youtu.be/mqEjRgoZWdo PHP - https://youtu.be/BPfpPGl85tk Want to see how to implement with a different client? HTML and JavaScript - https://youtu.be/0oHjwz-WHcc iOS - https://youtu.be/8sXgvDWVsuI Android - https://youtu.be/fhgqeeQczOc ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources Getting started with React Stripe.js: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y5WwF9s-ZI Stripe.js documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/js Accept a payment documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/accept-a-payment/blob/main/custom-payment-flow/client/react-cra/src/Card.js ### Table of contents 00:45 Confirm the server is working as expected 02:00 Add a new payment form 03:52 Add the CardElement component 05:57 Add useElements and useStripe hooks 06:36 Create PaymentIntent on the server 08:07 Add StatusMessages helper component 09:48 Confirm with confirmCardPayment 12:21 View successful payment in the dashboard 13:00 Test 3D Secure and Secure Customer Authentication card 14:12 Add error handling 15:40 Review ### Support If you have a question, please feel free to reach out to our support team on Discord at https://stripe.com/go/developer-chat. ### Updates Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest ### Feedback If you have any feedback about this or other episodes, let us know: https://forms.gle/VjNqzRhotM2snYo88. #Stripe #Payments ## Transcript in this episode you'll learn how to implement the front end with react to accept a one-time payment with a custom form if you're interested in a faster integration path for accepting card payments head over to the checkout playlist in the stripe developers channel so let's say you already have a back-end set up to create payment intents and you want to add support for accepting the card payment method on the front end now if you haven't already implemented a backend head over and take a look at one of those server implementations in one of the officially supported server-side languages also before we get too far if you're using like vanilla js or some other non-react web framework or if you're using ios or android on mobile we have videos specific to those clients that cover how to accept payment and those are linked in the description so our back end is already set up and running it has two endpoints that we'll interact with today one is slash config for fetching publishable keys so let's actually pull this up so we have uh config so localhost 4242 slash config will fetch our publishable key and then create payment intent is the other endpoint here and this takes in the payment method type in the currency so the payment method type we're passing in the payment method type and currency because not all payment method types work with all currencies um however card is supports all the currencies that stripe supports so this actually doesn't matter too much for card but it will in other demonstrations when we start to accept other payment method types but when we hit the create payment intent endpoint we are returned a client secret property that we can then use to confirm the payment on the front end so that's what we're going to implement today is a basic form for handling that confirmation step so i'm going to fire up this client which is the react client and we have a video about how to go from zero to one with react if you're curious about how we built this react client or the the starter for the react client we do have that episode live on the stripe developers channel so you're welcome to check that out so the first thing i want to do is add a new route so that if we go to slash card it pulls up our new card component so we'll add a new route here and the path will match on is slash card and we want to just render the card some card component that we're going to define soon and this could be the card form or a payment form or some other related form but for now we're just gonna we don't have anything implemented so we're gonna import uh card from dot slash card and then we'll go add this card.js file and this is going to be a really basic react functional react component so we'll say card it doesn't take any props for now and it will return default with router so that we can redirect if we need to and we'll import with router from react router dom okay there we go uh all right so our card component now should be rendering when we go to slash card and nothing is actually returned so if we just return card here that should show our card endpoint okay um so let's return a bit more html so we'll create a fragment and inside of here we'll make an h1 that just says card and we'll make a form that we can use to collect payment details so our form is just gonna have an id of payment form uh for now and we'll give it a nice big button that says pay let's see okay so now we have a button there now in order to collect card details we're going to use the card element now this is available from react stripe gs the card element you can import the card element from at stripe slash react stripe js and again we talked all about how we set up react stripe js uh in a previous episode so if you want to check out the react starter that'll that'll get you set up all set up with react stripe gs so here let's add an a label um for our card input and we're going to say html4 card element then we're going to add our card element just like so now if we did that now you can see in our our html or like in the browser over here that the card element input is rendering it's the single line card element that accepts the card number cbc expiration and postal code but if we click on the word card right now the label it's not actually adding focus to our card element that's because we need the id for that so we can say id card element and now when we click on card we are focusing on the card input now if we enter in the 4242 test card and then some test number and then click pay nothing actually happens in fact like it's making a full post request to the server at slash card which there is no endpoint that accepts post requests there so the next thing that we want to do is add a submit handler to the form so that we can handle the form submission so let's say on submit we want to call handle submit and up here we'll create the handle submit function and that's going to be an async function so we can do some some async stuff in here and we'll start by preventing the default so we stop making full post requests to the server and then the next thing we want to do is we want to um create the payment intent on the server and then we want to confirm the payment on the client okay so before we do that though i want to use two hooks that are available from react stripe js so that we can interact with this card element and grab reference to those payment details so we're going to use elements and we're going to use stripe so when right when we're rendering this function we can call elements is use elements and stripe is use stripe and when we submit the form if either of those are not yet defined because we haven't completely set them up we want to just make this a no-op so for now we'll just say if there's no stripe or there's no elements then return otherwise we do want to create the payment intent on the server which we can do using the fetch api so we're going to make a post request to the server and it will create a payment intent which is going to return just that client secret property if we scroll no it's going to return that client secret property which we can destructure into this variable client secret and the endpoint we're going to call is create payment intent this is to match the docs too so this this should match if you if you're looking in the accept a card payment documentation create payment intent should align with what you see there now again we need to pass the payment method type to our server and in this case it's going to be card and we also want to pass the currency so we're going to pass euros today and that should get us our client secret for the payment intent now technically you can pass whatever you want to the back end in order to create and configure that payment intent perhaps you're passing some list of product information or a cart id or it could be you know the shipping information or the location or what have you right any of the information that you're collecting on this form could be passed to the back end so that when you're creating the payment intent you can configure that based on the information that the user has input into the into the form here um so the next thing we want to do is handle the result of this um this payment intent by confirming it on the client now before we get too far i did want to add one more thing here we have a little helper called status messages which is it's a component for rendering just like rendering some basic status messages so we have something to look at on the screen and it takes in an array of strings which we can um use the this this hook so we can say uh add message it's the add message hook we can say const messages add or this is use messages use messages they use messages hook add message is use messages and if you're if you're curious what this looks like um the status messages file here has all of this implemented it's really just like a div that is listing out messages so that we can debug while not having to open the console essentially um and we'll have some pretty output so let's see if this is working so when the form is submitted we will say add message like creating payment creating payment intent and then if we retr our returned a client secret property then we can add a message that says like payment intent created and we can refresh the page if we enter in 4242 card and hit pay we see creating a payment intent we see payment intent was created that's great so the next step is we want to confirm the payment intent on the client so the stripe js library exposes a method called confirm card payments we can say stripe dot confirm card payment and pass in the first argument being the client secret for the payment intent that we just created and the second argument being an options block where we can pass in information about the payment method we want to use to confirm this payment so payment method now this could technically be a string value with the id of the payment method that you have already saved on file for this customer so if you have an existing payment method you can pass it here if you don't have an existing payment method we can collect this new payment method using the card element so we can say card is equal to elements dot get element and then pass in the type card element okay so this card property that we're passing in as part of the payment method is expecting reference to an element so it's expecting reference to this card input element which we can get using the elements object that again was returned when we did the use elements hook when we made a call to the use elements hook initially and that is available because this entire component is wrapped in an elements provider in the root in the index right so the elements provider takes in either an instance of stripe or a promise that will resolve to an instance of stripe and we wrap up the entire app in that elements provider and because of that when we use the use elements hook the elements object allows us to interact with objects or those element components that are on the page directly by using this elements.getelements that locates the element and allows us to pass it in here so this will confirm the card payment now this returns a promise which we can await and say give me back the payment intent and then we can just say down here we'll just say add message of the you know the payment intent and then we'll maybe we'll put in the id of the payment intent and its status so we'll say payment intent dot status and payment intent id now if we refresh the page enter in our 4242 test card and hit pay we can see creating the payment intent the payment intent was created and this payment intent succeeded now if we follow this link over to the stripe dashboard we will see all of the information about the payment that just succeeded so we can tell that it was 1999 euros it used the 4242 test card it succeeded and there's a few more details about the payment that are available directly on the stripe dashboard so the stripe documentation has a whole host of stripe test card numbers that you can use with stripe integrations the most common is this 4242 card that succeeds but there are also several others including international test cards and regulatory test cards so this very first regular regulatory test card that ends in 3155 if we refresh our page and enter that test card any future expiration any cbc in any postal code and hit pay you'll see that this test card will open a modal now in production this modal will be populated by the issuing banks page so the card whomever's whichever bank issued the card number for your customer if they require 3d secure or some sort of customer authentication then that will be displayed inside of that modal if the bank supports that version otherwise you might redirect so this is an example of a 3d secured card now we also have a test card here that will fail for insufficient funds with 3ds so if we copy this test card and refresh the page and enter that in and hit pay we will see the modal that opens we can click complete authentication and then we actually crash because we're seeing id of undefined we're trying to log out id of undefined it turns out that we don't actually have any error handling so let's go add some error handling so that our our page here doesn't fail in that case so for both the the request that's going to the back end to the server to create the payment intent and for our call to confirm the cl confirm this the payment on using stripe.js both of those will optionally return an error object so we're going to alias that to back end error in the case of our server we're going to say if there's a backend error then we want to add a message that is just backend error.message and we'll return so we'll just return early if we if our backend failed to create the payment intent and then similarly we're going to get an error back from confirm card payment and this is going to be called stripe error we're just going to name it stripe error in back end or error to disambiguate now if there's a stripe error we will add another message that says stripe error dot message and we'll return so now if we refresh the page here enter that same card that will fail with insufficient funds hit pay then we are presented with the 3d secure test modal we complete authentication and rather than just failing or crashing we see that the card has insufficient funds and that is really all that we wanted to show today so as a quick recap what we did was we added a brand new card component and we set up some really basic html for a form including using this new card element that's available from react stripe.js we pulled in status messages just for debugging purposes we added a handle submit for our form submission which checked to see whether or not stripe or elements were loaded from our use stripe and use elements hooks and then we created a payment intent on the server using our existing back end passing in the payment method type in the currency and then next we confirmed the card payment on the client which depending on whether or not sca or some 3d secure authentication was required it may open the modal or it may redirect so all of this is handled by con confirm card payment so we added confirm card payment and finally we wrapped this up with a little bit of error handling and uh yeah so hopefully this was useful you are now fully equipped to build a custom payment flow to accept a one-time payment with stripe using react head over to watch the other videos in this 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