--- title: Accept an Apple Pay payment with React slug: accept-an-apple-pay-payment-with-react published_at: 2021-05-10 17:00:13 +0000 updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:33 +0000 summary: description: Learn the front end steps for accepting a payment with Apple Pay from your customers using a custom form in a React application. You'll learn how to use the PaymentRequestButtonElement 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 ### 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 ### 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, accept an apple pay payment with react, apple pay in react, apple pay payments, Accept Apple Pay, Accept Apple Pay payments, Apple Pay with React Stripe.js, React Stripe.js, Stripe.js, React Stripe.js tutorial, React Tutorial, @cjav_dev] views: 14363 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/accept-an-apple-pay-payment-with-react youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCsJfJyQKA youtube_id: bMCsJfJyQKA embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/bMCsJfJyQKA thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMCsJfJyQKA/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Accept an Apple Pay payment with React *Published: May 10, 2021* *Views: 14363* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCsJfJyQKA) [![Accept an Apple Pay payment with React](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bMCsJfJyQKA/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMCsJfJyQKA) ## Description Learn the front end steps for accepting a payment with Apple Pay from your customers using a custom form in a React application. You'll learn how to use the PaymentRequestButtonElement 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 ### 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 ### 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 apple pay payment with a custom form if you're interested in a faster integration for accepting payments head over to the checkout playlist in the stripe developers channel as stripe checkout does support apple pay out of the box so let's say you've already got a back end set up and it's creating payment intents for you and you want to add support for accepting the apple pay payment method on the front end so if you if you haven't already implemented a back end you want to head over to check out one of the server implementations we have episodes in all the officially supported server side languages also before we get too far if you're using like vanilla js or ios or android we have videos specific to those clients those will also be linked in the description so we've already got our back end up and running it has two endpoints that we're going to interact with today one is slash config and the other is create payment intent now the create payment intent endpoint expects a payment method type we're going to pass in card and it also expects a currency the card payment method type works with these mobile wallets like google pay and apple pay and you'll notice that the response we get here is a json object that has a client secret property for the payment intent that we intend to confirm with a payment method returned from apple pay so we're going to do that today so we have a server the server's already up and running in our client directory here we can start up our client with npm start this is going to be the react client this is based on create react app so we have a new react client started i'm using safari here on the right side so we can see apple pay and when we refresh the page here we see that we're going to accept a payment and we have a link here to apple pay which isn't actually implemented yet so let's jump in and take a little tour of what code we have written already so in our source directory we have an an app.js which is uh just rendering some routes for uh for components that are rendered on different pages and then we have an index.js file here that is wrapping our app component in an elements provider and we talk about how to go from zero to one with a a react client using the react stripe js library in another episode so that's another one that you might want to check out it's like going from zero to one with react stripe.js okay so from app.js the first thing we want to do here is import a new apple pay component from dot slash apple pay this is something we're going to go implement now so apple pay and we're going to just create a new route here for slash apple pay that will allow us to go to our apple pay component so we're going to say apple pay this is just going to demonstrate the apple pay payment method all right so we've we've got a failure here saying that we don't have an apple pay dot js file and that's correct so here we're going to say this is just going to be a functional react component so we're going to import react from react and we're going to say it's not going to take any props for now we're going to use with router so that if we want to we can redirect from this route and that should work fine and that width router comes from react router dom okay and for now we'll just return a very simple html page here that's going to have a header tag and we'll just say that's apple pay and then um let's see if we can render all right so we've got stuff showing up on the page we've got our apple pay component rendering uh the next thing i wanted to do was import this status messages helper it's a very simple div that just loops over a list of messages and displays a link or displays like the status message in a helpful format so we're going to say import status messages and use uh yeah use messages from dot slash status messages we'll drop that at the bottom here set up this hook okay so this is just going to give us a way to render some some messages to the page next let's set up an instance of a paymentrequest object so we can say like hans pr is equal to stripe.paymentrequest and call this method passing in an object that's going to configure what the customer sees when the apple pay dialog opens here we need to pass the currency this is going to be all case currency so usd and then a country will pass in u.s we also want to say things like what we want to request from apple pay when this dialog opens we want to say request payer email is true and request request payer name is true and then we also want to pass in a total which contains sort of the line items that will be displayed or the the the last the final line item that's going to be displayed in the payment sheet that opens up so we'll give this a label we'll just say demo payment and an amount which will be 19.99 and so we've created this payment request object but you'll see the error that we have over here is saying that stripe is not defined so there are a couple hooks that are available from react stripe.js we're going to say import use stripe and use elements from at stripe react stripe js and at the top we can say con stripe is equal to use stripe and we can also set up elements the same way now the use stripe hook and use elements hooks work by wrapping the component the child component in that elements provider that we looked at in index.js so here recall that we we looked at this elements provider which is given a stripe promise or an instance of stripe and so by by wrapping our app component in this elements provider we can use the use stripe and the use elements hooks in order to access those now the issue that we're running into now is that when the page first renders when this component executes and the page first renders stripe is not actually available yet because that's going to load asynchronously so we actually need to create our payment request inside of a use a use effect hook so we're going to say use effect we're going to pull that in from react and say use effect is going to just execute this function here and then the dependencies that we're going to pass in is stripe we're also going to pass in elements and this add message this add message helper so that we uh if any of those change we can rerun the use effect hook okay so now we are we're still seeing that null that stripe is null and it's not evaluating to an instance of payment request so we want to say if there's no stripe or there's no elements then we want to return early otherwise we'll construct this instance of the payment request and continue forward okay so our page is now rendering rendering again and we are we should be successfully creating a new instance of a payment request object now each of these paymentrequest objects expose a method can make payments we can say pr.can make payment now this is a function that checks to see whether or not we're able to use the underlying payment request api or the apple pay api so in safari this is going to use the apple pay api but in other browsers it'll just use the the built-in payment request api this returns a promise that resolves with uh with an object that will have properties on it like apple pay is true or google pays true or false so we can actually just check to see if there is an object if we actually got an object back then we want to show the button if we got null back then we don't want to show the button so in this case we're going to say like if result then we want to like show some button on the page however because we want to render that down here inside of our our jsx that's being rendered we want to use another use state hook so that we can keep track of this payment request object use state and we'll say payment request set payment request is use state and we'll start it off with null and if there's a result and we want to say set payment request to this instance of the payment request that we just created here so to pr so now we should be able to say inside of our jsx down here we can say if there's a payment request then render a new payment request button element and this is available through react stripe.js so we're going to import that from react.js we're going to say payment request button element and the payment request button element ah we are missing a closing curly brace there okay so the payment request button element requires some options that we have to pass in so we're going to pass options and at a minimum we need to pass the instance of the payment request object so we're going to say payment request so now we should be rendering the payment request button element if we can make a payment now if we cannot make a payment then we are not going to show the page because this payment request object will not be it'll be null because we won't have set the payment request on in our state for the component okay so at this p at this point our code is ready to test and we don't see any payment request button we don't see the apple pay button here and you might be wondering why well there's a couple of prerequisites that we need to ensure before we'll be able to even test this locally so number one we have to have an apple pay domain registered with stripe it has to be set up and registered inside of stripe number two the page needs to be hosted on https so generally when we're running stuff on localhost it's not https and number three we need to actually have some cards set up in our apple pay wallet so in order to test this you either need to like deploy it to some staging environment which has a public domain or you need to use some tunneling software like ngrok that will provide a public domain for you so today we're going to set up ngrok to proxy our requests and that will give us a an ngrok domain that we can register as an apple pay domain for testing it will also give us a https route that we can use so that our page is being served over over https so in this second actually let's create another terminal tab here now you can install ngrok with homebrew you can also download ngrok directly from their website and run it here i can run ngrok http and then typically you just give it the port that you want to that you want to run this on and we're running our react client on port 3000 we're running our server on port 4242. one of the things that we need to do in addition to just passing the port like this is to pass to tell ngrok we want to rewrite the host header so we're going to pass dash dash host header equals rewrite which will alternatively you could turn off the domain checking as part of our react client so this will fire up ngrok and create a tunnel and now i have this publicly available domain that we can hit from the outside world and uh that also gives us this http s version of this domain so we can we can paste that in to uh to safari here and we can see the requests that are firing for that domain all right so now we see that uh this on the ngrok domain our page has loaded we can click on apple pay this will show us our apple pay page the button is still not rendering though because we need to register this domain with apple pay so we need to register this domain as an apple pay domain which we can do through the stripe dashboard so we're going to open up the stripe dashboard go to dashboard.stripe.com on the left side if you click settings then go to payment methods and then eligible and configure your apple pay payment settings you'll notice that i don't have any web domain set up so i'm going to say add a new domain now there's three steps here we need to paste in the ngrok domain we need to download the verification file this is going to download a file that's called apple developer merchant id domain association and we need to place that into or serve it from a directory that starts with dot well known so we need to create a new directory dot well known and then add this file that we just downloaded to that directory so we can do that now if we want to do this before we click add so that the the verification happens later so we're going to go back to our our code here now on the react client in the public directory these assets are served statically so we can create a new directory uh create a new directory called dot well known and in that well known directory is where we want to copy that domain association file so i'm going to say copy from downloads apple pay developer okay so then we're going to copy that into client.well known clientpublic.well known okay so at this point we should be able to visit this url and confirm that this has it's so that downloaded the file again so this should this should work fine i believe so we're going to click add and this will run the verification process and so now this domain is a a registered and verified apple pay domain all right let's head back to our test here and refresh the page all right that's awesome okay excellent so now we can see this giant beautiful apple pay button but we're not ready yet to necessarily click it or go through the process so the next thing we want to do is go back to our client and we need to we need to add a couple more things so this paymentrequest object will emit several different events one example of an event that's emitted is cancel so when someone opens the payment sheet and then clicks cancel that'll trigger an event the event that we care about today is the payment method event so we're gonna say pr.on payment method and we're gonna register a new handler that will fire when the payment method event happens so we're going to use an async function here so we can use async await inside of here and now when a new payment method is available we want to do a couple things we're going to create a payment intent on the server and then we're going to confirm the payment intent on the client now technically you could create the payment intent earlier in the flow if you know the price that the customer is going to pay earlier on you can create that whenever you have enough information to create the payment intent some folks will create the payment intent when the page loads other times you'll want to wait until the very last second to create the payment intent based on maybe the shipping address or some configuration that's going to be available as part of apple pay so we're just going to create it here this is going to be a post request to our servers create payment intent endpoint and that's going to return that json object that we looked at at the very beginning of the show here and that will we're going to destructure the client secret out of that json response and we need to make sure that we're passing in to our server the payment method type as card and then the currency as usd now in practice you could generally hard code the list of payment method types that you want to make your payment intents confirmable width you'll typically hard code that on the server in this demo and in this series we're going to show you how to collect and confirm several different payment method types and the combination of payment method type and currency is sometimes a little bit limiting so in order to demonstrate the widest variety of payment method types we're passing the payment method type and currency from the client to the server but know that in practice you might pass things here like a cart id or some list of item ids that you want to then calculate the amount to collect for on the server all right so once we have this client secret property we're ready to do a confirm step so stripe.js exposes a method called confirm card payment and that accepts uh several arguments the first is this client secret property that we just received back from the server the next is an options block we're going to specify the payment method type or the payment method and this in many many examples will pass an object where you can give reference to the element uh however in this scenario when working with apple pay the event that's fired when the payment method event type uh is triggered on the paymentrequest object this event will have reference to the payment method that was exposed so or the payment method that was submitted by the customers we could say e.paymentmethod.id that will give us the id of the payment method that was given to us by apple pay we need to pass a third argument in this case and we want to say handle actions is false so handle actions will handle any next actions that are required when going through a card payment flow so if there is a 3d secure flow for secure customer authentication which is required in europe that would prompt a modal or might redirect the page we don't want to have a modal open and we don't want to redirect because while that payment dialog is open there's going to be some limitations to what kind of javascript can run and we don't want to be blocked by having that payment sheet open and not being able to present a modal so we're going to explicitly say handle actions false here and then handle them manually in a moment okay so confirm card payment is going to return a promise which will resolve with either an error or a payment intent so we can say we'll destructure these and say that if there's an error we want to tell the apple pay dialogue that something failed so we can say e.complete fail and then we want to return early if there was not an error then we want to say e.complete success and we do want to um that in most cases that's going to be the end of the payment flow and payment will be successful however because we we specified handle actions false here we need to check if the payment intense status is one of requires action and if so we want to call the confirm card payment again now that we have closed the payment dialog so this e dot complete success that will close the payment dialog for apple pay and then once that's closed we want to say strive dot confirm card payment again this time we can just pass the client secret and that will again check to see if there's any next actions for the payment intent which there should be if the payment is in the status of requires action it'll present some modal or it might redirect to the bank's page to collect a one-time password etc okay so at this point we are ready to take this for a spin so let's refresh our browser here in safari i have some uh some personal cards set up in apple pay when in test mode you will provide an actual credit card a live credit card to apple pay and then the details will be swapped out on the back end when we're in test mode so it doesn't actually collect any payment all right so let's walk through that flow in the ui so we have this big beautiful apple pay button we're going to click on that and we see that the the pay dialog is opened we can select between several different cards uh that are in our wallet and change the you know the billing address or the contact information for the payment we also see this demo payment line here this is from the payment request object that we configured earlier we also see pay with touch id and on the mac touch bar here i see pay with touch id so i'm going to use my fingerprint to authenticate payment we see that it is now processing payment and uh once that's completed we see now that we have a log here that says payment succeeded with the id of our payment intent so we can actually click on that link and go to the stripe dashboard which will show us a little bit of detail about the payment that just succeeded the payment method will show the actual last four but rest assured this is actually just a test payment um and you can see a whole bunch of other information about the payment that that's available here in the stripe dashboard okay excellent so that is how you can set up and collect an apple pay payment and this shows that we actually did successfully complete that payment now again if there were some further actions that were required for 3d secure or secure customer authentication then modals would be open it's it's quite tricky to simulate that as i don't have a card that requires 3d secure we do need an actual live card all right so as a quick recap we went into app.js we added a new route for our new apple pay component we created a new apple pay react component here where we set up a use effect hook to create a payment request object where we set all of the information that the customer is going to see when they're checking out we checked to confirm whether or not the the payment request button and apple pay were available in the browser and if it was available then we set that paymentrequest object so that we could create this payment request button element that we see on the page then we added an event listener for the payment and the payment method event on the paymentrequest object and when that fired we created a payment intent on the back end using this create payment intent function to pass in our payment method type and currency again those could be hard coded on the server and then in the case that the request the server failed we are calling e.complete fail so that the payment sheet can display an error we also added a little bit of logging there and then in the case that we were able to successfully create the payment intent on the server then we're going to confirm that card payment on the client passing in the client secret of the payment intent and then the payment method id that we get from apple pay and again we're paying we're passing handle actions false so that we can manually close that payment sheet before handling any next actions this was the jsx that we used very simple just a header tag and the payment request button which we're gonna conditionally show if the payment request is available and we can make a payment in this in this browser that wraps up our demo for today and how you can accept apple pay payments with react in a custom form on the web you are now fully equipped to build a custom payment flow with react to accept an apple pay payment with stripe watch the other videos in this playlist to see how to accept different types of payment methods and as always if you have any feedback please let us know in the feedback form linked in the description thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] you --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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