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title: Accept a payment with payment element using Go
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published_at: 2022-12-05 16:00:08 +0000
updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:51:52 +0000
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description: In this episode, you'll learn how to accept a one-time payment with a custom form using Go on the server and the Stripe Payment Element on the client. The Payment Element enables you to collect several different payment method types from cards and bank accounts to wallets and buy-now-pay-later payment methods.    ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev   ### Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:40 Install a sample with the Stripe CLI 04:06 Enable payment methods in the dashboard 05:12 Overview of payment flow 05:38 Create payment intent on the server 10:54 Collect payment details on the client 15:40 Submit payment details to Stripe 18:20 Build a confirmation page 21:46 Handle webhooks and post-processing events 24:44 Test your integration with Stripe test cards 26:00 Conclusion   ### Resources Accept a payment - https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=elements&lang=go PaymentIntent API reference - https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create?lang=go Learn all about webhooks - https://stripe.com/docs/videos/developer-foundations?video=webhook-helpers&lang=go   ### 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 #golang #golangtutorial
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# Accept a payment with payment element using Go

*Published: December 05, 2022*
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## Description

In this episode, you'll learn how to accept a one-time payment with a custom form using Go on the server and the Stripe Payment Element on the client. The Payment Element enables you to collect several different payment method types from cards and bank accounts to wallets and buy-now-pay-later payment methods. 


### Presenter
CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev


### Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:40 Install a sample with the Stripe CLI
04:06 Enable payment methods in the dashboard
05:12 Overview of payment flow
05:38 Create payment intent on the server
10:54 Collect payment details on the client
15:40 Submit payment details to Stripe
18:20 Build a confirmation page
21:46 Handle webhooks and post-processing events
24:44 Test your integration with Stripe test cards
26:00 Conclusion


### Resources
Accept a payment - https://stripe.com/docs/payments/accept-a-payment?platform=web&ui=elements&lang=go
PaymentIntent API reference - https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create?lang=go
Learn all about webhooks - https://stripe.com/docs/videos/developer-foundations?video=webhook-helpers&lang=go


### 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
 
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Sign up to stay updated with developer news: https://go.stripe.global/dev-digest

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## Transcript

hey what's up welcome back in this episode you're going to learn how to accept a one-time payment using a custom form with the payment element if you're looking for a simpler integration path we have the no code payment links option where you can set up a payment link directly through the dashboard and then share that with your customers through social media email text message Etc alternatively there's another option called stripe checkout this is a a very simple integration that has one API call on the server you redirect your customer to a stripe hosted page but in today's episode we're going to talk about integrating the payment element this allows you to build your own custom hosted form and collect lots of different payment method types so the payment element supports anything from cards all the way to bank accounts you've got support for wallets like Google pay and Apple pay all the way to buy now pay later like a firm and after pay clear pay so it is a great option for building your own custom form to accept a one-time payment so just as a quick roadmap for today we're going to install sample then we're going to go through the dashboard and talk about how you can enable payment methods these are going to be those payment methods that are dynamically rendered into the payment element every time the page loads and then we're going to create a payment intent on the server and use its client secret to render the payment element on the client so that we can collect payment details from the customer it will ultimately submit that payment to stripe and we're going to handle any of those post-processing events we're going to talk about web Hooks and a few other considerations that you might want to think about as you're building out your integration so let's get into it [Music] all right here we are in Visual Studio code we're going to use the stripe for vs code extension today if you haven't already installed this you can head over to the extension Gallery search for stripe and install the extension this uses the stripe CLI under the hood I've already authenticated with the stripe CLI and so I'm able to come down and use this start with a sample action and today we're going to start with a starter sample we're going to use the main integration with an HTML front end and go on the back end we're going to call our sample go starter Dash go and that's going to download it into our local machine and install this sample it's going to also have a couple of environment variables already set for us so that we don't have to go search around for our API keys and it's really convenient to just get up and running and play around with some code to get started we're going to say that we want to open this in the same window and we're going to ignore that next prompt so inside of the sample we're going to have a client directory and a server directory inside of the server this is the dot end file that I was talking about that is pre-populated for you by the strip for vs code extension when we install a sample this has our API Keys set for us now if you had not already authenticated or if you're installing this a different way then you'll want to go over to your stripe dashboard to the API key section and find your publishable key your stripe secret key and drop those in here for test mode now if we look down at server.go there's a bunch of code that comes out of the box for us so that we don't have to write a lot of boilerplate so the first thing I want to talk about is this slash config route that's going to return the publishable key from our environment variables this is a best practice so that if we need to roll our publishable key we can do so by just updating our end we don't have to dig around in all of our front-end code to figure out where we have put that publishable key we've also got a web hook Handler here already set up and we're going to come back and take a look at this handle web hook route and we'll actually handle some web hooks as part of our um our setup today all right so I'm going to open up the terminal here and we're going to jump into the server directory and we're going to say go run server that is how we start up the server so we're going to allow that and then we'll bring up our browser here to localhost 4242 and look at what we start with so this is a very simple sample app if we look in the client side we're going to see a very simple index.html file here that just has uh we're installing stripe.js at the top and we have a simple H1 next we're going to go enable our payment methods in the dashboard now from the stripe dashboard we can head over to the settings and to the payment method settings this is where we can manage our payment methods and enable or disable different ways that customers can pay through our payment element so you'll see here that we have cards enabled link Apple pay Google pay several different wallet methods there's lots of different bank redirects these are popular across Europe we also have some buy now pay later payment methods that are enabled finally we even have ACH direct debit as one of the payment methods that customers could use now if we wanted to enable Canadian pre-authorized debits we could click turn on and this would enable us to use Canadian pre-authorized debits at as a payment method type inside of our payment flows so this is where we manage our payment methods and these are the payment methods that will be dynamically derived inside of our payment element when we render that and show it to customers so that's how you enable and manage your payment methods instead of needing to deploy any new code you can just come into the dashboard and enable or disable different payment method types here's a quick overview of the payment flow that we'll build today when a customer lands on our page we're going to make an Ajax request back to the server the server is going to make an API call to stripe to create a payment intent we're going to use the payment intents client secret on the front end to render the payment element and that'll allow us to actually collect payment details securely and submit those directly to stripe so for now the first step that we want to do is head over to our server and make this API call that will create a payment intent back in server.co we're going to add a new function here for handling payment intent creation we're going to call it handle create payment intent that's going to take in the response writer and also the request the first thing we need to do is construct some params that will be used to create our payment intent so we're going to say params is stripe dot payment intent params now in here we want to pass in an amount this is the amount that we're going to charge so in practice you would want to probably look up the product in the database that you're about to sell figure out the amount that you need to charge for this customer and enter that amount here for today's demo we're just going to hard code this so we're going to pass in this value directly into stripe.n64 so we're going to wrap this up and we're just going to charge 10.99 so 1099 here is an integer value in the smallest denomination possible for a given currency we also need to specify the currency as striped.string this is going to be a string value inside of the stripe go Library we have a bunch of predefined currencies so we can look for currency and then let's actually set that to USD all right now we also want to enable those payment methods to be derived from the settings that we just configured in the dashboard so we need to enable automatic payment methods and this is going to be another sort of like sub hash that we're going to pass and we can pull that also off of the stripe go client Library using payment intent automatic payment method params automatic payment methods params and we're going to say that we want this to be enabled so this one is going to be a Boolean and we're going to pass in true okay so now that we have some params constructed we can pass those in to create a payment intent so we're going to say payment intent.new params and this will return either the payment intent or the error now if there was an error we're going to parse out and see if we can grab the stripe specific error so we'll say if stripe error or okay then we're going to just print out to the server log that we got a stripe error so we're going to say format Dot printf a stripe error occurred okay and that's going to be available in uh stripe error dot error like so we're also going to render back some Json we have a helper already set up for us called Write Json uh error message so we're going to use that pass in our writer we're also going to pass in you know the value for that stripe error stripe error dot error and we'll respond with a 400 status code now we've got some errors here so let's make that next what we want to do is if it was not a stripe error we're also going to just print out other error occurred and we're going to just send in error.error again we're going to write some Json write a Json error message back with unknown server error and a 500. now what we want to do is render back the client secret property of the payment intent as Json so here we're going to say write Json and we're going to pass in our writer we're also going to pass in a new struct and this is going to look like this so we're going to say client secret is going to be a string and the Json should have the client secret property like this and we're also going to pass in that value straight off of the payment intent so the client secret is going to be Pi dot client Secret and that should be good uh we don't actually need to pass the writer when we're logging that out okay so now we have this new function that will handle create payment intent requests now we need to map this to a route so we're going to say http.handlefunk for create payment intent that's the path handle create payment intent that's going to be the function that we want to use as our Handler so now we can open up the terminal we can restart our server allow incoming requests and then we can create another terminal session we're going to use Curl here to send a post request to localhost 4242 create payment intent and that should give us back that Json that has our client secret property inside so this was the first step which is to go to the server make an API called to stripe to create a payment intent and then pass its client secret back and now we're going to head over to the front end and use this client secret to render out the payment element into a custom form all right to jump into our front end we're going to open up index.html here now notice again that at the top we are installing stripe.js from js.stripe.com and that is a best practice we want to load that on every page there's some fraud detection tools that are built into that that are going to be really helpful all right so let's say we want to accept a payment and we need to add a form here that's going to have an ID so we're going to say this is the payment form and inside of our payment form we're going to have a couple divs and the first is going to be the payment element div this is where we're going to actually Mount the payment element now we just leave it as an empty div and that's going to be the container where we put the payment element and it's going to render out nice UI components for accepting lots of different payment method details we're also going to have a div here for any error messages that might happen while we're trying to accept or submit payment to stripe finally we're going to have a button here that just says pay and that should get us started so if we refresh the page here we'll see that we have a button we don't actually render the payment element because we need to write a little bit of JavaScript here so we're going to say script source and we're going to create a new script file called payment.js so we're going to make a new file here and we'll save that as payment.js in the client directory now when the Dom is fully loaded we're going to fetch the publishable key and initialize stripe then we're gonna fetch the payment intents client Secret finally we're going to mount the elements okay so first we're going to use the fetch API here to make it a request to that slash config route and that's going to return a promise that will resolve with a response object that has this Json property on it Json method on it which again also returns a promise that we cannot wait and this will give us back our publishable key again you could technically hard code this on the front end and pass in your publishable key directly to this stripe Constructor but I would prefer passing in the publishable key from the server again so that we can control that from environment variables that's especially useful when you have a mobile client so imagine you've deployed some IOS app a user installs the IOS app and then they never upgrade it if you've hard-coded your publishable key into that app then it's going to be really challenging to roll that key if for some reason you need to to swap out your publishable key all right let's fetch the payment intent from the server this is going to be again a fetch call this time we're going to pass to create payment intent and this is going to be a post request so we're going to say method is post and we're going to pass in some headers here with a content type of application Json now if you wanted to here's where you might pass in a body where you can sort of like stringify and pass in maybe the ID of the product that's being purchased or maybe you want to pass in sort of a cart ID where you can look up in the database we're not going to pass anybody today again we're just hard coding the amount but after we've made this fetch request this is again going to return a promise that will resolve with a response object that we want the Json off of so we're going to do this same little dance and then we're going to await that result and grab out the client secret property now this client secret is something we're going to use when we construct some new elements so here we're going to say stripe.elements now typically when we call stripe dot elements that gives us back an elements group and if you've if you're familiar with the old style card element or any of the older style elements that are available through stripe.js usually this is where this is how you would call the stripe elements method to get back an elements group now if we're using the payment element like we are today we need to pass in the client secret for a payment intent this client secret is used client-side to determine which payment method types to display based on the configuration inside of that payment intent now we're going to create a payment element so we're going to say elements.create and pass in the string payment and finally we're going to mount that payment element by calling dot Mount and passing in the CSS selector for that empty div that we have on index.html so that's this CSS selector here okay now if we refresh our page we should see that our payment element is rendered now we're able to sort of collect payment method details you can see here we have US bank account clarna there's lots of different payment method types that are supported by the payment element very powerful stuff but we haven't actually handled any submission of payment to stripe so let's do that next okay we want to use JavaScript on the front end to intercept the submission of this form and then submit those payment details directly to stripe so here on the front end we're going to grab reference to the form and we're going to say document.getelement by ID and pass in payment form now we want to add an event listener to the form for the submit event Now by default we're going to prevent default of that event so that it does not cause a full page submission and next we're going to say stripe.confirm payment this is going to actually submit the payment to stripe now this is going to take in an options object where we need to pass reference to the elements group that we created earlier there's also lots of other configuration here that you can pass in one of those is confirm params where we need to pass in the return URL this is the URL to which the customer will be redirected after they go through the payment flow now for now I'm just going to say window.location.href dot split onto question mark we'll grab the first one off and add on complete.html this is just going to redirect them to some page called complete.html that we haven't created yet um okay so striped.confirm payment will return a promise and most of the time this is going to redirect us to this return URL after they've gone through the flow but if the promise uh resolves with an error property then we want to handle that so if there's an error we want to take the message from that and enter that into our messages div that we created earlier so we're going to grab reference to that messages div by saying document.getelementbyid error messages and we'll say messages dot enter text is equal to error.message that's just in case uh something happens while we're attempting to submit those payment details okay now let's go through the flow and see if we can submit a payment so there's a test card number all four twos so we're going to grab that enter in an expiration in the future any CBC and any valid zip here and when we hit pay we are redirected now it says 404 and page not found but we are redirected to complete.html you'll notice that in the query string we have the ID of the payment intent we also have the client secret property for that payment intent and we can use that client secret on the front end in order to re-retrieve the payment intent and then render out its details here on the complete page so this is where you might Implement like a confirmation page that shows the details of the payment so we'll do that next all right we're going to create a new page here called complete.html and that's going to be in the client directory and I'm just going to copy most of what we already have in index.html we'll change the H1 to complete and then we're just going to have a bunch of closing tags here and we'll format the document okay so instead of payment.js we're going to have complete.js just to separate the two and ins in the body of this page we'll have a pre-tag that has the ID payment intent and we'll just render out the Json for the payment intent and then you can use your imagination for how you want to build out a confirmation page to maybe thank the customer for their purchase all right let's go implement complete.jscomplete.js again we want to wait until the Dom is fully loaded and we are going to uh fetch the publishable key and a knit stripe then we're going to use the params to re-retrieve the payment intent and render the payment intent Json okay so the first thing we want to do here is we're going to say the publishable key but is a weight fetch slash config okay constripe is equal to stripe we're going to pass in that publishable key next we're going to use the params to re-retrieve the payment intents we need to create a params object which is going to be a new URL search params and that's going to accept in window.location.href and params has this method on it called get where we can pass in the query string key so payment intent client secret all snake case is going to give us back the client secret property of the payment intent now we can use that client secret property to re-retrieve the payment intent on the front end using stripe.js so stripe.retrieve payment intent accepts a client secret property and returns a promise that will resolve with either an error or this payment intent property and we should then be able to render that payment intent back out as Json into that pre-tag we created earlier so let's just say we want that payment intent free off of the document payment intent and we're going to say payment intent pre dot inner text is going to be some Json and we're going to pass in the payment intent and null 2 just so that it looks nice okay so if we refresh the page again it's going to use those query string values in order to re-retrieve the payment intent and something is not working right so let's pop open the console and see what's going on ah we misspelled secret somewhere so this should be client secret okay and uh let's let's try this one more time okay look at that we see the details of the payment intent we can see the amount that was charged we see the status down here is succeeded so that is looking really good obviously this is very crude and you can use your imagination for how you might want to display the confirmation page all right we've got our confirmation page however you don't want to use the confirmation page as a signal for fulfillment of an order you don't want to actually fulfill an order based on the request to retrieve this confirmation page instead you must use a web hook Handler and the reason is that if for some reason the browser crashes or the computer crashes or the clients internet goes down or for some reason they close their computer or their battery died there's several different reasons why payment might be successful but this page does not load and as a result what you would want to do instead is use a web hook Handler so we're going to go talk about how we might build and test that so recall that we have this handle web hook function that is routed based on requests that are being sent to the slash web hook route now in the straightfor vs code extension here I can open this up there's a couple tools here for forwarding events so I can actually just say I want to forward events to localhost 4242 webhook this will fire up a listener that will forward events that happen on my stripe account to my local running server so if we were to just browse back to the the root route here and recall that as soon as we load this page we're creating a payment intent we can see in the logs for this listen command or this forward command that a payment intent.create aided event just fired so inside of this log we also see that a post request was sent to our web hook Handler and we got a 200 status code response back so if we look inside of the body here we'll notice that at the very bottom we have this a check for the event type and in this case it's looking for checkout session completed that's for a little bit different type of integration so here we're actually going to say payment intent. succeeded and when the payment intent succeeds we want to log some message out to the console and for this case let's just say that we want to we'll put out a money bag and payment succeeded all right now inside of our server log because we made a change we want to restart our server then we're going to go back through our payment flow here one more time so we're going to refresh the page again another payment intent is created we're going to enter in these test payment card details and hit pay and you'll see several events are going to fire one of them is this payment intent succeeded event so again we're looking at the logs for that listen command or that forward command we're also seeing charge.succeeded so there's going to be several other potential events that fire at the same time if we look back at the server log we can see that this was printed out payment succeeded so this is where you would actually handle your fulfillment logic web hooks are superior for lots of different reasons but one great reason is even if your server goes down stripe will continue to retry delivery of those web hook event notifications for up to three days with exponential back off so you can still sort of catch up and make sure that you have fulfilled all of the orders that might have happened you might be wondering how to test out your integration well over in the documentation for accepting a payment you can drill down into the test integration section and for each of the different payment method families between cards wallets Bank redirects Etc there are several different things that will allow you to test different scenarios so for instance we can grab this card this test card that ends in 3155 and we can use that as one of our test cards inside of the payment element and you'll notice that as we go through the payment flow here this will trigger a secure customer authentication payment flow so this is going to pop up a modal and in production this model would contain a bank account 2fa or sort of like a one-time code or some way to verify that the customer is who they say they are and that they are are allowed to authenticate this payment so that's one way that you can test sort of 3D secure and secure customer authentication is with that special card number another thing worth noting is in the documentation there are some optional steps depending on specific payment method types or QR code based payment methods these might require that you pass additional details when creating the payment intent or they might have other considerations like with Apple pay you'll need to go into the dashboard and make sure that you have an Apple pay domain set up and verified so just to review the entire flow the customer lands on the page and we use any information from that page to create a payment intent using the API and then when we return that payment intense client secret to the client we use that to build out a payment element on our custom form that's where customers enter their billing details and then we can submit that payment directly to stripe client side and then the customer is redirected to a return URL where we display this return status or this success status completion status and finally we're handling fulfillment with our web hook that's where we're actually pulling from inventory and printing shipping labels and doing all those things that we might do when someone buys something from us thank you so much for watching and we'll see in the next one

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