---
title: Accept an Afterpay / Clearpay payment with React
slug: accept-an-afterpay-clearpay-payment-with-react
published_at: 2021-06-17 17:00:11 +0000
updated_at: 2023-01-30 22:53:26 +0000
summary: 
description: In this episode, you'll learn how to confirm an Afterpay / Clearpay payment with a React client. Afterpay / Clearpay is a payment method available through Stripe that enables your customers to buy now and pay later.    ### Table of contents   00:00 Introduction 01:25 Verify server endpoints 02:48 Build the AfterpayClearpay component 06:00 Handle submission of the form  06:18 Create a payment intent 07:44 Confirm the payment intent 09:08 Test the demo 09:30 Implement the thank you page 12:29 Test the demo again 13:11 Recap   ### Server implementations   Ruby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079khYtqWPo&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M50RmP6ie-gdcSnfOuQCRYk&index=12 Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgjwx-38Dic&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M55YVn0mGoQ5r-39A1-ZypO&index=11 PHP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfpPGl85tk Node.js - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG4ehXSEpz4&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5xNIuNapwmABwEy2uifAlY&index=11 Java - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyXCnPXegE&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5TnSGVjEHTTMgdnnHi-KPg&index=11 Go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbsCxLDL4EY&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5eqpSBR9KL7K0lcnWo0V0a&index=12 .NET - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqEjRgoZWdo&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M4cNNoUtjWevYSci4ubsbhC&index=11    ### Other client implementations   Not using React?  Consider these other episodes that cover the same content in different front end implementations:   HTML and JavaScript - https://youtu.be/p1qv9o63uPQ   ### Presenter   CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev   ### Resources   Official client library: https://github.com/stripe/react-stripe-js Official documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/afterpay-clearpay/accept-a-payment Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/accept-a-payment/blob/main/custom-payment-flow/client/react-cra/src/AfterpayClearpay.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, after pay, afterpay, clearpay, clear pay, afterpay / clearpay, react, react.js, Stripe React.js, Accept an Afterpay payment, Accept a Clearpay payment, @cjav_dev]
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author: CJ Avilla
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# Accept an Afterpay / Clearpay payment with React

*Published: June 17, 2021*
*Views: 1199*

## Watch

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## Description

In this episode, you'll learn how to confirm an Afterpay / Clearpay payment with a React client. Afterpay / Clearpay is a payment method available through Stripe that enables your customers to buy now and pay later. 
 
### Table of contents
 
00:00 Introduction
01:25 Verify server endpoints
02:48 Build the AfterpayClearpay component
06:00 Handle submission of the form 
06:18 Create a payment intent
07:44 Confirm the payment intent
09:08 Test the demo
09:30 Implement the thank you page
12:29 Test the demo again
13:11 Recap
 
### Server implementations
 
Ruby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079khYtqWPo&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M50RmP6ie-gdcSnfOuQCRYk&index=12
Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgjwx-38Dic&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M55YVn0mGoQ5r-39A1-ZypO&index=11
PHP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPfpPGl85tk
Node.js - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG4ehXSEpz4&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5xNIuNapwmABwEy2uifAlY&index=11
Java - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uyXCnPXegE&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5TnSGVjEHTTMgdnnHi-KPg&index=11
Go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbsCxLDL4EY&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M5eqpSBR9KL7K0lcnWo0V0a&index=12
.NET - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqEjRgoZWdo&list=PLy1nL-pvL2M4cNNoUtjWevYSci4ubsbhC&index=11

 
### Other client implementations
 
Not using React?  Consider these other episodes that cover the same content in different front end implementations:
 
HTML and JavaScript - https://youtu.be/p1qv9o63uPQ
 
### Presenter
 
CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev
 
### Resources
 
Official client library: https://github.com/stripe/react-stripe-js
Official documentation: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/afterpay-clearpay/accept-a-payment
Code: https://github.com/stripe-samples/accept-a-payment/blob/main/custom-payment-flow/client/react-cra/src/AfterpayClearpay.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 a react client to accept a one-time after pay clear pay payment with a custom form after pay is also known as clear pay in the uk and it's a payment method for customers to buy now and pay later so after pay provides your customers in australia canada new zealand the uk and the us a way to split their purchases over several installments so the customer only pays the first installment at purchase time and you are immediately paid in full and afterpay collects the remaining installments from your customer over time so after pay is particularly popular among businesses that are selling things like fashion beauty and sports products and in this example we're going to assume that we already have a server set up for creating payment intents and we want to add support for creating these after pay clear pay payments on the front end if you don't already have a server implemented that's all right you can head over and take a look at one of our example integrations in one of the officially supported server languages those are linked down in the description also before we get too far if you're using vanilla.js or some other implementation for your client that is not react we have episodes for accepting clearpay and after pay payments with other client implementations those are also linked down in the description our server is already up and running it has two endpoints that we're gonna interact with today one is slash config for fetching publishable keys and one is create payment intent and create payment intent takes in the payment method type and the currency so here we're going to pass in after pay clearpay as the payment method type and we're going to pass usd for our currency today now this endpoint is going to create a payment intent on the server and return just its client secret property which we'll use to confirm that payment on the client all right let's take a look at what we already have this is an app based on create react app the create react app template and in index.js the first thing we do is load our publishable key and create a stripe promise with load stripe this is a helper that comes from the npm module for stripe.js then we're going to use the elements provider and wrap our entire application and pass in just one prop that's going to be the stripe prop which is either an instance of the stripe object or a promise that will resolve to a stripe object and we want to use this elements provider and wrap the entire app so that we have access to both the stripe object and all of the react stripe.js elements components inside of the application let's head over and take a look at app.js next so appjs right now is using react router dom to create some routes we're going to add a brand new route for after pay clear pay and initially we will just render the the after pay clear pay component that is yet to be created so we're going to import that and when we import it you'll notice that we get an error because we're going to fail to compile uh because this isn't actually this doesn't exist yet so we're going to go implement a functional react component for collecting these after pay clear pay payments so in after pay clearpay.js we're going to export default with router the after pay clearpay form component initially we're going to use with router so that we can redirect from this component if we need to so the after pay clearpay form component is not going to take in any props initially and to start out we'll just return an empty string just so we can get get this thing set up we're going to import with router from react router dom and we also need to import react so that we can use jsx inside of this component all right so let's set up a basic after pay clear pay component here we'll create a head tag with the title of the payment method type and then we're going to add a form now this form is where we'll collect all of the billing details for after pay clear pay and in order to accept and after pay clear pay payment we need to collect both the billing information the billing address and shipping address and so i've organized these into separate field sets just so that we can keep them logically organized now for the billing we need to collect the name the email and then the full address so address line one line two city state a postal code and a country and so we're gonna sort of quickly scaffold out all of these different controls you'll notice that with each of these controls we're passing in a value prop and an on change prop these are going to use the use state hook in order to keep keep track of the state and sort of bind our controls in two different directions here all right now that we've got all of our form control set up we're going to import use state from react and then we'll go through creating all of our state variables and passing in some sensible defaults so that we don't have to type into the form every single time that we're trying to test this so we're going to pull out the uh and set up the name email line one two and city state zip and postal code are the the postal code and country for the billing address and we'll do the same for the shipping address all right now we can see in the browser all of our form controls are rendering for our after pay clear pay form that's looking fantastic you'll notice though that if we refresh the browser and hit pay nothing actually happens that's because we haven't wired up the submission of the form to do anything with our javascript so we're going to add an on submit handler called handle submit this is going to be an async function and we will prevent defaults that we don't cause a full page reload and when the form is submitted we want to do two things first we're going to create the payment intent on the server and second we're going to confirm that payment intent here on the client now in order to create the payment intent on the server we're going to use the fetch api that's built into the browser to send a post request to create payment intent this will return a promise that will resolve with either an error property or a client secret we're going to alias the error to back end error so we can deconflict with another error that we're going to use here shortly recall that this endpoint expects two arguments the payment method type in the currency again we're passing after pay clear pay and usd in practice you could hard code the payment method type in currency on the server you don't have to pass these in from the client the reason that we're doing this is so that we can demonstrate the widest variety of payment method type and currency combinations while still maintaining sort of the same sort of back end next we see that there is an error that says that add message is not defined so add message is a helper that comes from the status messages component so we're going to import status messages and the use messages hook from our status messages javascript file that's here we can take a quick look at it it is a small component that iterates over a list of string messages and then prints out a list of divs so we'll use the use messages hook in order to create a list of messages and an add message helper function that will add a string message to that list so messages is a list of strings an add message expects a string message and we'll add that to the list of messengers there is a method exposed from stripe called confirm after pay payment this takes in a couple of different arguments the very first one is the client secret property that was just returned from the server and the second is a big options block where we're going to pass in all the payment method details that we just collected from the client now in order to use this method from stripe.js we need to use the use stripe hook to grab reference to that stripe object that was passed down from the elements provider from index.js now if stripe is not loaded yet when the form is submitted then we're going to just add a log message that says stripe hasn't loaded yet otherwise we'll continue on with the rest of the form submission so for this confirm after pay clear pay payment we're going to start passing down all the the state variables that we've collected above and a return url so the return url is the url to which a customer will be redirected after they've gone through the payment flow in the after pay ui so they're going to be when they click pay they'll be redirected to after pay and then when they're done sort of filling out any after pay information they'll be redirected back to this return url now confirm after pay payment returns a promise that will resolve with either an error or a payment intent property all right let's take this for a spin so if we refresh the browser and hit pay then we're redirected to this after pay clear pay test payment page where we can decide to authorize the test payment or click fail test payment which will simulate the failure of a payment so let's click on authorized test payment and notice that we are redirected right back to this after pay clearpay path however in the query string we see return true so this is something that we added to our return url and now when we are returned to this route rather than just re-rendering the same component we want to refactor this a little bit so that we can render a separate component for to show the status of the payment and just to sort of thank the customer for for their payment so let's create a couple new components here we'll create the after pay clearpay component which will be sort of apparent for both the form and the return and this is where we will fork on that query string parameter so if there was return that return query string parameter then we will render the return component otherwise we will render our form component so we're going to grab reference to the query string using the use location hook we're going to say if the query string has the return key then we're going to return the after pay clearpay return component otherwise we'll return the after particular pay form component all right so for our after pay re clear pay return component this will be where we will retrieve the payment intent and display its status we are also going to import use location from react router dom so the after paid clearpay return component will again add an h1 saying this was an afterpay clearpay payment we'll add another thank you message and then again we're going to use the status messages component inside of the after pay clear pay return so that we can show the any messages that we uh would like without needing to import from the console looks like we actually forgot to add the status messages component to our form so let's do that too and then we're going to use again we're going to use the use messages hook to create a messages state variable and we're going to grab reference to stripe again and pull out the client secret from the query string parameters so if we look at the query string parameters you'll notice that one of the keys is payment intent client secret and that will have the client secret property for the payment intent in order to retrieve that payment intent from the stripe api using stripe.js we need to call stripe dot retrieve payment intent and pass in the client secret property retrieve payment intent returns a promise that will resolve with either an error property or the payment intent object if there was an error we'll log out that error to the status messages div otherwise we'll print out the payments id and its status now you'll notice that the compilation error we're seeing on the right hand side says that we we are not allowed to use a weight unless we're inside of an async function and so in order to get around this we're going to create just a little wrapper function called fetch payment intent while we're inside of this use effect hook we also need to check to make sure that stripe is loaded otherwise we'll return early okay now we can refresh the page and we see the id of the payment intent that test payment intent that we just created and in fact we can click on that that'll bring us to the stripe dashboard to show us the payment intent in the dashboard and we see that the payment intent had succeeded so this is all looking great let's go through the payment flow one last time so we'll refresh the page and click on pay we'll again authorize the test payment we're brought back to our return url where we now see the status of the payment intent and its id we can click on that payment intent id and drill into the stripe dashboard where again we see this payment for 19.99 in us dollars has succeeded all right so just as a super quick recap let's take a look back at index.js this is where the publishable key is being fetched and we're setting up the elements provider which wraps the entire application passing stripe down in app.js we imported after pay clearpay this new component that we just built and we added a new route that matches on after payclearpay to render that component then we built out this big afterpay clearpay form to collect the billing details the shipping details we added a form submission handler that said when the form is submitted we're going to create the payment intent on the server and we're going to pass the the payment method type in the currency we're going to use the client secret return from that call in order to confirm the payment on the client and we called confirm after pay clear pay payment passed in all those details that we collected from the client in order to confirm that payment when the payment was confirmed we were redirected to the after pay clear pay test page where we went through some payment flow and then we were redirected back to this return url which again had that return query string parameter allowing us to sort of switch on whether we're going to return this after pay clear pay return component or the form component and again in the after pay clearpay return component we pulled the payment intent client secret out of the query string parameter and used that to retrieve the payment intent with stripe.js when we called fetch payment intent all right so at this point you are fully equipped to go out and implement an after pay clearpay payment method in your react applications thank you so much for watching thanks for your time and attention and we'll see you in the next one

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