--- title: Accept an Apple Pay payment with Stripe.js slug: accept-an-apple-pay-payment-with-stripe-js published_at: 2021-05-10 17:00:04 +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 HTML and JavaScript. You'll learn how to use the payment request button 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 ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Verify server endpoints 01:58 Add Apple Pay button container to HTML 02:48 Create the PaymentRequest object 03:53 Create the PaymentRequestButton element 04:23 Check if we can make payment 05:47 Listen for the paymentmethod event 07:46 Review requirements for testing Apple Pay 08:39 Setup a ngrok tunnel 09:36 Register an Apple Pay domain 11:20 Create a PaymentIntent on the server 11:57 Confirm the PaymentIntent 15:10 Test Apple Pay 16:00 Recap ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources 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/html/apple-pay.js ngrok: https://ngrok.com/ ### 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, apple pay, Accept payment with apple pay, how to implement apple pay with stripe, Stripe Apple Pay, @cjav_dev] views: 20198 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/accept-an-apple-pay-payment-with-stripe-js youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcdQboA7Gc youtube_id: 5KcdQboA7Gc embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/5KcdQboA7Gc thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5KcdQboA7Gc/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Accept an Apple Pay payment with Stripe.js *Published: May 10, 2021* *Views: 20198* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcdQboA7Gc) [![Accept an Apple Pay payment with Stripe.js](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5KcdQboA7Gc/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KcdQboA7Gc) ## Description Learn the front end steps for accepting a payment with Apple Pay from your customers using a custom form in HTML and JavaScript. You'll learn how to use the payment request button 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 ### Table of contents 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Verify server endpoints 01:58 Add Apple Pay button container to HTML 02:48 Create the PaymentRequest object 03:53 Create the PaymentRequestButton element 04:23 Check if we can make payment 05:47 Listen for the paymentmethod event 07:46 Review requirements for testing Apple Pay 08:39 Setup a ngrok tunnel 09:36 Register an Apple Pay domain 11:20 Create a PaymentIntent on the server 11:57 Confirm the PaymentIntent 15:10 Test Apple Pay 16:00 Recap ### Presenter CJ Avilla - Developer Advocate at Stripe - https://twitter.com/cjav_dev ### Resources 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/html/apple-pay.js ngrok: https://ngrok.com/ ### 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 html and javascript to accept a one-time apple pay payment with a custom form so if you're interested in a faster integration path for accepting payments head over to the checkout playlist in the stripe developers channel as stripe checkout supports apple pay out of the box let's say that you already have a back end set up for creating payment intents and you want to add support for accepting the apple pay payment method on the front end now if you haven't already implemented a backend you can head over and take a look at one of those server implementations in one of the officially supported server languages also before we get too far if you're using react or ios or android we have videos specific to those clients linked in the description so head over and check those out so we have a back end it's already up and running here it has two endpoints one is at slash config for fetching our publishable key and the other is at create payment intent and that accepts a payment method type which is card and then a currency so this combo of payment method type and currency allows us to create a new payment intent on the server which is going to return just its client secret property so we're going to use this client secret to confirm the payment intent on the client now note that for apple pay and google pay and wallets that are similar to this we're going to use the payment method type card and that'll allow us to confirm the card payment on the client using one of these mobile wallets all right so let's take a look at what we've already got set up here so we have an index.html file that has some very simple html right now it's a single link to applepay.html so let's go implement applepay.html and looking in here we'll see that it's just very basic html page it's already importing stripe.js from js.stripe.com and it imports a little utility function which is uh enables us to just log some messages into this messages div here and then we have just a simple header and some links so the very first thing we need to do when collecting any payment request type wallet payment like apple pay is to add a button to our html page so i can do that with a simple div here that has the id payment request button and when we mount our payment request object it's going to be or that element it's going to be mounted into this div alright the next thing i want to do is just create another script here that's going to go to apple pay dot js and we will uh we'll go implement all of that from scratch here in applepay.js so this is going to be the meat and potatoes for today's episode we're going to create a wrapper so that all of our code only runs when the page finally loads and we'll initialize an instance of stripe with our publishable key so next we're going to create the button element that is going to display that apple pay button to our customers the very first thing that we need to do here is to create a paymentrequest object so we can say const paymentrequest is equal to stripe.paymentrequest which takes in an object with a bunch of arguments so we're going to pass the currency which is usd we're going to pass the country it is recommended that you request the payer's name so we're going to say request payer name true and request payor email is true and then now we get to configure what is actually shown on the payment sheet that pops up when someone clicks on apple pay so we can pass in the total here as an object that contains a label and an amount in safari stripe.paymentrequest here is going to use applepay but in all other browsers it's just going to use the underlying payment request api this paymentrequest object allows us to configure what the customer is going to see when they're going through that payment flow now we'll create a new payment request element with stripe elements we'll say const elements is equal to stripe.elements and then we're going to say const pr button is equal to elements.create payment request button which takes in reference to this payment request object so we're going to say this payment request is uh what we want to use with this payment request button so paymentrequest objects expose a method called can make payment which returns a promise that will resolve with an argument letting us know whether or not we're allowed or able to make a payment using a mobile wallet like apple pay or google pay so here we're going to get a result and if there's a result then we can display or like mount the element otherwise we want to hide the button in the case that we're mounting the element we can say pr button dot mount and then pass in the css selector that points at that div that we created earlier so this payment request button the div with id payment dash request button is what we will use as our css selector for where to mount this pr button element that we just created and then otherwise we want to just hide that button so we'll say document.get by id pass in that same string payment request button dot style.display is none [Music] now this payment request object will emit several events we can say payment request dot on and then pass in payment method all one word all lower case and this will emit an event when a new payment method has been added uh with the payment flow like through the payment flow so when someone successfully goes through the payment flow with apple pay we would like this event to fire inside of which what we will eventually create a payment intent on the server and then confirm the payment on the client for now we'll just console.log this event object okay all right let's see what we've got going on so if we reload our or if we open up a browser we open up safari and go to localhost 4242 this is our index page and when we open up apple pay we don't see any content here and that's because the apple pay button is not yet available on this page we're not seeing anything mounted that button was hidden so let's add a little bit of debugging here that says um if we were not able to hide or if we were not able to make a payment with apple pay let's add a message that just says like apple pay is unavailable so that we have a little bit of logging here okay it doesn't look like our logging is working so let's right click and say inspect and we see an error message here that says the there's a an unhandled rejection that says the currency should be one of all of these and we specified usd all caps so let's make this lower case and then refresh the page and now we see our message is printed that says apple pay is unavailable so that's good we're making some progress here now how do we actually test that apple pay is available so in order to experiment with apple pay in test mode a number of things need to be true number one we have to be testing with https right now this is not a secure this is not a secure connection we're just using http to localhost 4242. number two we have to be testing in safari and we have to have a saved card in safari i have some saved payment details in here but that's a step that you'll need to think about whether or not you have car details already set up in safari generally we need to have a domain that's actually registered with apple pay in order for this to work and so we can't really register a local host so instead we're going to use a workaround with ngrok however depending on your setup you may have to deploy to some staging environment and then use the domain for the staging environment but we do need a public-facing domain in order to register that with apple pay so let's first set up ngrok to set up a tunnel that will allow out public connections into our local server so we can use ngrok here i've set it up with brew with homebrew so you can head over to the documentation linked in the description for more info about how to set up ngrok but we're going to say ngrok http 4242 which will start an ngrok tunnel to our local our local server so notice that it will give you both http and https urls if you'd like to load those we're going to use https which will check one of our boxes for the requirements for using applepay so now instead of using localhost here i'm going to just use our our new ngrok domain and that allows us to pull up pull up the apple pay page here and we can still see that apple pay is unavailable because we we have a couple other steps that we need to take so the next step is that we need to con register our apple pay domain so let's go over to the stripe dashboard all right now that we're logged into the dashboard we want to add that ingrock domain directly to this apple pay domain web domain settings we're going to say add domain and we can drop in that ngrok domain that is the the first step here the second step is to download a verification file so we'll click download verification file that's going to end up in my downloads and we want to host that verification file at that domain slash dot well known slash and then the name of the verification file so in our case our frontend assets are stirred are served statically from that slash client directory so we need to create a new directory called dot well known and we need to copy this domain verification file that we just downloaded into that directory so that it's hosted as expected so let's open up here and go to our client directory and add a new dot well known directory and in the well known directory we're going to move the apple developer merchant id domain association file into that client well known directory and then we're going to say add and this will verify this will register our apple pay domain and verify it so that when we come back to our browser and refresh we see this big beautiful apple pay button so now we have we're serving over https we have a registered and verified apple pay domain we have some test card details that are entered into safari which is the the the browser that we're testing the next step that we need to take is to actually handle the event where this payment request ui will yield a payment method id so let's head back over to our code and open back up apple pay.js and continue on with this payment request event handler here so step one create a payment intent on server so we're gonna make a post request to our server's create payment intent endpoint and that will return a json object that has a client secret property that we want to extract and we need to pass the payment method type as card and the currency as usd back to our back end so that when we are creating this new payment intent we know that it is confirmable with card payment methods and then it uses the usd currency next we need to confirm that card payment on the client so we can call stripe dot confirm card payment and pass in that client secret that we just got back from the server and a second our second argument here is going to be a payment method and the payment method is actually going to be an id of a payment method that's on the event object yielded to us with the payment request api so this e this e-event object it's going to have a payment method property that will have the data about that payment method and it'll have its id next we want to say handle actions false this is a third argument to confirm card payment and we're saying don't handle any next actions like presenting the modal or redirecting to maybe the the bank's page that requires some one-time password so confirm card payment is going to open modals if there's 3d secure required and it'll handle secure customer authentication things like that we don't want that to happen while the payment sheet is open for apple pay so we want to say handle actions false for this first attempt to confirm the card payment so we're going to say so this confirm card payment method returns a promise that we can await and what if the promise the promise will resolve with either a an error or a payment intent object okay so if we get an error or if we receive an error from the payment the confirm card payment method so if error then we want to tell the payment sheet that there was some sort of failure so we can say e dot complete and pass in fail and that will fail the payment flow and it'll either keep the payment sheet open or it'll show an error so we can say return otherwise if there was a payment intent and its status was requires action then we want to call confirm card payment again with that same client secret so that if there were any modals that needed to be opened or redirects they need to happen those can happen so we'll say stripe dot confirm card payment again passing in the client secret and before we call that we actually do want to call e dot complete success here this will close the payment sheet until apple pay that the payment was successful let's add let's add just a little bit of logging so we'll say add message we client secret returned and we'll add a message here that says payment failed and we'll add a message down here that says payment succeeded and we'll put we can just put in the uh the id of the payment intent all right so we're going to click on this big apple pay button we see the sheet open we see processing and we're prompted to pay with touch id so on the touch bar i'm seeing touch id to pay demo 19.99 if i click or if i authenticate with my fingerprint i see processing payment and then the payment method is yielded from that on payment method event type and we can see that the payment succeeded so this is awesome we see that the payment was actually successful and if we click on this link or copy this id and visit that in our stripe dashboard we can see more details about this payment we see that it succeeded which payment method type it used and a few more details here all right so in review we added a little bit of html here to create a payment request button then we created a brand new javascript file called applepay.js where we said when the dom is ready initialize a new instance of stripe create a paymentrequest object and create an instance of a paymentrequestbuttonelement that we are going to then mount onto the page if the payment request can make a payment uh and then when a payment method is yielded to uh from the payment request object we're going to make a post request to the back end passing in our card and currency in order to create a new payment intent which we're then going to confirm client side here using confirm card payment and if there's some sort of failure we're going to tell the payment sheet that it failed otherwise we're going to say that it was successful and we're going to check and see if the payment intent status requires action then we're going to attempt to rerun the confirm card payment logic with that same client secret that we had from the server which will resolve any front-end next steps that are required you're now fully equipped to build a custom payment flow to accept a one-time apple pay payment with stripe you can head over and watch some other videos in this playlist to see how to accept different types of payment methods as always if you have any feedback please let us know by completing that feedback form linked in the description thanks so much and we'll see you next 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