JavaScript SDK

Our native SDK helps you communicate with the Client API. It offers:

• Convenient wrappers for API responses.
• Handling of all the details concerning the encryption of payment details.
• Caching of payment product logos and caching of images to offer additional information about payment products.
• User-friendly formatting of payment data such as card numbers and expiry dates.
• Validation of input.
• Checks to determine to which issuer a card number is associated.

Our example app simulates the user interface for the whole payment flow based on the interaction between the app and our platform. Find the source code of the SDK and the example app on GitHub, including installation instructions.

Once you are all set, read the next chapters on how to prepare and use the SDK.

To create payments, you need to integrate the SDK with your project at first. All versions of the SDK are publicly available in our repository. To simplify their use, we have prepared a package below for quick integration.

NPM

To take full advantage of this SDK, make sure you meet these requirements:

• Node v12+
• NPM v6+

From the root of the project, run npm ci to install the required dependencies.

Then, run npm run build. As a result, /dist/ (a distributable folder) will be created, containing both an original and minified version of

• onnlinepaymentssdk.noEncrypt.js: A fully bundled SDK source without the encryption components (default)
• onlinepaymentsdk.js: A fully bundled SDK source with the encryption components

After the successful integration of the SDK with your project, you can proceed to the process of integration with the entire payment system. The complete payment process consists of these steps:

1. Initialisation of Session and PaymentContext objects
2. Receiving possible payment methods
3. Receiving and displaying payment method details
4. Validation of provided data
5. Encryption and transfer of payment data
6. Finalising transaction

1. Initialise Session

Firstly, you need to create a Session enabling communication between the Server API and the client. Your app must have its own server, acting as an intermediary between our Client and Server API.

Since the customer initiates the payment in their app, the Client application asks the Server application to create a Session. When a Server application receives a request, it can create a Session via Create Session from the Server SDK.

After configuring and connecting your application to the Server API, you receive a response containing information about the created Session. A typical response looks like this:

{
    "assetUrl": "https://assets.test.cdn.v-psp.com/s2s/515c2c0bd13d5dd4bd42",
    "clientApiUrl": "https://payment.preprod.payone.com/",
    "clientSessionId": "68a4b0b183a34016b4b694b97938f75b",
    "customerId": "cf7d7aafd42e4a1cb9e4b0624a5041b1",
    "invalidTokens": []
}

Now pass assetUrl, clientApiUrl, clientSessionId and customerId to the Client application. Once the application receives a response from the Server application with information about the Session, create a local Session object on the Client application side.

2. Receive possible payment methods

The next step is to get and display the possible payment options. To do so, use the previously created Session to invoke the GetBasicPaymentItems method which sends GetPaymentProducts to our Server API.

Have a look at the code sample showing how to get the BasicPaymentItems list with the Session object.

var paymentDetails = 
{ 
  "totalAmount" : 16195,
  "countryCode" : "NL", 
  "locale" : "nl_NL", 
  "isRecurring" : false,
  "currency" : "EUR"
}; 

session.getBasicPaymentItems(paymentDetails, true).then(function (paymentItems) { 
	
    // Allow the customer to select a payment item and an optional
    // account on file from the list of payment items
    // represented by paymentItems.

 }, function() { 
    // Indicate that an error has occurred. 
});

3. Receive and display payment method details

Payment items are instances of BasicPaymentProduct. Your app can use these items to create a screen that lists them all. Use our convenient example application as a basis for your own implementation.

For some payment products, customers can indicate that they want our platform to store their credentials for recurring payments. We refer to the stored data as an account on file or token. You can reuse this account on file / token for subsequent payments if your customers chose the same payment method.

Depending on the method chosen by the customer, consider cases of different data flows:

For payments with a third-party payment provider, you receive data with the redirection address in the payment properties. Redirect your customers in their browser to the third-party payment portal to continue the payment process. After the successful payment, your app needs to handle the redirection to the Client app.

The standard payment process is a card payment. Once your customers have selected a payment item or a stored account on file, the Client SDK can request the necessary information your customers needs to provide for the payment.

An object representing the BasicPaymentItem payment method provides a list of the fields your app needs to render, including displaying hints and validation rules. If your customers select an account on file, information already available can be prefilled in the input fields instead of requesting it from your customers. The prefilled data on behalf of the customer is in line with applicable regulations. Depending on the individual use case, your customers still might have to provide some data (i.e. the CVC).

4. Validate provided data

Now your application needs to validate the data your customers enter in your application’s interface. To do so, use the data validation component. The data entry interface must be fully transparent and understandable for your customers. We recommend ToolTips, which have individual fields or display appropriate validation errors.

5. Encrypt and transfer payment data

Based on the collected data, you need to create a PaymentRequest instance. This class has a tokenize property used to indicate whether the app should store the customer’s credentials for recurring payments.
Use the following code sample for payment requests without accounts on file:

var paymentRequest = session.getPaymentRequest();
paymentRequest.setPaymentProduct(paymentProduct); 
paymentRequest.setTokenize(false);

Alternatively, adapt the code sample by supplying both the account on file and the corresponding payment product:

paymentRequest.setAccountOnFile(accountOnFile);     

Once you configure a payment request, supply the values for the payment product fields. Use the identifiers of the fields, such as "cardNumber” and "cvv" to set the field values for the payment request:

paymentRequest.setValue("cardNumber", "1245 1254 4575 45"); 
paymentRequest.setValue("cvv", "123"); 

Now you can validate the payment request. As a result, a list of errors is available. For any validation error, you need to provide feedback to the customer. For more information, read the dedicated chapter.

if (paymentRequest.isValid()) { 
     // The payment request is valid, you can encrypt and send it to our platform via your server .
}
else { 	
    // Notify the user that some fields contain invalid data.
   var errors = paymentRequest.getErrorMessageIds(); 
}

After the PaymentRequest validation, encrypt the request and send it to your Server application. Have a look at the code sample showing how to use an instance of Encryptor to encrypt a request:

encryptor = session.getEncryptor(); 
encryptor.encrypt(paymentRequest).then(function(encryptedString) {
    // Submit the information contained in the encrypted string
    // to our platform via your server.
}, function(errors) { 	
    // Indicate that an error has occurred.
});

6. Finalise transaction

After receiving the encrypted data, pass it to your server application to finalise the payment by sending a CreatePayment request.

Finally, you have to pass the information to the Client application to display the transaction result to your customers.

SDK Objects

The SDK includes several objects. Choose the object of your interest from the list below to read more about it:

• C2sCommunicator
• Session
• PaymentDetails
• BasicPaymentItem interface
  • BasicPaymentProduct
  • PaymentProduct
    • PaymentProductField
• AccountOnFile
• DisplayHints
  • ToolTips
  • FormElement
• PaymentRequest
• Util
• Responses

C2sCommunicator

This is the main communication service. You do not use it directly, but only through the Session object. It creates a secure connection with our Client API.

Session

Session is the main component of the SDK. The object:

• Wraps C2sCommunicator implementing all communication logic with our Client API.
• Creates proper API requests.
• Is responsible for converting the responses of the API into plain native objects.
• Has built-in encryption of native objects describing the payment request in a way our Server API can process it.

Make sure to initialise Session properly to start communication with our Client API. The mandatory properties are:

• client session identifier
• customer identifier
• client-api-url
• asset-base-url

You will get these parameters using the CreateSession from the Server API endpoint. Refer to the Server SDKs and the Server API to learn more.

The C2sCommunicatorConfiguration class has static methods to initialise Session:

// Note: a successful response from Create Session can be used directly as input 
var session = new directsdk.Session(
{ 
clientSessionId : "47e9dc332ca24273818be2a46072e006", 
customerId : "9991-0d93d6a0e18443bd871c89ec6d38a873", 
clientApiUrl : "https://clientapi.com", 
assetUrl : https://asset.com
});

Make sure to determine whether the application is running in production and specify the application identifier during the initialisation. An additional parameter specifies the IP address. The IP address and application identifier are used in the Device Metadata when communicating with the Client API.

Properties

string clientSessionId: The identifier of the created session. string customerId: The session is based on the customer in the form of the customerId. All Client APIs use this customerId. in the URI to identify the customer. string clientApiUrl: The datacentre-specific base URL for Client requests. Pass this value to the Client SDK to make sure that the Client software connects to the right data centre. string assetUrl: The datacentre-specific base URL for assets.

PaymentDetails

Instances of the PaymentDetails class contain the most relevant payment information such as:

• totalAmount
• currency
• countryCode
• isRecurring: An indication of whether the payment is a single payment or a Card On File.
• locale 

This object:

• Takes part the next steps of the transaction.
• Should remain in the same form after initialisation – you should use the same object through the entire transaction process.

Note that amount includes currency fractions. The object below is equal to 1 EUR:

"paymentDetails": {
            "amount": 100,
    "currencyCode": "EUR",
    "countryCode" : "GB", 
    "locale" : "en_GB", 
    "isRecurring" : false
        }

BasicPaymentItem interface

The main interface of BasicPaymentItem is primarily responsible for the identification and easy visual presentation of the payment item. It has:

• An Id identifier
• A DisplayHints list which contains the visual text ad (e.g., a logo or the picture of the card with CVC marked)
• A distinguishing feature of the payment method (e.g., a logo)
• Information about related AccountOnFile instances

BasicPaymentProduct

The main model of a payment product. It contains a list of available payment methods. The customer can select one method from this list. Each instance contains:

• An identifier.
• A field indicating the payment method of this product.
• Two fields that indicate the minimal and maximal amount required to pay with this payment product.
• A field indicating whether our platform can store the payment data as an account on file for subsequent payments.
• A field indicating whether the method allows Card On File.
• A field indicating whether the payment method uses redirection to a third party.
• A list of previously saved accounts on file for this payment product.
• Displays hints to render the BasicPaymentProduct appropriately, containing:
  • An index indicating at which position the payment product belongs in a list of payment products
  • A label
  • A logo

PaymentProduct

It extends the BasicPaymentProduct class and implements the PaymentItem interface that supplements the model with the PaymentProductField list. However, once the customer selects a payment item or an account on file, they must provide additional information (i.e. an address, a bank account number, a credit card number, or an expiry date) to process the actual payment.

Each payment item can have several fields that the customer needs to complete for processing payments. Instances of PaymentProductField represent information about the fields of payment items. Use it to retrieve instances of PaymentProduct:

var paymentProductId = "xyz"
 
// Create the PaymentDetails 
 
var paymentDetails = 
{ 
   "totalAmount" : 16195,
   "countryCode" : "NL", 
   "locale" : "nl_NL", 
   "isRecurring" : false,
   "currency" : "EUR" 
};

// Get selected PaymentProduct 

session.getPaymentProduct(paymentProductId,paymentDetails).then(function(paymentProduct) 
{ 
		// Create a payment request using the payment product
// represented by paymentProduct.
}, function() 
{ 
    // Indicate that an error has occurred.
});
 
// Get all available BasicPaymentItems for paymentContext 
 
session.getBasicPaymentItems(paymentDetails, true).then(function (basicPaymentItems) 
{
 	// Allow the customer to select a payment item and an optional
// account on file from the list of payment items
// represented by paymentItems.

}, function() 
{ 
     // Indicate that an error has occurred.
});

PaymentProductField

It represents fields of payment items. Each field has:

• An identifier
• Type
• A definition of restrictions that apply to the value of the field
• Information about how to present the field to the customer in the user interface

The model has a built-in data validation method to determine whether a given value is valid for the field. The method is based on DataRestrictions. It returns ValidationErrorMessages and methods for masking and uncasting the value by means of the built-in StringFormatter.

The code snippet below shows how to retrieve the field with the "cvv" identifier from a payment product. In this process, we:

• Inspect the data restrictions of the field to see whether this field is required or optional.
• Inspect the display hints of the field to see whether the values a customer provides should be obfuscated in a user interface.
• Validate the value "123".
• Inspect the number of validation errors to see whether the provided value is valid.

var cvvField = paymentProduct.paymentProductFieldById["cvv"]; 
var isRequired = cvvField.dataRestrictions.isRequired;
var obfuscate = cvvField.displayHints.obfuscate;
var isValid = cvvField.isValid("123");
var validationErrors = cvvField.getErrorCodes("123");

AccountOnFile

AccountOnFile represents information about an account on file for a certain payment product. It contains:

• An identifier for the account on file.
• An identifier for the corresponding payment product.
• A collection of key-value pairs stored as a part of the account on file.
• Display hints that contain information about how to render the account on file.
• A method that produces a label describing the account on file.

Retrieve instances of AccountOnFile as instances of BasicPaymentProduct as follows:

// this is an array of AccountOnFile objects 
var accountsOnFile = basicPaymentItems.accountsOnFile; 
// This returns the Visa BasicPaymentProduct object in this PaymentProducts object if it exists. 
var paymentProduct = basicPaymentItems.paymentProductById["1"];

DisplayHints

DisplayHints are objects containing hints. There are three types of DisplayHints:

• PaymentProductDisplayHints: The most important information about PaymentProduct, i.e., a name and a logo. An additional property is displayOrder which indicates the appropriate display order according to the order index in relation to other PaymentProduct used by BasicPaymentProducts. Use them to display the PaymentProduct selection list.
• AccountOnFileDisplayHints : The list containing the ProductFields key-value pairs and the corresponding mask to apply the mask (e.g. asterisks) to the corresponding value from AccountOnFile.
• PaymentProductFieldsDisplayHints: Defines the way of displaying PaymentProductFields. In addition to the name and placeholder, it contains PreferredInputType, based on which you can choose:
  • The appropriate type of keyboard you should use.
  • Whether the element must always be displayed as AlwaysShow.
  • Whether the Obfuscate value should be obfuscated, as well as the value of Mask – a reference to the assigned ToolTip and FormElement.

ToolTips

ToolTips facilitate data entry. You can add a ToolTip object in the display hints for PaymentProductFields. It can contain an explanation text or a graphic, i.e. a photo of a card with an obfuscated CVV.

FormElement

A simplified description of the visual element instructing you to use it appropriately as either text, list, currency, date or boolean.

PaymentRequest

This class wraps the relationship between the selected PaymentProduct, AccountOnFile and the entered values. It allows you to easily extract masked or unmasked values. It contains a method of validating the entered data. Check the dedicated encryption chapter for more information.

Util

A built-in class containing tools you may use to facilitate your work with code, such as

• getMetadata: Returns Metadata such as screenSize, platformIdentifier, sdkIdentifier and sdkCreator.
• collectDeviceInformation: Collects the most important information: timezoneOffsetUtcMinutes, locale, and browserData.
• base64Encode: Encodes to base64.
• filterOutProductThatAreNotSupportedInThisBrowser: Filters the payment methods available to the customer.

Responses

• IinDetailsResponse: The response for the issuer identification number check.
• PublicKeyResponse: Client API you use to retrieve a transaction-specific public key from our server. Use it to encrypt sensitive data, i.e. card details. This object automatically returns an already decrypted public key from our API.

Additional Features

The SDK has a lot more to offer. Have a look at the following features, as they will help you build the perfect solution.

• Encrypt sensitive data
• Validate data
• Apply IIN check
• Localise app
• Use demo application

Encrypt sensitive data

One of the biggest assets of the SDK is its encryption tool. It offers great security when transferring sensitive data (i.e. card numbers, expiry date, CVC code). An entire encryption/transfer flow looks like this:

You do not need to do all this steps on your own. Thanks to the SDK, your tasks are as follows:

1. When your customers completes all the required payment inputs and confirms the payment, create the PaymentRequest object, assign the selected PaymentProduct to it and fill it with the entered values.
2. Validate the created PaymentRequest using the Validate method.
3. If there are no validation errors, use an Encryptor object and call the Encrypt method. It will carry out the entire encryption process for you and return the encrypted data.
4. Send the encrypted data to your server.
5. Your server sends the encrypted data using the CreatePayment method in the request body field – encryptedCustomerInput.
6. You send the transaction result to the client application.

The encryptor wraps JOSEEncryptor. It is possible to use JOSEEncryptor directly, but you will miss the helper functionality that encryptor offers. We do not guarantee correct operations as a result of poorly encrypted data. Note that we are not able to check encrypted data for errors. Therefore, you should make sure that all previous operations have been carried out correctly.

If you want to use JOSEEncryptor directly, you have to provide the data in the following JSON:

{ 
   "clientSessionId": "9991-89034758982340982334234234", 
   "nonce": "067e6162-3b6f-4ae2-a171-2470b63dff00",
   "paymentProductId": 1, 
   "accountOnFileId": 3, 
   "tokenize": true, 
  "paymentValues": [
    { "key": "cvv", "value": "159" }, 
    { "key": "expiryDate", "value": "1115" }, 
    { "key": "cardNumber", "value": "4242424242424242" } 
    ]
}

Validate data

Each PaymentProductField has appropriate DataRestrictions. The DataRestrictions object contains information about all mandatory fields and validates whether values entered meet the correctness condition. Together with a list of abstract validators, it has also a property isRequired informing whether given restrictions are required or not.

You can validate a particular input just as easy as through the PaymentRequest validation. In case of any errors, the Errors field will display a list of errors.

It contains following validators:

• Expiration Date: Checks whether the entered card expiration date is not earlier than the current date and whether it is not beyond the range of twenty-five years ahead.
• Email Address: Checks the format of the email address the customer has provided.
• Fixed List: Checks whether the entered value is on the list of possibilities.
• IBAN: Validates the IBAN the customer has provided.
• Length: Checks if the entered value is longer than the minimum value and if it is not longer than the maximum value.
• Luhn: The checksum formula used to validate a variety of identification numbers, such as credit card numbers.
• Range: Checks if the value is greater than the minimum value and if it is not greater than the maximum value.
• Regex: Validates that the entered value matches the regular expression.
• TermsAndConditions: The boolean validator for the terms and conditions accept field.

Each validator returns an appropriate error, indicating a field that does not meet the conditions, and a message you can easily translate.

Apply IIN check

The first eight digits of a payment card number are known as the Issuer Identification Number (IIN).

You can use an instance of Session to check which payment products are associated with an IIN. The check is performed asynchronously, thus the check result is not available immediately. The result is an instance of IinDetailsResponse. This class has the following of properties:

• paymentProductId: The primary payment product associated with this IIN.
• countryCode: The country code of the primary payment product associated with this IIN.
• status: Type of IinStatus that indicates the result of the IIN check. The possible statuses are:
  • SUPPORTED: The IIN is associated with a payment product available on our platform
  • UNKNOWN: The IIN is not recognised
  • NOT_ENOUGH_DIGITS: Less than six digits have been provided
  • EXISTING_BUT_NOT_ALLOWED: The IIN is recognised, but it cannot be used for the current payment.
• isAllowedInContext: Indicates whether it is allowed to do a payment with the primary payment product based on the PaymentContext
• coBrands: A list of instances of IinDetail, which depict co-brands for the current IIN.

It is possible that a single credit card has multiple brands associated to it and is thereby 'co-brandend'. The details of the first payment product your customers can use for making the payment in that context are always stored in the top-level fields of the IinDetailsResponse. If co-branding applies, the list of instances of IinDetail contains all brands associated with the card, including the payment product that is stored in the top-level fields. Use this list to let the customers choose their preferred brand. If there is only one payment product associated with the credit card, the list of IIN Details is empty.

var paymentDetails = { 
"totalAmount" : 16195, // in cents 
"countryCode" : "NL", 
"locale": "nl_NL", 
"isRecurring" : false, // set if recurring 
"currency": "EUR" // set currency
}; 

var firstSixDigitsOfCreditcardNumber = "123456"; 

session.getIinDetails(firstSixDigitsOfCreditcardNumber,paymentDetails).then(function(iinDetailsResponse) { 

// The promise has fulfilled. 
}, 
function(errors) { 	
// The promise failed, inform the user what happened.
});

Localise app

Our SDK offers localised labels for all entities you request via the Client API. You can achieve this by setting the "locale" field of the paymentDetails object to the correct value when doing a getPaymentProducts call. You can change to a different language anytime during the payment flow by re-sending the request.

Use demo application

The example app illustrates the possibilities of the SDK and the services our platform offers. Find the source code on GitHub. You can use this code as the basis of your application. The example app consists of four screens:

• The first screen asks for the information necessary to communicate with the Client API and retrieve a list of payment products. This screen should not be part of an actual application in the application store. We provide it to illustrate which information is needed to initialise an instance of Session
• The second screen is a dynamically generated payment product selection screen. Based on the input provided in the first screen, the app displays a list of available payment products and previously stored accounts on file. This screen or a similar screen would typically be a part of an actual application. See for more details below.
• After selecting a payment product, the app displays the third screen or getting customer input. The customer can only confirm the payment once the SDK has validated the input. Also, this screen or a similar screen would be part of an actual application. See for more details below.
• The fourth screen indicates that the SDK has successfully processed the initiated payment This screen should not be part of an actual app.

Payment product selection screen

The payment product selection screen provides an example for one of the two screens that will appear in most apps using the SDK. It shows a list of available payment items and accounts on file. For each payment item / account on file, it displays a localised name/a short description of the stored information. If a logo is available for a payment item, the screen will display it.

The screen contains a part of a list of available payment items, generated from the information contained in an instance of BasicPaymentItems.

Form validation

The example app uses the SDK to validate the customer input provided when they press the Pay button. If the provided data is invalid, error messages are shown below the invalid values.

Additional information

Some payment product fields might require some additional explanation. The information button next to the text field for the CVV code shown below indicates that additional information is available. The image shown when the customer presses the button is a part of the display hints of the payment product field. The textual explanation is a localised string that is part of the SDK.

IIN check

The example application also demonstrates the use of the IIN check described above. For each of the card-based payment products, an IIN check is performed once the customer has entered six or more digits in the text field for the card number. If the IIN is associated to the selected payment product, the logo of this payment product appears on the right-hand side of the text field. If the IIN is associated to another payment product, the input fields are automatically replaced with the input fields for the new payment product.

The screenshot also shows how the co-brands that may be associated to a certain card may be rendered. The payment product logo and name of the co-brands are retrieved by doing specific calls for them.