Hi
I need to make a payment with the card that was attached to the customer.
how could I do that?
the goal is to have some clients with saved cards and to have possibility to charge their cards, but its not a recurrent event
as I understand this action is possible in case of storing client’s cards but how to implement that?
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Cards API
Save a Card on File
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Card on file - A seller can store customer profiles in the seller’s Customer Directory and then add a card on file for the customer. Applications can later charge the card on file by setting the card ID as the source_id value in a CreatePayment request. In this case, the customer_id is also required in the request.
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To make a payment with a card attached to a customer, you would use the Payments API and the Cards API.
First, you would save a card on file for a customer using the Cards API’s CreateCard endpoint. This requires a payment token, which can be generated using the Web Payments SDK or In-App Payments SDK.
Once the card is saved on file, you can use the Payments API’s CreatePayment endpoint to process a payment with the saved card. In the CreatePayment request, you would set the source_id to the card ID of the saved card and the customer_id to the ID of the customer.
Remember to always ask customers for permission before saving their card information and charging their cards.
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