Adding Online Payment Support in Online Event Frontend via Stripe

Open Event Frontend involves ticketing system which supports both paid and free tickets. To buy a paid ticket Open Event provides several options such as debit card, credit card, cheque, bank transfer and onsite payments. So to add support for debit and credit card payments Open Event uses stripe checkout. Using stripe users can enter their card details and pay for their ticket.

Given below are some steps which are to be followed for successfully charging a user for ticket using his/her card.

  • We get publishable key for organizer’s stripe account using OAuth. See this blog.
  • We render stripe checkout button using stripe publishable key. This helps us identify which user to credit after payment.
  • After clicking checkout button user is prompted to enter his/her card details and verify payment.
  • After user’s verification stripe generates a payment token is which is used by open event frontend to charge the user for stipulated amount.
  • We send this token to open event server which processes the token and charge the user.
  • We get error or success message from open event server as per the process outcome.

To render the stripe checkout button we use ember-cli-stripe. Below is the code which helps us to understand how stripe checkout button is rendered.

// app/templates/orders/placed.hbs 

{{stripe-checkout
    locale='auto'
    name="Open Event"
    description=paymentDescription
    amount=paymentAmount
    key=model.event.stripeAuthorization.stripePublishableKey
    onToken=(action "processStripeToken")
    onClosed=(action "checkoutClosed")
    onOpened=(action "checkoutOpened")
}}

 

Full code can be seen here.

We see that we pass different parameters to stripe button which helps stripe identify how to render the button and what information to display. We have also passed the actions onToken(), onClosed() and onOpened(). All these actions are triggered at different instances based on what event occurs.

onToken(): This action is triggered when user has verified his/her purchase and we stripe has generated the payment token. Stripe passes the token back to client (open event frontend server) to process. We have handled this error via different name “processStripeToken()”. We will see cose for these actions below.

onClosed(): This action is called when checkout prompt is closed. We have not used this action in open event frontend. But this can be used to trigger some event in case your application need some action when checkout prompt is closed.

onOpened(): This action is called when checkout prompt is opened. We have not used this action in open event frontend. But this can be used to trigger some event in case your application need some action when checkout prompt is opened.

Code for these actions are given below. Full code file can be seen here.

//  app/controllers/orders/placed.js 

processStripeToken(token) {
   // Send this token to server to process payment
   let order = this.get('model');
   let chargePayload = {
     'data': {
       'attributes': {
         'stripe'            : token.id,
         'paypal_payer_id'   : null,
         'paypal_payment_id' : null
       },
       'type': 'charge'
     }
   };
   let config = {
     skipDataTransform: true
   };
   chargePayload = JSON.stringify(chargePayload);
   return this.get('loader').post(`orders/${order.identifier}/charge`, chargePayload, config)
     .then(charge => {
       if (charge.data.attributes.status) {
         this.get('notify').success(charge.data.attributes.message);
         this.transitionToRoute('orders.view', order.identifier);
       } else {
         this.get('notify').error(charge.data.attributes.message);
       }
     });
 }

 

In above code snippet for processStipeToken() we are processing the stripe payment token received from stripe after user verifies his/her payment. We pass this token to charge endpoint of open event server. After charging the user server send a response which is displayed on frontend.

In this way we achieve the functionality of adding stripe payment support in open event frontend. Please follow the links below for further clarification and detailed overview.

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Adding Online Payment Support in Open Event Frontend via PayPal

Open Event Frontend involves ticketing system which supports both paid and free tickets. To buy a paid ticket Open Event provides several options such as debit card, credit card, cheque, bank transfer and onsite payments. So to add support for debit and credit card payments Open Event uses Paypal checkout as one of the options. Using paypal checkout screen users can enter their card details and pay for their ticket or they can use their paypal wallet money to pay for their tickets.

Given below are some steps which are to be followed for successfully charging a user for ticket using his/her card.

  • We create an application on paypal developer dashboard to receive client id and secret key.
  • We set these keys in admin dashboard of open event and then while checkout we use these keys to render checkout screen.
  • After clicking checkout button a request is sent to create-paypal-payment endpoint of open event server to create a paypal token which is used in checkout procedure.
  • After user’s verification paypal generates a payment id is which is used by open event frontend to charge the user for stipulated amount.
  • We send this token to open event server which processes the token and charge the user.
  • We get error or success message from open event server as per the process outcome.

To render the paypal checkout elements we use paypal checkout library provided by npm. Paypal button is rendered using Button.render method of paypal checkout library. Code snippet is given below.

// app/components/paypal-button.js

paypal.Button.render({
   env: 'sandbox',

   commit: true,

   style: {
     label : 'pay',
     size  : 'medium', // tiny, small, medium
     color : 'gold', // orange, blue, silver
     shape : 'pill'    // pill, rect
   },

   payment() {
   // this is used to obtain paypal token to initialize payment process 
   },

   onAuthorize(data) {
     // this callback will be for authorizing the payments
    }

 }, this.elementId);

 

After button is rendered next step is to obtain a payment token from create-paypal-payment endpoint of open event server. For this we use the payment() callback of paypal-checkout. Code snippet for payment callback method is given below:

// app/components/paypal-button.js

let createPayload = {
      'data': {
        'attributes': {
          'return-url' : `${window.location.origin}/orders/${order.identifier}/placed`,
          'cancel-url' : `${window.location.origin}/orders/${order.identifier}/placed`
        },
        'type': 'paypal-payment'
      }
    };
paypal.Button.render({
     //Button attributes

      payment() {
        return loader.post(`orders/${order.identifier}/create-paypal-payment`, createPayload)
          .then(res => {
            return res.payment_id;
          });
      },

      onAuthorize(data) {
        // this callback will be for authorizing the payments
      }

    }, this.elementId);

 

After getting the token payment screen is initialized and user is asked to enter his/her credentials. This process is handled by paypal servers. After user verifies his/her payment paypal generates a paymentId and a payerId and sends it back to open event. After the payment authorization onAuthorize() method of paypal is called and payment is further processed in this callback method. Payment ID and payer Id received from paypal is sent to charge endpoint of open event server to charge the user. After receiving success or failure message from paypal proper message is displayed to users and their order is confirmed or cancelled respectively. Code snippet for onAuthorize is given below:

// app/components/paypal-button.js

onAuthorize(data) {
        // this callback will be for authorizing the payments
        let chargePayload = {
          'data': {
            'attributes': {
              'stripe'            : null,
              'paypal_payer_id'   : data.payerID,
              'paypal_payment_id' : data.paymentID
            },
            'type': 'charge'
          }
        };
        let config = {
          skipDataTransform: true
        };
        chargePayload = JSON.stringify(chargePayload);
        return loader.post(`orders/${order.identifier}/charge`, chargePayload, config)
          .then(charge => {
            if (charge.data.attributes.status) {
              notify.success(charge.data.attributes.message);
              router.transitionTo('orders.view', order.identifier);
            } else {
              notify.error(charge.data.attributes.message);
            }
          });
      }

 

Full code can be seen here.

In this way we achieve the functionality of adding paypal payment support in open event frontend. Please follow the links below for further clarification and detailed overview.

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