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One-time payments with Checkout Client-only integration

Learn how to accept one-time card payments with just a few lines of code.

With the client-only integration, you define your products directly in the Stripe Dashboard and reference them by ID on the client side. This approach makes it possible to integrate Checkout into your website without any server-side code.

The client-only integration has several limitations:

  • Only card payments are supported. Other payment methods are not supported.
  • Coupons, Discounts, Promotion codes, and Tax rates are not supported.
  • Creating one-time payments with existing Customer objects is not supported.
  • Placing a hold on a card before charging it is not supported.
  • One-time and recurring payments in a single transaction is not supported.
  • Connect platforms cannot use this integration on behalf of their connected accounts.

1 Enable Checkout Dashboard

To begin using Checkout, log into the Stripe Dashboard and navigate to the Checkout settings. From here you can enable the client-only integration and customize the look and feel of your checkout page.

2 Create products and prices

To use Checkout, you first need to create a Product and a Price. Different physical goods or levels of service should be represented by products. Each product’s pricing is represented by one or more prices.

For example, you can create a T-shirt product that has 2 prices for different currencies: $20 USD and €15 Euro. This allows you to change and add prices without needing to change the details of your underlying products. You can either create a product and price through the API or through the Stripe Dashboard.

Make sure you are in test mode by toggling the View test data button at the bottom of the Stripe Dashboard. Next, define the items you want to sell. To create a new product and price:

  • Navigate to the Products section in the Dashboard
  • Click Add product
  • Select One time when setting the price

The product name, description, and image that you supply are displayed to customers in Checkout.

To create a Product with the API, only a name is required. The product name, description, and images that you supply are displayed to customers on Checkout.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/products \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \
  -d name=T-shirt

product = Stripe::Product.create(
  {
    name: 'T-shirt',
  }
)

product = stripe.Product.create(
  name='T-shirt',
)

$product = \Stripe\Product::create([
  'name' => 'T-shirt',
]);

ProductCreateParams params = ProductCreateParams.builder()
  .setName("T-shirt")
  .build();
Product product = Product.create(params);

const product = await stripe.products.create({
  name: 'T-shirt',
});

params := &stripe.ProductParams{
  Name: stripe.String("T-shirt"),
}
p, _ := product.New(params)

var productService = new ProductService();
var options = new ProductCreateOptions
{
    Name = "T-shirt",
};
var product = productService.Create(options);

Next, create a Price to define how much to charge for your product. This includes how much the product costs and what currency to use.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/prices \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc: \
  -d product="{{PRODUCT_ID}}" \
  -d unit_amount=2000 \
  -d currency=usd

price = Stripe::Price.create(
  {
    product: '{{PRODUCT_ID}}',
    unit_amount: 2000,
    currency: 'usd',
  }
)

price = stripe.Price.create(
  product='{{PRODUCT_ID}}',
  unit_amount=2000,
  currency='usd',
)

$price = \Stripe\Price::create([
  'product' => '{{PRODUCT_ID}}',
  'unit_amount' => 2000,
  'currency' => 'usd',
]);

PriceCreateParams params = PriceCreateParams.builder()
  .setProduct("{{PRODUCT_ID}}")
  .setUnitAmount(2000)
  .setCurrency("usd")
  .build();
Price price = Price.create(params);

const price = await stripe.prices.create({
  product: '{{PRODUCT_ID}}',
  unit_amount: 2000,
  currency: 'usd',
});

params := &stripe.PriceParams{
    Product: stripe.String("{{PRODUCT_ID}}"),
    UnitAmount: stripe.Int64(2000),
    Currency: stripe.String("usd"),
}
p, _ := price.New(params)

var priceService = new PriceService();
var options = new PriceCreateOptions
{
    Product = "{{PRODUCT_ID}}",
    UnitAmount = 2000,
    Currency = "usd",
};
var price = priceService.Create(options);

3 Redirect to Checkout Dashboard Client-side

To use Checkout on your website, you must add a snippet of code that includes the desired price. You can use the Dashboard to generate the necessary code, or you can write it yourself.

In the Products section of the Dashboard, select the product that you want to sell.

In the product detail view, click the Get Checkout code snippet selection in the overflow menu next to a price to generate a code snippet that you can add to your website.

Copy and paste the snippet into the body of a web page. The snippet adds a button to the page that, when clicked, redirects the customer to Checkout. You can include multiple checkout buttons on the same page.

When your customer successfully completes their payment, they are redirected to the success URL that you specified when configuring the code snippet. Typically, this is a page on your website that informs the customer that their payment was successful.

When your customer clicks on your logo in a Checkout session without completing a payment, Checkout redirects them back to your website by navigating to the cancel URL you specified when configuring the code snippet. Typically, this is the page on your website that the customer viewed prior to redirecting to Checkout.

Before going live, make sure to configure your domains list in the Dashboard to match the success and cancel URLs.

Checkout relies on Stripe.js. To get started, include the following script tag on your website—it should always be loaded directly from https://js.stripe.com:

<script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"></script>

npm install @stripe/stripe-js

Next, create an instance of the Stripe object by providing your publishable API key as the first parameter:

var stripe = Stripe('pk_test_TYooMQauvdEDq54NiTphI7jx');

import {loadStripe} from '@stripe/stripe-js';

const stripe = await loadStripe('pk_test_TYooMQauvdEDq54NiTphI7jx');

When your customer is ready to pay, call redirectToCheckout to begin the checkout process. Pass it an array of objects that specify the price ID and the quantity of each item that the customer wishes to purchase:

stripe.redirectToCheckout({
  lineItems: [{
    price: '{{PRICE_ID}}', // Replace with the ID of your price
    quantity: 1,
  }],
  mode: 'payment',
  successUrl: 'https://example.com/success',
  cancelUrl: 'https://example.com/cancel',
}).then(function (result) {
  // If `redirectToCheckout` fails due to a browser or network
  // error, display the localized error message to your customer
  // using `result.error.message`.
});

const {error} = await stripe.redirectToCheckout({
  lineItems: [{
    price: '{{PRICE_ID}}', // Replace with the ID of your price
    quantity: 1,
  }],
  mode: 'payment',
  successUrl: 'https://example.com/success',
  cancelUrl: 'https://example.com/cancel',
})
// If `redirectToCheckout` fails due to a browser or network
// error, display the localized error message to your customer
// using `error.message`.

When your customer successfully completes their payment, they are redirected to the success URL. Typically, this is a page on your website that informs the customer that their payment was successful.

When your customer clicks on your logo in a Checkout Session without completing a payment, they are redirected to the cancel URL. Typically, this is the page on your website the customer viewed prior to redirecting to Checkout.

Before going live, make sure to configure your domains list in the Dashboard to match the success and cancel URLs.

Install the Stripe.js module. Always load Stripe.js directly from https://js.stripe.com. You can’t include it in a bundle or host it yourself.

npm install @stripe/stripe-js

Add Stripe.js to your page

Call loadStripe with your publishable key. It returns a Promise that resolves with the Stripe object once Stripe.js has loaded. When the customer clicks the checkout button, call redirectToCheckout to begin the payment process. Pass it an array of objects containing the price ID, quantity, a success URL, and a cancel URL.

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { loadStripe } from '@stripe/stripe-js';
// Make sure to call `loadStripe` outside of a component’s render to avoid
// recreating the `Stripe` object on every render.
const stripePromise = loadStripe('pk_test_TYooMQauvdEDq54NiTphI7jx');

function App() {
  const handleClick = async (event) => {
    // When the customer clicks on the button, redirect them to Checkout.
    const stripe = await stripePromise;
    const { error } = await stripe.redirectToCheckout({
      lineItems: [{
        price: '{{PRICE_ID}}', // Replace with the ID of your price
        quantity: 1,
      }],
      mode: 'payment',
      successUrl: 'https://example.com/success',
      cancelUrl: 'https://example.com/cancel',
    });
    // If `redirectToCheckout` fails due to a browser or network
    // error, display the localized error message to your customer
    // using `error.message`.
  };
  return (
    <button role="link" onClick={handleClick}>
      Checkout
    </button>
  );
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

When your customer successfully completes their payment, they are redirected to the success URL. Typically, this is a page on your website that informs the customer that their payment was successful.

When your customer clicks on your logo in a Checkout Session without completing a payment, they are redirected to the cancel URL. Typically, this is the page on your website the customer viewed prior to redirecting to Checkout.

4 Confirm the payment is successful

When your customer completes a payment, they’re redirected to the URL that you specified as the success_url. This is typically a page on your website that informs your customer that their payment was successful.

Use the Dashboard, a custom webhook, or a third-party plugin to handle post-payment events like sending an order confirmation email to your customer, logging the sale in a database, or starting a shipping workflow.

Successful payments appear in the Dashboard’s list of payments. When you click a payment, it takes you to the payment detail page. The Checkout summary section contains billing information and the list of items purchased, which you can use to manually fulfill the order.

Set up webhooks to programmatically handle post-payment events. The quickest way to develop and test webhooks locally is with the Stripe CLI. Once you have it installed, you can forward events to your server:

stripe listen --forward-to localhost:4242/webhook
Ready! Your webhook signing secret is '{{WEBHOOK_SIGNING_SECRET}}' (^C to quit)

When your customer completes a payment, Stripe sends the checkout.session.completed event. This event includes the Checkout Session object, which contains details about your customer and their payment.

With a webhook endpoint, your customer is redirected to the success_url when you acknowledged you received the event. In scenarios where your endpoint is down or the event isn’t acknowledged properly, your customer is redirected to the success_url 10 seconds after a successful payment.

The following example endpoint demonstrates how to acknowledge and handle events.

# Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
# See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
Stripe.api_key = 'sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc'

# You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
endpoint_secret = 'whsec_...'

# Using Sinatra
post '/webhook' do
  payload = request.body.read
  event = nil

  # Verify webhook signature and extract the event
  # See https://stripe.com/docs/webhooks/signatures for more information.
  sig_header = request.env['HTTP_STRIPE_SIGNATURE']
  begin
    event = Stripe::Webhook.construct_event(
      payload, sig_header, endpoint_secret
    )
  rescue JSON::ParserError => e
    # Invalid payload
    status 400
    return
  rescue Stripe::SignatureVerificationError => e
    # Invalid signature
    status 400
    return
  end

  # Handle the checkout.session.completed event
  if event['type'] == 'checkout.session.completed'
    session = event['data']['object']

    # Fulfill the purchase...
    handle_checkout_session(session)
  end

  status 200
end

# Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
# See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
stripe.api_key = 'sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc'

# Using Django
from django.http import HttpResponse

# You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
endpoint_secret = 'whsec_...'

@csrf_exempt
def my_webhook_view(request):
  payload = request.body
  sig_header = request.META['HTTP_STRIPE_SIGNATURE']
  event = None

  try:
    event = stripe.Webhook.construct_event(
      payload, sig_header, endpoint_secret
    )
  except ValueError as e:
    # Invalid payload
    return HttpResponse(status=400)
  except stripe.error.SignatureVerificationError as e:
    # Invalid signature
    return HttpResponse(status=400)

  # Handle the checkout.session.completed event
  if event['type'] == 'checkout.session.completed':
    session = event['data']['object']

    # Fulfill the purchase...
    handle_checkout_session(session)

  return HttpResponse(status=200)

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

// You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
$endpoint_secret = 'whsec_...';

$payload = @file_get_contents('php://input');
$sig_header = $_SERVER['HTTP_STRIPE_SIGNATURE'];
$event = null;

try {
  $event = \Stripe\Webhook::constructEvent(
    $payload, $sig_header, $endpoint_secret
  );
} catch(\UnexpectedValueException $e) {
  // Invalid payload
  http_response_code(400);
  exit();
} catch(\Stripe\Exception\SignatureVerificationException $e) {
  // Invalid signature
  http_response_code(400);
  exit();
}

// Handle the checkout.session.completed event
if ($event->type == 'checkout.session.completed') {
  $session = $event->data->object;

  // Fulfill the purchase...
  handle_checkout_session($session);
}

http_response_code(200);

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
Stripe.apiKey = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc";

// You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
String endpointSecret = "whsec_...";

// Using the Spark framework (http://sparkjava.com)
public Object handle(Request request, Response response) {
  String payload = request.body();
  String sigHeader = request.headers("Stripe-Signature");
  Event event = null;

  try {
    event = Webhook.constructEvent(
      payload, sigHeader, endpointSecret
    );
  } catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {
    // Invalid payload
    response.status(400);
    return "";
  } catch (SignatureVerificationException e) {
    // Invalid signature
    response.status(400);
    return "";
  }

  // Handle the checkout.session.completed event
  if ("checkout.session.completed".equals(event.getType())) {
    Session session = (Session) event.getDataObjectDeserializer().getObject();

    // Fulfill the purchase...
    handleCheckoutSession(session);
  }

  response.status(200);
  return "";
}

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
const Stripe = require('stripe');
const stripe = Stripe('sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc');

// Find your endpoint's secret in your Dashboard's webhook settings
const endpointSecret = 'whsec_...';

// Using Express
const app = require('express')();

// Use body-parser to retrieve the raw body as a buffer
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

// Match the raw body to content type application/json
app.post('/webhook', bodyParser.raw({type: 'application/json'}), (request, response) => {
  const sig = request.headers['stripe-signature'];

  let event;

  try {
    event = stripe.webhooks.constructEvent(request.body, sig, endpointSecret);
  } catch (err) {
    return response.status(400).send(`Webhook Error: ${err.message}`);
  }

  // Handle the checkout.session.completed event
  if (event.type === 'checkout.session.completed') {
    const session = event.data.object;

    // Fulfill the purchase...
    handleCheckoutSession(session);
  }

  // Return a response to acknowledge receipt of the event
  response.json({received: true});
});

app.listen(8000, () => console.log('Running on port 8000'));

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
stripe.Key = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc"

http.HandleFunc("/webhook", func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
    const MaxBodyBytes = int64(65536)
    req.Body = http.MaxBytesReader(w, req.Body, MaxBodyBytes)
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error reading request body: %v\n", err)
        w.WriteHeader(http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
        return
    }

    // Pass the request body & Stripe-Signature header to ConstructEvent, along with the webhook signing key
    // You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
    endpointSecret := "whsec_...";
    event, err := webhook.ConstructEvent(body, req.Header.Get("Stripe-Signature"), endpointSecret)

    if err != nil {
        fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error verifying webhook signature: %v\n", err)
        w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest) // Return a 400 error on a bad signature
        return
    }

    // Handle the checkout.session.completed event
    if event.Type == "checkout.session.completed" {
        var session stripe.CheckoutSession
        err := json.Unmarshal(event.Data.Raw, &session)
        if err != nil {
            fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error parsing webhook JSON: %v\n", err)
            w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
            return
        }

        // Fulfill the purchase...
        handleCheckoutSession(session)
    }

    w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
})

// Set your secret key. Remember to switch to your live secret key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/account/apikeys
StripeConfiguration.ApiKey = "sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc";

using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Stripe;

namespace workspace.Controllers
{
    [Route("api/[controller]")]
    public class StripeWebHook : Controller
    {
        // You can find your endpoint's secret in your webhook settings
        const string secret = "whsec_...";

        [HttpPost]
        public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
        {
            var json = await new StreamReader(HttpContext.Request.Body).ReadToEndAsync();

            try
            {
                var stripeEvent = EventUtility.ConstructEvent(json,
                    Request.Headers["Stripe-Signature"], secret);

                // Handle the checkout.session.completed event
                if (stripeEvent.Type == Events.CheckoutSessionCompleted)
                {
                    var session = stripeEvent.Data.Object as Checkout.Session;

                    // Fulfill the purchase...
                    HandleCheckoutSession(session);
                }
                else
                {
                    return Ok()
                }
            }
            catch (StripeException e)
            {
                return BadRequest();
            }
        }
    }
}

You can use plugins like Zapier to automate updating your purchase fulfillment systems with information from Stripe payments.

Some examples of automation supported by plugins include:

  • Updating spreadsheets used for order tracking in response to successful payments
  • Updating inventory management systems in response to successful payments
  • Triggering notifications to internal customer service teams using email or chat applications

5 Test the integration

There are several test cards you can use to make sure your integration is ready for production. Use them with any CVC, postal code, and future expiration date.

Number Description
4242424242424242 Succeeds and immediately processes the payment.
4000000000003220 3D Secure 2 authentication must be completed for a successful payment.
4000000000009995 Always fails with a decline code of insufficient_funds.

For the full list of test cards see our guide on testing.

Apple Pay and Google Pay

No configuration or integration changes are required to enable Apple Pay or Google Pay in Stripe Checkout. These payments are handled the same way as other card payments.

The Apple Pay button is displayed in a given Checkout Session if all of the following apply:

  • Apple Pay is enabled for Checkout in your Stripe Dashboard.
  • The customer’s device is running macOS 10.14.1+ or iOS 12.1+.
  • The customer is using the Safari browser.
  • The customer has a valid card registered with Apple Pay.

This ensures that Checkout only displays the Apple Pay button to customers who are able to use it.

The Google Pay button is displayed in a given Checkout Session if all of the following apply:

  • Google Pay is enabled for Checkout in your Stripe Dashboard.
  • The customer is using Google Chrome or Safari.
  • The customer has a valid card registered with Google Pay.

This ensures that Checkout only displays the Google Pay button to customers who are able to use it.

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Enable Checkout
Create products and prices
Redirect to Checkout
Confirm the payment is successful
Test the integration
Collect a billing address
Collect a shipping address
Customize the Checkout button
Prefill customer email