availability

Braintree Auth is in closed beta. Contact us to express interest.

Once you have an accessToken, you are ready to perform actions on behalf of that merchant.

The only difference between the API to perform actions on behalf of a merchant and for a merchant performing their own actions is that the gateway object used to make API calls must be instantiated with an access token instead of a client ID and secret.

Creating a transaction

This is how to create a transaction using an access token:

Node.js 
var gateway = braintree.connect({
  accessToken: useAccessTokenForMerchant
});

gateway.transaction.sale({
  amount: "10.00",
  paymentMethodNonce: nonceFromTheClient,
}, function (err, result) {
  var transactionId = result.transaction.id
});

Creating a customer

Here's how you would create a customer for a merchant:

Node.js 
var gateway = braintree.connect({
  accessToken: useAccessTokenForMerchant
});

gateway.customer.create({
  firstName: "Joe",
  lastName: "Brown",
  email: "joe@example.com",
  phone: "312-555-1234"
}, function (err, response) {
  var customerId = response.customer.id;
});

Authentication errors

The merchant has the right to revoke an authorization grant at any time. If this occurs, you will receive a exceptions.AuthenticationError when attempting to take any action on the merchant’s behalf.

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