Payment Methods

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A payment method represents transactable payment information such as credit card details or a customer's authorization to charge a PayPal or Venmo account. Payment methods belong to a customer, are securely stored in the Braintree Vault, and have a paymentMethodToken attribute that you can store on your servers (with reduced PCI compliance burden) and later use to create transactions.

Create

Use Payment Method: Create to create a payment method for an existing customer using a payment method nonce received from the client :

gateway.paymentMethod.create({
  customerId: "12345",
  paymentMethodNonce: nonceFromTheClient
}, (err, result) => { });

Alternatively, you can create a new customer with a payment method using Customer: Create with the paymentMethodNonce parameter.

Once successfully created, you can use Transaction: Sale with the paymentMethodToken parameter to create a transaction.

note

Braintree strongly recommends verifying all cards before they are stored in your Vault by enabling card verification for your entire account in the Control Panel.

Update

Use Payment Method: Update to update an existing payment method.

Make default

Use the makeDefault option to set a payment method as the default for its customer:

gateway.paymentMethod.update("theToken", {
  options: {
    makeDefault: true
  }
}, (err, result) => {
});

Billing address

Update the billing address:

gateway.paymentMethod.update("theToken", {
  billingAddress: {
    streetAddress: "100 Maple Lane",
    options: {
      updateExisting: true
    }
  }
}, (err, result) => {
});

You can also omit the updateExisting option to create a new billing address for just this payment method.

See the reference and more examples of updating a payment method . If you want to update both payment method and customer information together, use Customer: Update.

Find

Use Payment Method: Find to find a payment method:

gateway.paymentMethod.find("token", (err, paymentMethod) => { });

The return value of the Payment Method: Find call will be a paymentMethod response object.

Delete

Use Payment Method: Delete to delete a payment method:

gateway.paymentMethod.delete("theToken", (err) => { });

See also

• Card verification