Payment Methodanchor

There are multiple types of payment methods. For the attributes of a specific type of payment method response, see one of the following response objects:

Payment method objects included in other responses (such as Customer) may be any of these types. For example:

  1. PHP
$customer = $gateway->customer()->find('a_customer_id');
$customer->paymentMethods // array of BraintreePaymentMethod instances
Returned directly or within a successful result object from the following requests:
Attributes
tokenstring

An alphanumeric value that references a specific payment method stored in your Vault.

Examplesanchor

Defaultanchor

To determine if a payment method is the default for its customer:

  1. PHP
$paymentMethod->isDefault();

Determine payment method typeanchor

To determine the type of payment method (e.g. credit card, PayPal), you need to inspect the class of the payment method object.

  1. PHP
$paymentMethod = $gateway->paymentMethod()->find('credit-card-token');
get_class($paymentMethod)
# BraintreeCreditCard

$paymentMethod = $gateway->paymentMethod()->find('paypal-account-token');
get_class($paymentMethod)
# BraintreePayPalAccount

$paymentMethod = $gateway->paymentMethod()->find('apple-pay-token');
get_class($paymentMethod)
# BraintreeApplePayCard

$paymentMethod = $gateway->paymentMethod()->find('google-pay-token');
get_class($paymentMethod)
# BraintreeGooglePayCard