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Accept an Alipay payment

Learn how to accept Alipay payments, a digital wallet popular with customers from China.

Alipay is a single-use payment method where customers are required to authenticate their payment. Customers pay by redirecting from your website or app, authorise the payment through Alipay, then return to your website or app where you get immediate notification on whether the payment succeeded or failed.

Set up Stripe
Client-side
Server-side

First, you need a Stripe account. Register now.

Server-side

This integration requires endpoints on your server that talk to the Stripe API. Use our official libraries for access to the Stripe API from your server:

Command Line
# Available as a gem
sudo gem install stripe
Gemfile
# If you use bundler, you can add this line to your Gemfile
gem 'stripe'

Client-side

The Stripe iOS SDK is open source, fully documented, and compatible with apps supporting iOS 13 or above.

To install the SDK, follow these steps:

  1. In Xcode, select File > Add Package Dependencies… and enter https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ios-spm as the repository URL.
  2. Select the latest version number from our releases page.
  3. Add the StripePaymentsUI product to the target of your app.

Note

For details on the latest SDK release and past versions, see the Releases page on GitHub. To receive notifications when a new release is published, watch releases for the repository.

Configure the SDK with your Stripe publishable key on app start. This enables your app to make requests to the Stripe API.

AppDelegate.swift
import UIKit
import StripePaymentsUI

@main
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        StripeAPI.defaultPublishableKey = 
"pk_test_TYooMQauvdEDq54NiTphI7jx"

        // do any other necessary launch configuration
        return true
    }
}

Note

Use your test keys while you test and develop, and your live mode keys when you publish your app.

Create a PaymentIntent
Server-side

A PaymentIntent is an object that represents your intent to collect payment from your customer and tracks the lifecycle of the payment process. Create a PaymentIntent on your server and specify the amount to collect and a supported currency. If you have an existing Payment Intents integration, add alipay to the list of payment method types.

Command Line
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/payment_intents \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -d "payment_method_types[]"=alipay \
  -d amount=1099 \
  -d currency=hkd

Redirect to the Alipay Wallet
Client-side

Register a custom URL scheme for your app by going to the Info tab of your app target settings.

Setting up a custom URL scheme in Xcode

The Alipay app opens this URL to return to your app after the customer completes the payment. Forward the URL to the Stripe SDK in your UISceneDelegate or UIApplicationDelegate:

SceneDelegate.swift
// This method handles opening custom URL schemes (for example, "your-app://stripe-redirect")
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, openURLContexts URLContexts: Set<UIOpenURLContext>) {
    guard let url = URLContexts.first?.url else {
        return
    }
    let stripeHandled = StripeAPI.handleURLCallback(with: url)
    if (!stripeHandled) {
        // This was not a Stripe url – handle the URL normally as you would
    }
}

When the customer taps to pay with Alipay, confirm the PaymentIntent using STPPaymentHandler confirmPayment. This launches the Alipay app or displays a webview if the Alipay app isn’t installed.

CheckoutViewController.swift
import UIKit
import StripePayments

class CheckoutViewController: UIViewController {
    // ...
    func pay() {
        let clientSecret = ... // The client secret of the PaymentIntent
        let paymentIntentParams = STPPaymentIntentParams(clientSecret: clientSecret)
        paymentIntentParams.paymentMethodParams = STPPaymentMethodParams(alipay: STPPaymentMethodAlipayParams(), billingDetails: nil, metadata: nil)
        paymentIntentParams.paymentMethodOptions = STPConfirmPaymentMethodOptions()
        paymentIntentParams.paymentMethodOptions?.alipayOptions = STPConfirmAlipayOptions()
        paymentIntentParams.returnURL = "{{URL SCHEME}}://safepay/" // Replace {{URL SCHEME}} with your own custom URL scheme.

        STPPaymentHandler.shared().confirmPayment(paymentIntentParams, with: self) { (status, intent, error) in
            switch status {
                case .canceled:
                    // Payment was canceled
                case .failed:
                    // Payment failed
                case .succeeded:
                    // Payment was successful
                @unknown default:
                    fatalError()
            }
        }
    }
}

extension CheckoutViewController: STPAuthenticationContext {
    func authenticationPresentingViewController() -> UIViewController {
        return self
    }
}

Alipay opens the return URL with safepay/ as the host. For example, if your custom URL scheme is myapp, your return URL must be myapp://safepay/.

Supported currencies

You can create Alipay payments in the currencies that map to your country. The default local currency for Alipay is cny and customers also see their purchase amount in cny.

CurrencyCountry
cnyAny country
audAustralia
cadCanada
eurAustria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
gbpUnited Kingdom
hkdHong Kong
jpyJapan
myrMalaysia
nzdNew Zealand
sgdSingapore
usdUnited States

If you have a bank account in another currency and would like to create an Alipay payment in that currency, you can contact support. Support for additional currencies is provided on a case-by-case basis.

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