Accept a GrabPay payment

Learn how to accept GrabPay, a common payment method in Southeast Asia.

Note

Subscriptions and using GrabPay for future payments aren’t currently supported. Reach out to Stripe support for any support queries on these features.

Web

Mobile

GrabPay is a single-use payment method. Customers pay with GrabPay by redirecting from your app to GrabPay, authorizing the payment, then returning to your app where you get immediate notification on whether the payment succeeded or failed.

Note

Learn more about activating GrabPay in the Dashboard.

Set up Stripe
Server-side

First, you need a Stripe account. Register now.

Use our official libraries for access to the Stripe API from your application:

Create a PaymentIntent
Server-side

A PaymentIntent represents your intent to collect payment from a customer and tracks the lifecycle of the payment process.

Create a PaymentIntent on your server and specify the amount to collect and sgd or myr as the currency. There is no minimum charge amount for GrabPay so the payment amount can be as low as 1. If you have an existing Payment Intents integration, add grabpay to the list of payment method types.

Retrieve the client secret

The PaymentIntent includes a client secret that the client side uses to securely complete the payment process. You can use different approaches to pass the client secret to the client side.

Retrieve the client secret from an endpoint on your server, using the browser’s fetch function. This approach is best if your client side is a single-page application, particularly one built with a modern frontend framework like React. Create the server endpoint that serves the client secret:

And then fetch the client secret with JavaScript on the client side:

(async () => {
  const response = await fetch('/secret');
  const {client_secret: clientSecret} = await response.json();
  // Render the form using the clientSecret
})();

Submit the payment to Stripe
Client-side

When a customer clicks to pay with GrabPay, use Stripe.js to submit the payment to Stripe. Stripe.js is the foundational JavaScript library for building payment flows. It automatically handles complexities like the redirect described below, and enables you to extend your integration to other payment methods. Include the Stripe.js script on your checkout page by adding it to the head of your HTML file.

checkout.html
<head>
  <title>Checkout</title>
  <script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"></script>
</head>

Create an instance of Stripe.js with the following JavaScript on your checkout page.

client.js
// Set your publishable key. Remember to change this to your live publishable key in production!
// See your keys here: https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys
const stripe = Stripe('pk_test_TYooMQauvdEDq54NiTphI7jx'
);

To create a payment on the client side, add a Pay with GrabPay button and use stripe.confirmGrabPayPayment to handle the redirect away from your page and to complete the payment.

checkout.html
<button type="button" id="grabpay-button">Pay with GrabPay</button>
<div id="error-message"></div>

client.js
const button = document.getElementById('grabpay-button');

button.addEventListener('click', async function() {
  // By this point, the PaymentIntent should have already been created
  // Pass the clientSecret of the PaymentIntent to confirmGrabPayPayment

  stripe.confirmGrabPayPayment(clientSecret, {
    // Return URL where the customer should be redirected after the authorization
    return_url: 'https://example.com/checkout/complete',
  });
});

Pass the client secret of the PaymentIntent object that you created in Step 2 to stripe.confirmGrabPayPayment.

Additionally, add a return_url to this function to indicate where Stripe should redirect the user after they complete the payment on Grab’s website.

When your customer submits a payment, Stripe redirects them to the return_url and includes the following URL query parameters. The return page can use them to get the status of the PaymentIntent so it can display the payment status to the customer.

When you specify the return_url, you can also append your own query parameters for use on the return page.

Parameter	Description
`payment_intent`	The unique identifier for the `PaymentIntent`.
`payment_intent_client_secret`	The client secret of the `PaymentIntent` object. For subscription integrations, this client_secret is also exposed on the `Invoice` object through `confirmation_secret`

When the customer is redirected back to your site, you can use the payment_intent_client_secret to query for the PaymentIntent and display the transaction status to your customer.

order_confirmation.html
<h2>Payment result</h2>
<div class="payment-result">
</div>

<script>
  // Check if we're returning from a redirect.
  const url = new URL(window.location.href);
  const paymentIntentClientSecret = url.searchParams.get(
    "paymentIntentClientSecret"
  );
  if (paymentIntentClientSecret) {
    stripe.retrievePaymentIntent(paymentIntentClientSecret).then(function(result) {
      const paymentIntent = result.paymentIntent;
      document.querySelector(".payment-result").textContent = paymentIntent.status;
    });
  }
</script>

Test your integration

When testing, the client side redirect brings you to a Stripe-hosted GrabPay test payment page where you can either authorize or fail the test payment.

OptionalHandle post-payment events

OptionalHandle the GrabPay redirect manually

Supported currencies

Stripe users in Malaysia and Singapore can accept GrabPay payments from customers in Malaysia and Singapore respectively. Review the supported currencies and GrabPay transaction limits below:

Country	Customer country	Supported currency	Transaction limits
Singapore (SG)	Singapore (SG)	SGD	GrabPay SG
Malaysia (MY)	Malaysia (MY)	MYR	GrabPay MY

Accept a GrabPay payment

Learn how to accept GrabPay, a common payment method in Southeast Asia.

Note

Note

Set up StripeServer-side

Create a PaymentIntentServer-side

Retrieve the client secret

Submit the payment to StripeClient-side

Test your integration

OptionalHandle post-payment events

OptionalHandle the GrabPay redirect manually

Supported currencies

Set up Stripe
Server-side

Create a PaymentIntent
Server-side

Submit the payment to Stripe
Client-side