Accept a payment using Kakao Pay in South Korea
Learn how to accept payments from Kakao Pay users.
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Stripe can automatically present the relevant payment methods to your customers by evaluating currency, payment method restrictions, and other parameters.
- Follow the Accept a payment guide to build a Checkout integration that uses dynamic payment methods.
- If you don’t want to use dynamic payment methods, follow the steps below to manually configure the payment methods in your Checkout integration.
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Kakao Pay isn’t available in Singapore.
Integrating with Kakao Pay enables South Korea-based customers to pay using this popular local payment method.
When a customer makes a payment, we redirect them to our local processor partner to authenticate and authorize the payment. After the customer authorizes the payment, Stripe redirects them back to your site.
Determine compatibility
A Checkout Session must satisfy all of the following conditions to support South Korean payment methods:
- Prices for all line items must be expressed in Korean won (currency code krw).
- The minimum amount accepted is 100 KRW, and the maximum amount accepted is 2,000,000 KRW.
Accept a Kakao Pay payment
Enable Kakao Pay by making the following updates to your integration.
When creating a Checkout Session, you must do the following:
- Add kakao_to the list ofpay payment_.method_ types 
- Make sure all line_use theitems krwcurrency.
- Provide the buyer’s email address.
Test your integration with Kakao Pay
While testing your Checkout integration, select Kakao Pay and click Pay. This redirects you to a Stripe-hosted page where you have the choice to authorize or fail the payment. If you authorize the payment, the PaymentIntent switches from requires_ to succeeded. Failing the test payment makes the PaymentIntent switch from requires_ to requires_. Learn more about how to test redirect-based payment methods.