Postfinance Checkout

Rails integration for Postfinance Checkout. Postfinance Checkout is an all-in-one solution for integrating payment methods into a webshop and for accepting in-person-payments using a banking terminal.

More information on Postfinance Checkout is available from the website.

You need to have a Postfinance Checkout account. It is okay to leave it in test mode in the beginning.

If you have no account yet, create one at checkout.postfinance.ch.

To get the necessary credentials for communicating with the API, you need to create an Application User.

Open your account on checkout.postfinance.ch to get the following credentials:

• Space ID: open your space and note the ID in the URL. An URL of https://checkout.postfinance.ch/s/40949/space/dashboard means your space ID is 40949. Write it down for later.

Create a new "Application User", enter an arbitrary name and copy the following credentials:

• App User ID: the user ID. Write it down for later.
• App User Key: the user key. Write it down for later.

Then, create a new "Role" with any name where you add at the following permissions:

• Payment Processing

Assign the new role to the applicatin user, as a "Space Role".

Add the following webhook on the Postfinance Checkout website (Space > Settings > General):

• Webhook URL: https://example.com/postfinancecheckout/webhook
• Webhook listeners
  • Name: anything
  • Entity: Transaction
  • Entity States: Fulfill, Failed, Decline, Voided

To initiate a payment, create a Postfinancecheckout::Transaction where you state the name and address of the customer and the line items of the order. This will provide you with a payment URL, where you can redirect the user to select their payment method. After the payment, they are redirected to your application.

Since many of the payment methods only confirm or deny a transaction after a certain amount of time, it is necessary to listen to any changes in the transaction status. This is done using webhooks that are automatically analyzed by the gem. You only need to provide two callbacks that define the action to take on a successful and on an unsuccessful payment.

In order to match transactions at their creation and in the callbacks later on, it is necessary for your payment model to include a unique identification. Usually, this is done by adding an attribute named transaction_id or similar to the model:

rails generate migration AddTransactionIdToOrders transaction_id:string

In your application, you can create a transaction the following way. Make sure you store the generated transaction ID in the newly created attribute. The order number is purely for your own reference and must be unique:

transaction = Postfinancecheckout::Transaction.new(
  amount: 34.5,
  order_number: '1234',
  email: 'test@example.com',
  address: {
    first_name: 'Testbenutzer',
    last_name: 'Muster',
    street: 'Hauptstrasse 123',
    post_code: 3019,
    city: 'Chäs und Brot',
    state: 'BE',
    country_code: 'CH'
  }
)
transaction.save

@order.update(transaction_id: transaction.id)

Once you have saved the transaction, generate the payment URL and redirect the user:

redirect_to transaction.payment_url

To handle the callbacks when a transaction is successful or failed, create the file config/initializers/postfinancecheckout.rb and add the following content. Substitute the three variables at the top with your own values.

The callbacks will provide the id of the transaction you created and can be used to find the original order record. You can also send any necessary emails.

Postfinancecheckout.configure do |config|
  config.space_id = 12345
  config.app_user_id = 56789
  config.app_user_key = "my_secret_key"

  config.on_success = -> (transaction_id) do
    order = Order.find_by(transaction_id: transaction_id)
    order.update(status: :paid)

    PaymentSuccessMailer.deliver_later(order)
  end

  config.on_failure = -> (transaction_id) do
    order = Order.find_by(transaction_id: transaction_id)
    order.update(status: :failed)

    PaymentFailedMailer.deliver_later(order)
  end
end

Finally, to receive the webhooks, add the following line to config/routes.rb:

mount Postfinancecheckout::Engine, at: "/postfinancecheckout"

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "postfinancecheckout-rails", require: 'postfinancecheckout'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install postfinancecheckout-rails

Build the gem:

rake build

Push it to rubygems.org:

rake release

Contribution directions go here.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.