Accept a payment

Build a payment form or use a prebuilt checkout page to start accepting online payments.

• Hosted page
• Embedded form
• Mobile

Redirect to a Ledgerline-hosted payment page. See how this compares to the embedded form.

Integration effort — Low code

Integration type — Redirect to a hosted payment page

UI customization — Limited: fonts, colours and your logo

First, create a Ledgerline account. Then install an official library to access the Ledgerline API from your application:

# Available as a gem
sudo gem install ledgerline

npm install ledgerline --save

pip3 install --upgrade ledgerline

1. Redirect your customer to hosted checkout

   Add an endpoint on your server that creates a Checkout Session. A Checkout Session is the programmatic representation of what your customer sees when they're redirected to the payment form. Configure it with parameters such as:

   • line_items to set the price and currency of what you're charging

   • success_url to redirect your customer after they complete the payment

   • metadata to attach your own order ID

   Checkout Sessions expire 24 hours after creation by default.

   • Ruby
   • Node.js
   • Python

   # This example sets up an endpoint using the Sinatra framework.require 'json'require 'sinatra'require 'ledgerline'​client = Ledgerline::Client.new(ENV['LEDGERLINE_SECRET_KEY'])​post '/create-checkout-session' do  session = client.checkout.sessions.create({    line_items: [{      price_data: {        currency: 'usd',        product_data: { name: 'Canvas tote' },        unit_amount: 4800,      },      quantity: 1,    }],    mode: 'payment',    success_url: 'https://example.com/success',    metadata: { order_id: '6735' },  })​  redirect session.url, 303end

   Add a checkout button to your website

   Create an HTML page with a checkout button that sends your customer to the server-side endpoint you just wrote.

   <html>  <head>    <title>Buy a canvas tote</title>  </head>  <body>    <form action="/create-checkout-session" method="POST">      <button type="submit">Checkout</button>    </form>  </body></html>

   Verify your integration

   1. Click the checkout button.

   2. You're redirected to the hosted payment form.

   3. Pay with the test card 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future date and any CVC.

2. Show a success page

   It's important for your customer to see a success page after they submit the payment form. Host this page on your site.

   <html>  <head><title>Thanks for your order!</title></head>  <body>    <h1>Thanks for your order!</h1>    <p>      We appreciate your business. If you have any questions, email      <a href="mailto:orders@example.com">orders@example.com</a>.    </p>  </body></html>

   Next, update the success_url parameter in your Checkout Session endpoint to point to this new page.

3. Handle post-payment events

   Ledgerline sends a checkout.session.completed event when a customer completes a Checkout Session. Use a webhook endpoint to receive these events, which might trigger you to:

   • Send an order confirmation email to your customer.

   • Log the sale in a database.

   • Start a shipping workflow.

   Listen for events rather than waiting for your customer to be redirected back. Triggering fulfilment only from your success page is unreliable: the customer can close the tab before it loads.

4. Test your integration

   Card number	Scenario
   4242 4242 4242 4242	The payment succeeds.
   4000 0025 0000 3155	The payment requires authentication.
   4000 0000 0000 9995	The payment is declined with insufficient_funds.

   See Testing for the full list.

See also

• Embedded payment form

• Payment methods

• Webhooks