Payment Methods

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A payment method represents transactable payment information such as credit card details or a customer's authorization to charge a PayPal or Venmo account. Payment methods belong to a customer, are securely stored in the Braintree Vault, and have a payment_method_token attribute that you can store on your servers with reduced PCI compliance burden and later use to create transactions.

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Use Payment Method: Create to create a payment method for an existing customer using a payment method single-object token received from the client :

  1. Python
result = gateway.payment_method.create({
    "customer_id": "12345",
    "payment_method_nonce": nonce_from_the_client
});

Alternatively, you can create a new customer with a payment method using Customer: Create with the payment_method_nonce parameter.

After the payment method is successfully created, you can use Transaction: Sale with the payment_method_token parameter to create a transaction.

Note
Braintree strongly recommends verifying all cards before they are stored in your Vault by enabling card verification for your entire account in the Control Panel.

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Use Payment Method: Update to update an existing payment method.

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Use the make_default option to set a payment method as the default for its customer:

  1. Python
result = gateway.payment_method.update(
    "the_token",
    {
        "options": {
            "make_default": True
        }
    }
);

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Update the billing address:

  1. Python
result = gateway.payment_method.update(
    "the_token",
    {
        "billing_address": {
            "street_address": "100 Maple Lane",
            "options": {
                "update_existing": True
            }
        }
    }
);

You can also omit the update_existing option to create a new billing address for the payment method.

See the reference and more examples of updating a payment method . If you want to update both payment method and customer information together, use Customer: Update.

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Use Payment Method: Find to find a payment method:

  1. Python
payment_method = gateway.payment_method.find("token");

The return value of the Payment Method: Find call will be a payment_method response object.

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Use Payment Method: Delete to delete a payment method:

  1. Python
result = gateway.payment_method.delete("the_token")
result.is_success # True

See also