Client-Side Implementation
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Collecting device data
PayPalDataCollector enables you to collect data about a customer's device and correlate it with a session identifier on your server.
Get the SDK
CocoaPods
Include Braintree/PayPalDataCollector in your Podfile:
- Ruby
# Podfile
pod 'Braintree/PayPalDataCollector'Swift Package Manager
Include the PayPalDataCollector framework.
Carthage
Include the PayPalDataCollector and PPRiskMagnes frameworks.
Implementation
PayPalDataCollector collects data about a customer's device and returns a device_data string that contains one or more identifiers that correlate with the collected data. Collecting and passing this data with transactions helps reduce decline rates.
- Before making a request to your server, get the device data string by calling
collectPayPalDeviceData.
- Swift
let deviceData = PPDataCollector.collectPayPalDeviceData()
print("Send this device data to your server: (deviceData)")To collect device data as expected in sandbox you must use iOS v5.9.0+. Call collectDeviceData(isSandbox: Bool) to collect the appropriate device data.
- Swift
// for production pass 'isSandbox' as 'false'
self.dataCollector.collectDeviceData(isSandbox: true) { deviceData in
// Send deviceData to your server
}- Send the device data string to your server along with transaction or verification data (e.g.
Transaction.salecalls). Your server will include thisdevice_dataparameter when submitting the request to the Braintree gateway.
If you choose to automatically vault a customer's new payment method, verifications for those payment methods will not include device data when they are evaluated by our Premium Fraud Management Tools. Subsequent transactions can still pass device data.
PayPal
If you're accepting PayPal using the Vault flow, collecting device data via PayPalDataCollector is required.