Payment Methodanchor

There are multiple types of payment methods. For the attributes of a specific type of payment method response, see one of the following response objects:

Payment method objects included in other responses (such as Customer) may be any of these types. For example:

  1. Python
customer = gateway.customer.find("the_customer_id")
customer.payment_methods # array of braintree.PaymentMethod instances
Server-side response object returned directly or within a successful result object from the following requests:
Attributes
tokenstr

An alphanumeric value that references a specific payment method stored in your Vault.

Examplesanchor

Defaultanchor

To determine if a payment method is the default for its customer:

  1. Python
payment_method.default

Determine payment method typeanchor

To determine the type of payment method (e.g. credit card, PayPal), you need to inspect the class of the payment method object.

  1. Python
payment_method = gateway.payment_method.find("credit-card-token")
payment_method.__class__
# <class 'braintree.credit_card.CreditCard'>

payment_method = gateway.payment_method.find("paypal-account-token")
payment_method.__class__
# <class 'braintree.paypal_account.PayPalAccount'>

payment_method = gateway.payment_method.find("apple-pay-token")
payment_method.__class__
# <class 'braintree.apple_pay_card.ApplePayCard'>

payment_method = gateway.payment_method.find("android-pay-token")
payment_method.__class__
# <class 'braintree.android_pay_card.AndroidPayCard'>