Initialize a Checkout Session
To initialize a Checkout session, a POST request to the checkout endpoint is performed. This will return a public token that is used to render the Checkout iframe and a private id that is used to retrieve information about the Checkout session at a later step.
- Example Request
- Example Response
- Example Faulty Response
/*POST /checkout HTTP/1.1Host: checkout-api-uat.collector.se (Please note! Different hostname in production)Content-Type: application/jsonAuthorization: SharedKey bXlVc2VybmFtZTpmN2E1ODA4MGQzZTk0M2VmNWYyMTZlMDE...*/{"storeId": 123,"countryCode": "SE","reference": "123456789","redirectPageUri": "https://example.com/purchase-completed-confirmation-page","merchantTermsUri": "https://example.com/merchant-purchase-terms","notificationUri": "https://example.com/my-notification-endpoint","validationUri": "https://example.com/my-validation-endpoint","profileName": "MyExampleProfile","settlementReference": "shop1","cart": {"items": [{"id": "10001","description": "A product description","unitPrice": 95.0,"quantity": 1,"vat": 25.0,"requiresElectronicId": true,"sku": "a unique alphanumeric code for article identification"}],"shippingProperties": {"height": 10,"width": 20,"isBulky": true}},"fees": {"shipping": {"id": "shipping001","description": "Shipping cost (incl. VAT)","unitPrice": 59.0,"vat": 25.0}},"customer": {"email": "test@collectorbank.se","mobilePhoneNumber": "+46701234567","nationalIdentificationNumber": "19520101-1234"},"metadata": {"administrator": "John Doe","someOtherData": [1, { "myObj": { "key": 1 } }]}}
{"id": "91714012-6ae9-4780-a927-fe459bc95bf6","data": {"privateId": "1eec44b5-66d3-4058-a31f-3444229fb727","publicToken": "public-SE-7f1b3d2a2a73d348dfbd17d3965ff1458c249f84c695eac1","expiresAt": "2017-12-07T07:16:49.8098107+00:00","paymentUri": "https://checkout-uat.collector.se/p/npBc87EFB"},"error": null}
// Example of Initialize Checkout response where an invalid StoreId was provided{"id": "1da39a61-d3e1-4da5-a1a0-7a315ea66d2f","data": null,"error": {"code": 400,"message": "Bad or faulty request. Please examine the errors property for details.","errors": [{"reason": "Store_Invalid","message": "Invalid store id or country code."}]}}
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RequestRequest headers
Header | Required | Explanation |
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Authorization | Yes | Instructions on how to generate the authorization header value can be found here. Note that the authorization header is generated with the access credentials (usename and shared access key) received from Collector Merchant Services. |
Request Body Properties
Property | Required | Explanation |
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storeId | No | Received from Collector Merchant Services. The store ID is only required in the request when integrating multiple stores with Collector Checkout. |
countryCode | Yes | The country code to use. SE , NO , FI , DK and DE is supported. |
reference | No | A reference to the order, i.e. order ID or similar. Note that the reference provided here will be shown to the customer on the invoice or receipt for the purchase. Max 50 chars. |
settlementReference | No * | Set this if you would like to group your settlement reports based on this value. Can for example be used when you have several shops connected to one storeId and want purchases to be grouped by individual shops. Max 50 chars. * To use this feature you must contact Merchant Services to setup Settlement Settings on this specific Store ID |
redirectPageUri | No * | If set, the browser will redirect to this page once the purchase has been completed. Used to display a thank-you-page for the end user. Hereafter referred to as the purchase confirmation page. * Required if the Store is an InStore type. |
merchantTermsUri | Yes | The page to which the Checkout will include a link for customers that wish to view the merchant terms for purchase. |
notificationUri | Yes | The endpoint to be called whenever an event has occurred in the Collector Checkout that might be of interest. For example, this callback is typically used to create an order in the merchant's system once a purchase has been completed. Use HTTPS here for security reasons. |
validationUri | No | Specify this uri when you want us to make an extra backend call to validate the articles during purchase. Use HTTPS here for security reasons. |
profileName | No | A name that referes to a specific settings profile. The profiles are setup by Merchant Services, please contact them for more information merchant@collectorbank.se |
cart | Yes | The initial Cart object with items to purchase (details below) |
fees | No | Shipping fee (details below) |
customer | No | Customer information for identification (details below) |
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Cart objectThe cart
object contains an array of items with the following properties. Please note that at least one article has to be included in order to initialize a checkout session.
Property | Required | Explanation |
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id | Yes | The article id or equivalent. Max 50 characters. Values are trimmed from leading and trailing white-spaces. Shown on the invoice or receipt. |
description | Yes | Descriptions longer than 50 characters will be truncated. Values are trimmed from leading and trailing white-spaces. Shown on the invoice or receipt. |
unitPrice | Yes | The unit price of the article including VAT. Positive and negative values allowed. Max 2 decimals, i.e. 100.00 |
quantity | Yes | Quantity of the article. Allowed values are 1 to 99999999 . |
vat | Yes | The VAT of the article in percent. Allowed values are 0 to 100 . Max 2 decimals, i.e. 25.00 |
requiresElectronicId | No | When set to true it indicates that a product needs strong identification and the customer will need to strongly identify themselves at the point of purchase using electronic id such as Mobilt BankID. An example would be selling tickets that are delivered electronically. This feature is supported for B2C and B2B on the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish markets. |
sku | No | A stock Keeping Unit is a unique alphanumeric code that is used to identify product types and variations. Maximum allowed characters are 1024. |
Please note
Each item in the cart is identified by a unique identifier. The identifier used depends on which PaymentService version is used to active the purchase.
For PaymentService v10 or later: All properties except quantity are used as the unique identifier. Multiple articles with the same unique combination of properties will be merged (quantities are summed). Uniqueness does not span to fees.
For PaymentService v9 or earlier: The combination of id and description is the unique identifier of an article. Multiple articles with the same unique combination will be merged (quantities are summed) as long as all other properties (except quantity) are equal. Uniqueness also spans to fees.
The shippingProperties
is optional and only relevant if a Delivery Module is used.
It gives flexibility to customize what delivery methods should be available based on the items in the cart.
Read more about how these properties are included when Fetching Delivery Methods.
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Fees object (optional)The Fees
object allows you to set a shipping fee.
The fee will be shown last on the receipt after all the cart items and also on the purchase confirmation page for a completed purchase.
This object is optional and can be set after initialization of the checkout through the Update fees endpoint.
Property | Required | Explanation |
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id | Yes | An id of the fee item. Max 50 characters. Values are trimmed from leading and trailing white-spaces. Shown on the invoice or receipt. |
description | Yes | Descriptions longer than 50 characters will be truncated. Values are trimmed from leading and trailing white-spaces. Shown on the invoice or receipt. |
unitPrice | Yes | The unit price of the fee including VAT. Allowed values are 0 to 999999.99 . Max 2 decimals, i.e. 25.00 |
vat | Yes | The VAT of the fee in percent. Allowed values are 0 to 100 . Max 2 decimals, i.e. 25.00 |
Please note if using PaymentService v9 or older
The combination of id and description of a fee must be unique within the cart and fees objects.
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Customer object (optional)The customer
object allows you to optionally provide customer information you might have if the customer is logged in into your site.
When we retrieve this information we try to identify the customer for a faster checkout experience.
If we cannot identify the customer we prompt the user for further identification details.
The response and status code of the Initialize Checkout Session call is not affected by success or failure to identify the customer.
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Examples- If
email
andmobilePhoneNumber
are provided and the combination is matched for a previously known customer, the user will be logged in and ready for purchase. - If
email
andmobilePhoneNumber
are provided but the combination does not match a previously known customer, we will prompt the user for further identification details. - If
email
andmobilePhoneNumber
are provided together withnationalIdentificationNumber
we will try to identify the customer using these values by doing a lookup in an address registry.
Property | Required | Explanation |
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Yes | The customer's email address. | |
mobilePhoneNumber | Yes | The customer's mobile phone. |
nationalIdentificationNumber | No | The customer's national identification number |
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Metadata objectThe metadata
object allows you to optionally provide custom metadata information in a key/value format. Metadata is not processed by Collector but will be returned when retrieving information about the checkout. This means that the metadata
object can be used as an opaque reference for things that needs to be remembered without saving state locally.
Each metadata key must be a string but the value can be any valid JSON type.
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ResponseProperty | Explanation |
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publicToken | The publicToken is used to render the Checkout iframe. The public token has a limited lifetime of 168 hours (7 days). |
privateId | A reference that can be used by you to acquire information about a Checkout session at any given time no matter if the purchase has been completed or not. The privateId property value cannot be used to render the Checkout iframe, but is instead used to acquire information such as delivery address, total amount for the purchase etc. from the Checkout API. For more details about how the value from the privateId property is used, refer to the section how to acquire information about an ongoing or completed Checkout. Note that the private ID never expires but some operations are no longer permitted after expiresAt . |
expiresAt | The timestamp when this Checkout session will expire. After this timestamp the purchase cannot be completed, no updates to the cart can be performed and a new Checkout session must be initialized. |
paymentUri | A shortcut link to this Checkout session. Used when distributing a Pay Link to a customer. |
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Templating the uri valuesThe notificationUri
and the validationUri
properties can optionally be templated to contain the privateId
and the public token
anywhere in the URI
using {checkout.id}
and {checkout.publictoken}
. Note that the variable names checkout.id and checkout.publictoken are case-sensitive.
For redirectPageUri
, only the {checkout.publictoken}
is valid for templating the uri.