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Alipay

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Alipay is a popular payment method for customers based in China to make payments online from their Alipay eWallet.

Note

Make yourself familiar with our API Principles to ensure a resilient integration.

Product Overview

Why use Alipay

With over one billion users, Alipay handles more than half of China's payments and transformed a cash market into a card-trusting market with their eWallet. Built by internet shopping giant Alibaba, to make it easier for their customers to buy and sell on their trading site. Alipay is now so popular that customers prefer to pay by mobile device in stores and online.

Feature summary

Payment type	Recurring	Reversals	Partial Reversals	Disputes	Auth and Settlement (Sale)
Digital wallet	❌	Refund - yes Cancel- No	Partial refund - yes Partial cancel- No	❌	✅

Acceptance currencies

Currency	Currency Codes
Australian Dollar	AUD
Canadian Dollar	CAD
Chinese Yuan	CYN
Euro	EUR
Hong Kong Dollar	HKD
Japanese Yen	JPY
Pound Sterling	GBP
US Dollar	USD
Singapore Dollar	SGD

Set your headers

Setting your headers is an important part of an API request. The headers represent the meta-data associated with your API request.

Authorization: {your_credentials}
Content-Type: application/json
WP-Api-Version: 2023-06-01

Header	Description
`Authorization`	We use the `Authorization` header to identify and authenticate you within Access Worldpay. You must use the `Authorization` header for any request you send to our APM API, unless you are using client certificate authentication over TLS. If you must use this, read our reference guide on Authenticating with SSL/TLS.
`Content-Type`	We require the `Content-Type` header if the request you're sending includes a request body, and if the HTTP method is a `POST` or a `PUT`.
`WP-Api-Version`	We use the `WP-Api-Version` header to identify which version of our APM API you are using. You must use the `WP-Api-Version` header for any request you send to our API.

If you're using both the Content-Type and WP-Api-Version headers, they must match.

Note

Replace {your_credentials} with your base64-encoded Basic Auth username and password. To get your Access Worldpay credentials contact your Implementation Manager.

Take a payment

POST https://try.access.worldpay.com/apmPayments

Example request

{
    "transactionReference": "Memory265-13/08/1876",
    "merchant":
    {
        "entity": "default"
    },
    "instruction":
    {
        "narrative":
        {
            "line1": "Mind Palace Ltd"
        },
        "value":
        {
            "amount": 500,
            "currency": "CNY"
        },
        "paymentInstrument":
        {
            "type": "alipay",
            "country": "CN",
            "shopperEmailAddress": "email@example.com",
            "successURL": "https://example.com/success",
            "pendingURL": "https://example.com/pending",
            "failureURL": "https://example.com/failure",
            "cancelURL": "https://example.com/cancel"
        }
    }
}

Parameters

Parameter	Required?	Description	Data type	Length
`merchant`	✅	An object that contains information about the merchant.	Object	N/A
`merchant.entity`	✅	Direct your payment to assist with billing, reporting and reconciliation. This is mandatory for Authentication and Queries. Contact your Implementation Manager for more details.	String	Must be between 1 and 32 characters.
`transactionReference`	✅	A unique reference generated by you that is used to identify a payment throughout its lifecycle. See transaction reference format.	String	Must be between 1 to 64 characters.
`instruction`	✅	An object that contains all the information related to the payment.	Object	N/A
`instruction.narrative`	✅	An object that helps your customers better identify you on their statement.	Object	See our formatting rules
`instruction.narrative.line1`	✅	The first line of the narrative which appears on your customer's statement (If a character is not supported it is replaced with a space.). See narrative `line1` format for more details.	Object	24
`instruction.paymentInstrument`	✅	An object that contains information about the payment method.	Object	N/A
`instruction.paymentInstrument.type`	✅	An object that contains the payment type and details. It defines which alternative payment method you wish to use. Value is `alipay` or `alipay_mobile` for a mobile optimized flow.	Object	N/A
`instruction.paymentInstrument.country`	❌	An object that contains the country of your customer. Follows alpha 2 ISO 3166-1 standard.	Object	2
`instruction.paymentInstrument.shopperEmailAddress`	✅	An object that contains your customer's email address.	String	N/A
`instruction.paymentInstrument.language`	❌	An object that contains the language of your customer. Follows ISO 639-1 standard.	String	2
`instruction.paymentInstrument.cancelURL`	✅	When your customer cancels a transaction, we redirect your customer to that cancel URL.	String	N/A
`instruction.paymentInstrument.pendingURL`	✅	When we receive the payment result for a pending payment transaction, we redirect your customer to that pending URL.	String	N/A
`instruction.paymentInstrument.successURL`	✅	When we receive the payment result for a successful payment, we redirect your customer to that success URL.	String	N/A
`instruction.value`	✅	An object that contains information about the payment transaction.	Object	N/A
`instruction.value.amount`	✅	The payment amount. This is a whole number with an exponent e.g. if exponent is two, 250 is 2,50. You can find the relevant exponent in our currency table.	Integer	N/A
`instruction.value.currency`	✅	The payment currency. Refer to the individual APM page for supported currencies.	Integer	3
`instruction.paymentInstrument.language`	❌	An object that contains the language of your customer. Follows ISO 639-1 standard.	String	2

Response

Successful request response

an HTTP code 201
an id which is unique to the payment - we recommend storing the "id" as this can be used to manage the payment later
a url to redirect your customer to the APM provider to complete the payment
a link to query the payment status

Example Response

{
    "paymentId": "nFxASqw-LV9HE_rr1mMONJmqBDeXmnv5dzt9IxAXgXbfpu0O_8mOnTpFSIM9gnTSygCKQgvlwQdUbu5rExIpJA_5Uq2LEGXXAanycRpxfDPNA-E70zIWdnaMb2gJhC8AIhbOkM6xDiVNu90YCXo2snTzi_k1sEOQnKIAJNTW3Qc",
    "lastEvent": "pending",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://access.worldpay.com/apmPayments/nFxASqw-LV9HE_rr1mMONJmqBDeXmnv5dzt9IxAXgXbfpu0O_8mOnTpFSIM9gnTSygCKQgvlwQdUbu5rExIpJA_5Uq2LEGXXAanycRpxfDPNA-E70zIWdnaMb2gJhC8AIhbOkM6xDiVNu90YCXo2snTzi_k1sEOQnKIAJNTW3Qc"
        }
    },
    "_actions": {},
    "url": "https://payments.worldpay.com/app/hpp/integration/wpg/corporate?OrderKey="
}

Note

In case of an error, you can get further information in our error reference.

Next Steps

Manage your Alipay payment

Alipay

Why use Alipay

Feature summary

Acceptance currencies

Set your headers

Take a payment

Example request

Parameters

Response

Successful request response

Example Response

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