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Create a CVC only session

Last Updated: 15 May 2024 | Change Log

Create a session for CVC only

Use our React Native SDK to secure your customer's payment details by creating a separate session for CVC.

Full Sample Integration

You can see an example of the session generation here.

Set your views

When you create your checkout form, you must set the views, that your customers use, to enter and submit their CVC details.

Here's an example of how you would set your view configurations.

import React, {useState} from 'react';
import {Button, TextInput, View} from 'react-native';

export default function CvcFlow() {
  const [cvc, setCvc] = useState ('');

  function createSession() {
  ...
  }

  return (
    <View>
      <TextInput
        keyboardType="numeric"
        placeholder="CVC"
        onChangeText={setCvc}
      />
      <Button
        onPress={createSession}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Validate card details

You can optionally validate your customer's card details. You can find instructions here.

Create a CVC session

Initialize the AccessCheckout client

You must now initialize the AccessCheckout.

To do this, you must provide your baseUrl and merchantId (checkout ID).

Here's an example of how to initialize it.

import {
  AccessCheckout,
} from '@worldpay/access-worldpay-checkout-react-native-sdk';

const accessCheckout = new AccessCheckout({
  baseUrl: 'https://try.access.worldpay.com/',
  merchantId: 'YOUR_CHECKOUT_ID',
});

Parameters

ParameterDescription
baseUrl
  • For testing use: https://try.access.worldpay.com/
  • For live use: https://access.worldpay.com/
merchantIdYour unique checkout ID.

Generate CVC session

You must pass the customer's card details and the CVC session types to the generateSessions method of the AccessCheckout instance.

Here's an example of what you should do when your customer submits their card details.

import {
  ...
  CVC,
} from '@worldpay/access-worldpay-checkout-react-native-sdk';

...

function createSession() {
  const sessionTypes = [CVC];
  const cardDetails = {
    cvc,
  };

  accessCheckout.generateSessions(cardDetails, sessionTypes)
    .then((sessions) => {
      const cvcSession = sessions.cvc;
      // do something with the cvc only sessions ...
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      // do something in case of error
    });
}

Full code sample

Here's the full code sample of the steps above.

import {
  AccessCheckout,
  CVC,
} from '@worldpay/access-worldpay-checkout-react-native-sdk';
import React, {useState} from 'react';
import {Button, TextInput, View} from 'react-native';

export default function CvcFlow() {
  const [cvc, setCvc] = useState ('');

  const accessCheckout = new AccessCheckout({
    baseUrl: 'https://try.access.worldpay.com/',
    merchantId: 'YOUR_CHECKOUT_ID',
  });

  function createSession() {
    const sessionTypes = [CVC];
    const cardDetails = {
      cvc,
    };

    accessCheckout.generateSessions(cardDetails, sessionTypes)
      .then((sessions) => {
        const cvcSession = sessions.cvc;
        // do something with the cvc only sessions ...
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        // do something in case of error
      });
  }

  return (
    <View>
      <TextInput
        keyboardType="numeric"
        placeholder="CVC"
        onChangeText={setCvc}
      />
      <Button
        title="submit"
        onPress={createSession}
      />
    </View>
  );
}
Caution

Do not validate the structure or length of the session resources. We follow HATEOS standard to allow us the flexibility to extend our APIs with non-breaking changes.

Important

The CVC session has a lifespan of 15 minutes and you can use it only once. If you do not take a payment within that time, you must create a new CVC session value.

Next steps

Using the Payments API

Using the Card Payments API