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Apple Pay Essentials

By : Ernest Bruce
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Apple Pay Essentials

By: Ernest Bruce

Overview of this book

Apple Pay, one of the most talked about offerings of the latest iOS 9 release, is a digital wallet and electronic payment system developed by Apple Inc. Paying in stores or within apps has never been easier or safer. Gone are the days of searching for your wallet, and the wasted moments finding the right card! Now you can use your credit cards and rewards cards with just a touch. It allows payment to merchants, using Near field Communication (NFC), and within iOS apps. Implementing Apple Pay within apps for payment is a bit tricky, but our book solves this problem for you. Whether you are a brand new iOS app developer or a seasoned expert, this book arms you with necessary skills to successfully implement Apple Pay in your online-payment workflow. Whether you are a brand new iOS app developer or a seasoned expert, this book arms you with the necessary skills to successfully implement Apple Pay. We start off by teaching you how to obtain the certificates necessary to encrypt customers’ payment information. We will use Xcode and Objective C for the interface and Node.js for server side code. You will then learn how to determine whether the customer can use Apple Pay, and how to create payment requests. You will come to grips with designing a payment-processor program to interact with the payment gateway. Finally, we take a look at a business-focused view of Apple Pay protocols and classes. By the end of this book, you will be able to build a fully functional Apple Pay-integrated iOS app
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Specifying summary items


The summary items are the elements of the payment sheet that specify the price of the item the user is purchasing, the shipping cost, taxes, discounts, and the total price. Each summary item has a label, such as SHIPPING or TAX. The last item represents the total price with a label, such as PAY ACME. The label of this item must identify your company so that the customer can match the purchase to their payment-card statement. You specify the summary items of a payment request by assigning an array of PKPaymentSummaryItem instances to the paymentSummaryItems property of the payment request. Each summary item has an amount property that represents the cost of the item.

This listing shows how to define the summary items of a payment request:

// client_app/merchantapp/ProductCard.m
@property Product*           product;
@property PKPaymentRequest*  payment_request;
@property PKShippingMethod*  selected_shipping_method;
...
// tally the summary items' cost and the grand total...