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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)

The postprocess phase


In the Postprocess phase of the payment processing workflow, the app analyzes the response the order processing web app gave to the HTTP request that the app made in the Preprocess phase. In general terms, the response indicates whether the issuing bank approved or declined the payment. The response may also include an order number, order status, and other details that you deem useful for the user; the app may display a custom confirmation sheet containing this information. Finally, the app dismisses the payment sheet.

The following three sections describe the steps of the Postprocess phase.

The merchant app receives the transaction status from the order processing web app

The example user app receives the response from the order processing web app in a block in the backend_process_payment_info:gateway:charge_token:completion: method. The block's arguments are an NSURLResponse object and an NSData object. The code that processes the response and returned data is highlighted...