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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)

Configuring an order management server web app


A web server is a computer that stores information, modifies it, and provides clients with access to it. These clients can request information or ask the server to process data in a specific way, which can result in a change to the data stored on the server and the client receiving a representation of this data. Practically, any computer can be a web server. A web app is a process that runs on a web server and serves content to clients through HTTP requests. In production environments, web apps run on specially configured web servers, which provide redundancy, replication, and other features to ensure robustness, high performance, and safety, among other characteristics. However, you do not need a fully fledged web server to run a web app. You can run a web app on your development computer.

An order management server is a web app that runs on a computer that is accessible to clients. In your development environment (which is comprised of your...