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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)

Defining order management data structures


An order management system has, as a minimum, data structures representing products available for sale (inventory) and orders. To support the Apple Pay workflow, the system should also have a structure representing the supported shipping methods. The example project uses a MongoDB database to store this data, and the Mongoose data modeling module for Node.js. MongoDB is a document-based database system. Mongoose makes it easier to create documents from schemas and access the data in these documents.

The database for the example order management system has three collections: Product, ShippingMethod, and Order. A collection is similar to a table in a relational database system.

The Product collection stores information about each product offered for sale. The following table shows the fields available for product records within the collection:

Field name

Description

name

This is the name of the product

description

This is a phrase describing...