Adding a wire transfer payment source

How to add an wire transfer payment source to an order

Problem

You have a pending order with a selected payment method that is associated with a manual payment gateway. You want to give your customer the possibility to pay with a wire transfer.

Solution

To add a wire transfer payment source to an order, you have to create a wire transfer payment source object and associate it with the order, as described in the Checkout guide.

Adding a payment source

Example

1. Get the payment source type

Request

The following request retrieves the attributes of the payment method associated with the order identified by the "yPMWYhmzON" ID:

curl -g -X GET \
  'http://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/orders/yPMWYhmzON?include=payment_method' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer your-access-token' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json'

Response

2. Create the payment source and associate it with the order

Request

The following request creates a wire transfer object and associates it with the order identified by the "yPMWYhmzON" ID:

curl -g -X POST \
  'http://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/wire_transfers' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer your-access-token' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -d '{
  "data": {
    "type": "wire_transfers",
    "attributes": {},
    "relationships": {
      "order": {
        "data": {
          "type": "orders",
          "id": "yPMWYhmzON"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}'

Response

More to read

See our documentation if you need more information on how to retrieve an order, include associations, or create a wire transfer. See our Checkout guide for more details on how to place an order.

Placing the order