Shift4 Payments

Shift4 Payments Payment Links API

Create and retrieve hosted payment links.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Shift4 Payments Blacklist Payment Links API
  description: The Shift4 Payments API enables merchants and platforms to accept and manage payments, including one-time charges, refunds, customers, cards, tokenization, subscriptions, plans, payment methods, payment links, checkout sessions, fraud warnings, blacklist rules, disputes, file uploads, payouts, webhook endpoints, and events. Endpoints, parameters, and resource shapes are extracted from the public Shift4 documentation at https://dev.shift4.com/docs/api and the official open-source Shift4 SDKs (Java, Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, .NET, iOS, Android, WooCommerce, Salesforce B2C) maintained at https://github.com/shift4developer.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Shift4 Developer Support
    email: devsupport@shift4.com
    url: https://dev.shift4.com
  license:
    name: Documentation
    url: https://dev.shift4.com/docs
servers:
- url: https://api.shift4.com
  description: Production
security:
- BasicAuth: []
tags:
- name: Payment Links
  description: Create and retrieve hosted payment links.
paths:
  /payment-links:
    post:
      tags:
      - Payment Links
      summary: Create a Payment Link
      operationId: createPaymentLink
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                amount:
                  type: integer
                  minimum: 1
                currency:
                  type: string
                description:
                  type: string
                metadata:
                  type: object
                  additionalProperties:
                    type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Payment link created.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
                  url:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
                  amount:
                    type: integer
                  currency:
                    type: string
                  created:
                    type: integer
                    format: int64
  /payment-links/{linkId}:
    parameters:
    - name: linkId
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      tags:
      - Payment Links
      summary: Retrieve a Payment Link
      operationId: getPaymentLink
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A payment link object.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
                  url:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
                  amount:
                    type: integer
                  currency:
                    type: string
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BasicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Use your secret API key as the username with an empty password.

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