Pin Payments · Authentication Profile

Pin Payments Authentication

Authentication

Pin Payments secures its APIs with http across 1 declared security scheme, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

PaymentsCardsSubscriptionRefundsPayment GatewayRecurring PaymentsE-CommerceAustralia
Methods: http Schemes: 1 OAuth flows: API key in:

Security Schemes

basicAuth http
scheme: basic

Source

Authentication Profile

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generated: '2026-10-21'
method: searched
source: https://pinpayments.com/developers/api-reference
summary:
  types:
  - http
schemes:
- name: basicAuth
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: HTTP basic access authentication, with your API key as the username and an empty string as the password.
  sources:
  - openapi/pin-payments-openapi.yaml
  key_types:
    secret: Your secret keys have the ability to use all of the API. This means they can create charges, refunds,
      and bank transfers.
    publishable: Your publishable keys only have the ability to store payment card details (with the cards API )
      and bank account details (with the bank accounts API ).
  environments:
    live: api.pinpayments.com
    test: test-api.pinpayments.com
  failure:
    status: 401
    body:
      error: unauthenticated
      error_description: Not authorised. (Check API Key).
  transport: You must use HTTPS ... We recommend using TLS 1.2.
docs: https://pinpayments.com/developers/api-reference
webhook_signing:
  header: Pin-Signature
  algorithm: HMAC-SHA256 over "<t>.<body>" with the endpoint signing key
  format: t=1500452255,v1=f07f5d147c613d85b9607d1c6b8c15fc342eca4d2cfaaf546f8dded19a30c350
  docs: https://pinpayments.com/developers/integration-guides/webhooks

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