A payment method token is a string representing sensitive payment method credentials and customer data. Primer provides Universal Checkout, our all-in-one Checkout SDK, to securely capture payment method data while fully embedded on your site or in your app. By communicating directly with Primer’s PCI-L1 tokenization service, Universal Checkout transforms sensitive customer data into a secure uniform string called a payment method token. Universal Checkout generates a payment method token regardless of the customer’s chosen payment method. This enables you to reason about your checkout flow in a unified way.

Payment creation

Our agnostic tokenization service and centralized vault enable you to handle recurring payments, fallbacks, and retries across processors without compromising UX.No more PSP-specific tokens — now you own your payment data.

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Get a payment method token

The Payments API requires a payment method token to create a payment. You can get a payment method token from: