You can accept

payments

from your customers by integrating your website or app with

Razorpay Payment Gateway

. You can also use Razorpay products such as

Payment Links

Payment Pages

Subscription Links

Invoices

and

Smart Collect

to accept Payments.

Handy Tips

If you want to integrate with our APIs directly, reach out to our

Support team

with your requirements.

Payments API

Payments APIs are used to capture and fetch payments. You can also fetch payments based on orders and card details of payment.

You can try out our APIs on the Razorpay Postman Public Workspace.

Watch Out!

You can use Payments API only to retrieve payment details or change the status from authorized to capture and not to collect payments. You can use one of the

Razorpay products

to accept payments.

Use Cases

Capture a payment
using the unique identifier.
Retrieve details of a specific payment
.
Retrieve details of multiple payments
.
Retrieve expanded card or EMI details
of a payment.
Retrieve payments linked to an Order
.
Retrieve card details
of a payment.
Edit an existing payment
.

Payments Entity

The Payments entity has the following fields:

string Unique identifier of the payment.

entity

string Indicates the type of entity.

amount

integer The payment amount represented in smallest unit of the currency passed. For example, amount = 100 translates to 100 paise, that is ₹1 (default currency is INR).

currency

string The currency in which the payment is made. Refer to the list of

international currencies

that we support.

status

string The status of the payment. Possible values:

created
authorized
captured
refunded
failed

base_amount

integer The converted payment amount used to calculate fees and settlements. Represented in smallest unit of the base_currency. This attribute is currently only present if the currency is non-INR.

base_currency

string The conversion currency used to calculate fees and settlements. This currently defaults to INR, and is present only if the currency is non-INR.

method

string The payment method used for making the payment. Possible values:

card
netbanking
wallet
emi
upi

order_id

string Order ID, if provided. Know more about

Orders

description

string Description of the payment, if any.

international

boolean Indicates whether the payment is done via an international card or a domestic one.

refund_status

string The refund status of the payment. Possible values:

null
partial
full

amount_refunded

integer The amount refunded in smallest unit of the currency passed.
For example, if amount_refunded = 100, here 100 stands for 100 paise, which is equal to ₹1. INR is the default currency.

captured

boolean Indicates if the payment is captured.

string Customer email address used for the payment.

contact

integer Customer contact number used for the payment.

fee

integer Fee (including GST) charged by Razorpay.

tax

integer GST charged for the payment.

error_code

string Error that occurred during payment. For example, BAD_REQUEST_ERROR.

error_description

string Description of the error that occurred during payment. For example, Payment processing failed because of incorrect OTP.

error_source

string The point of failure. For example, customer.

error_step

string The stage where the transaction failure occurred. The stages can vary depending on the payment method used to complete the transaction. For example, payment_authentication.

error_reason

string The exact error reason. For example, incorrect_otp.

notes

json object Contains user-defined fields, stored for reference purposes.

created_at

integer Timestamp, in UNIX format, on which the payment was created.

name

string Name of the cardholder.

last4

integer The last 4 digits of the card number.

network

string The card network. Possible values:

American Express
Diners Club
Maestro
MasterCard
RuPay
Unknown
Visa

type

string The card type. Possible values:

credit
debit
prepaid
unknown

issuer

string The card issuer. The 4-character code denotes the issuing bank.

Handy Tips

This attribute will not be set for the card issued by a foreign bank.

emi

boolean This attribute is set to true if the card can be used for EMI payment method.

sub_type

string The sub-type of the customer's card. Possible values:

business

Corporate Card
Know how
to accept payments made by customers using corporate cards.

acquirer_data

array A dynamic array consisting of a unique reference numbers.

rrn

string A unique bank reference number provided by banking partner when a refund is processed. This reference number can be used by the customer to track the status of the refund with the bank.

authentication_reference_number

string A unique reference number generated for RuPay card payments.

You can perform the following actions on payments from the

Razorpay Dashboard

Configure settings to
auto-capture payments
.
Manually capture payments
.
Issue a refund for a payment
.
View details of a payment
.
View settlement details of a payment
.

{
  "id": "pay_G3P9vcIhRs3NV4",
  "entity": "payment",
  "amount": 100,
  "currency": "INR",
  "status": "captured",
  "order_id": "order_GjCr5oKh4AVC51",
  "invoice_id": null,
  "international": false,
  "method": "card",
  "amount_refunded": 0,
  "refund_status": null,
  "captured": true,
  "description": "Payment for Adidas shoes",
  "card_id": "card_KOdY30ajbuyOYN",
  "bank": null,
  "wallet": null,
  "vpa": null,
  "email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
  "contact": "9999999999",
  "customer_id": "cust_K6fNE0WJZWGqtN",
  "token_id": "token_KOdY$DBYQOv08n",
  "notes": [],
  "fee": 1,
  "tax": 0,
  "error_code": null,
  "error_description": null,
  "error_source": null,
  "error_step": null,
  "error_reason": null,
  "acquirer_data": {
    "authentication_reference_number": "100222021120200000000742753928"
  },
  "created_at": 1605871409
}

Capture a Payment

The following endpoint helps you capture a payment.

POST

/payments/:id/capture

After the customer's bank authorises the payment, you must verify if the authorised amount deducted from the customer's account is the same as the amount paid by the customer on your website or app.
You can
configure automatic capture
of payments on the Razorpay Dashboard.
Use the above endpoint to change the payment status from authorized to captured.

Watch Out! Attempting to capture a payment whose status is not authorized will produce an error.

Handy Tips

While creating a capture request, in the amount field, enter only the amount associated with the order that is stored in your database.
After the payment capture, the funds are transferred to your account in T+2 days in case of a domestic transaction. For international transactions, the time taken is T+7 business days. The amount sent in the capture request must come from a verified source and be the amount you expect to receive.

Path Parameter

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the payment to be captured.

Request Parameters

amount

mandatory

integer The amount to be captured (should be equal to the authorized amount, in the smallest unit of the chosen currency).

currency

mandatory

string ISO code of the currency in which the payment was made. Refer to the

list of supported currencies

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Fetch a Payment

The following endpoint retrieves details of a specific payment using its id.

GET

/payments/:id

Path Parameter

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the payment to be retrieved.

Query Parameters

expand[]

optional

array Used to retrieve additional information about the payment and the method used to make the payment. The response will include a sub-entity if this parameter is used. Supported values:

card : Expanded card details, applicable for card and EMI payments.
emi : Expanded EMI plan details, applicable for EMI payments.
offers : Expanded Offer details, applicable when an offer was applied to the payment.

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Examples

The expand[] parameter on the Payments endpoint returns expandable fields in the response.

Expanded Card

expand[]=card

Used to expand the card details when the payment method is card.

Expanded EMI

expand[]=emi

Used to expand the EMI plan details when the payment method is emi.

Expanded Offers

expand[]=offers

Used to expand the offers applied to a payment, wherever applicable.

Fetch Multiple Payments

The following endpoint retrieves details of all the payments.

GET

/payments

Handy Tips By default, only the last 10 records are displayed. You can use the count and skip parameters to retrieve the specific number of records that you need.

Query Parameters

from

optional

integer UNIX timestamp, in seconds, from when payments are to be fetched.

optional

integer UNIX timestamp, in seconds, till when payments are to be fetched.

count

optional

integer Number of payments to be fetched.
Default value is 10. Maximum value is 100. This can be used for pagination, in combination with the skip parameter.

skip

optional

integer Number of records to be skipped while fetching the payments.

expand[]

optional

array Used to retrieve additional information about the payment, the method used to make the payment. The response will include a sub-entity if this parameter is used.

Possible values:

card: Expanded card details, usable for card and EMI payments.
emi: Expanded EMI plan details, usable for EMI payments.

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Fetch Expanded Card Details for Payments

The following endpoint retrieves the expanded card details of the payments, in which the payment method is card.

GET

/payments/?expand[]=card

Fetch Expanded EMI Details for Payments

The following endpoint retrieves the expanded EMI plan details of the payments, in which the payment method is emi.

GET

/payments/?expand[]=emi

Fetch Payments Based on Orders

The following endpoint retrieves payments corresponding to an order.

GET

/orders/:id/payments

Path Parameter

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the order for which you want to fetch payment details.

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Fetch Card Details of a Payment

The following endpoint retrieves the details of the card used to make a payment.

GET

/payments/:id/card

Path Parameter

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the payment for which you want to retrieve card details.

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Update the Payment

The following endpoint helps you modify the notes field for a particular payment.

PATCH

/payments/:id/

You can modify an existing payment to update the Notes field only. Notes can be used to record additional information about the payment. You can add up to 15 key-value pairs with each value of the key not exceeding 256 characters.

Request Parameters

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the payment for which the Notes field should be updated.

notes

mandatory

json object Contains user-defined fields and is stored for reference purposes. Know more about

notes

Response Parameters

Descriptions for the response parameters are present in the

Payments Entity

parameters table.

Webhooks

Set up

Razorpay Webhooks to configure and receive notifications when a specific

event

occurs. When one of these events is triggered, we send an HTTP POST

payload

in JSON to the webhook's configured URL.