1. Create the Authorization Transaction

Create a one time mandate on UPI to let your customers block an amount and pay later. The amount gets blocked on the customer's bank account and can be debited once within the expiry of the mandate. A one time mandate on UPI can help charge customers post-delivery of products or services, helping make the customer experience delightful for businesses like E-commerce, Travel, Transport, Healthcare, and many more.

Example

Gaurav Kumar wants to reserve a room at Acme Hotel. However, he is still determining the travel plan. He wants to pay after check-in.

Using UPI One Time Mandate, Gaurav Kumar can consent to block the hotel booking amount and only let Acme Hotel debit the amount after check-in.

To create a one time mandate:

Create an Authorisation Transaction

You can create an authorization transaction:

Using the
Razorpay APIs
.
Using a
Registration Link
.

1.1 Using Razorpay APIs

To create an authorization transaction using the Razorpay APIs, you need to:

1.1.1 Create a Customer

Razorpay links recurring tokens to customers via a unique identifier. You can generate this identifier using the Customer API.

You can create

customers

with basic information such as email and contact and use them for various Razorpay offerings. The following endpoint creates a customer.

POST

/customers

Request Parameters

name

mandatory

string The name of the customer. For example, Gaurav Kumar.

mandatory

string The email ID of the customer. For example, gaurav.kumar@example.com.

contact

mandatory

string The phone number of the customer. For example, 9876543210.

fail_existing

optional

boolean The request throws an exception by default if a customer with the exact details already exists. You can pass an additional parameter fail_existing to get the existing customer's details in the response. Possible values:

0: Retrieve details of the existing customer.
1 (default): Throws an exception error.

notes

optional

object Key-value pair that can be used to store additional information about the entity. Maximum 15 key-value pairs, 256 characters (maximum) each. For example, "note_key": "Beam me up Scotty”.

1.1.2. Create an Order

You can use the

Orders API

to create a unique Razorpay order_id that is associated with the authorisation transaction for a one time mandate. To create a one-time mandate, you should pass the value of the frequency parameter as one_time. The following endpoint creates an order.

POST

/orders

Request Parameters

amount

mandatory

integer Amount in currency subunits.

currency

mandatory

string The 3-letter ISO currency code for the payment. Currently, we only support INR.

customer_id

mandatory

string The unique identifier of the customer. For example, cust_4xbQrmEoA5WJ01.

method

mandatory

string The authorisation method. Here, it is upi.

receipt

optional

string A user-entered unique identifier of the order. For example, Receipt No. 1. You should map this parameter to the order_id sent by Razorpay.

notes

optional

object Key-value pair that can be used to store additional information about the entity. Maximum 15 key-value pairs, 256 characters each. For example, "note_key": "Beam me up Scotty”.

token

object Details related to the authorisation such as max amount, frequency and expiry information.

max_amount

mandatory

integer The maximum amount that can be debited in a single charge.

For other categories and MCCs, the minimum value is 100 (₹1) and maximum value is 9999900 (₹99,999).

expire_at

mandatory

integer The Unix timestamp that indicates when the authorisation transaction must expire. The default, and the maximum value allowed is 60 days.

frequency

mandatory

string The frequency at which you can charge your customer. The value should be one_time for one time mandate.

1.1.3. Validate the VPA (UPI ID)

Use the below endpoint to validate the customer's UPI ID.

POST

/payments/validate/vpa

curl -u <YOUR_KEY_ID>:<YOUR_KEY_SECRET> \
-X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/payments/validate/vpa \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "vpa": "gauravkumar@exampleupi"
}'

Request Parameters

vpa

mandatory

string The UPI ID you want to validate. For example, gauravkumar@exampleupi.

1.1.4. Create an Authorization Payment

After you create an order, you should create a payment. Use the endpoint below to create a payment. This is a dummy transaction that fails with an error BAD_REQUEST_DUMMY_PAYMENT when a customer tries to approve the mandate request from a PSP application. A token is created and marked as confirmed for the same.

Handy Tips

You will get the

token.confirmed

webhook after the customer approves the mandate request.

POST

/payments/create/upi

curl -u <YOUR_KEY_ID>:<YOUR_KEY_SECRET> \
-X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/payments/create/upi \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "amount": 200,
  "currency": "INR",
  "order_id": "order_Ee0biRtLOqzRjP",
  "email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
  "contact": "9000090000",
  "customer_id": "cust_EIW4T2etiweBmG",
  "method": "upi",
  "upi": {
    "flow": "collect",
    "vpa": "gauravkumar@exampleupi",
    "expiry_time": 5
  },
  "ip": "192.168.0.103",
  "referer": "http",
  "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0",
  "description": "Test flow",
  "save": 1,
  "notes": {
    "note_key": "value1"
  }
}'

Request Parameters

amount

mandatory

integer The amount associated with the payment in the smallest unit of the supported currency. For example, 2000 means ₹20. Must match the amount in

Step 1.1.2: Create an Order

currency

mandatory

string The 3-letter ISO currency code for the payment. Currently, we only support INR.

order_id

mandatory

string The unique identifier of the order created in

Step 1.1.2: Create an Order

mandatory

string The customer's email address. For example, gaurav.kumar@example.com.

contact

mandatory

string The customer's contact number. For example, 9123456780.

customer_id

mandatory

string Unique identifier of the customer, obtained from the response of

Step 1.1.1: Create a Customer

method

mandatory

string The payment method selected by the customer. Here, the value must be upi.

upi

object Details of the expiry of the UPI link

flow

mandatory

string Specify the type of the UPI payment flow.
Possible values are:

collect (default)
intent

vpa

mandatory

string The VPA of the customer where the collect request will be sent.

expiry_time

mandatory

integer Period of time (in minutes) after which the link will expire. The default value is 5.

mandatory

string Client's browser IP address. For example, 117.217.74.98.

referer

mandatory

string Value of referer header passed by the client's browser. For example,

https://example.com/

user_agent

mandatory

string Value of user_agent header passed by the client's browser.
For example, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.130 Safari/537.36

description

optional

string Descriptive text of the payment.

save

optional

boolean Specifies if the VPA should be stored as a token. Possible values:

1 - Saves the VPA details.
0(default) - Does not save the VPA details.

notes

optional

json object Key-value pairs that can hold additional information about the payment.
Refer to the

Notes

section of the API Reference Guide.

1.2. Using a Registration Link

Registration Links are an alternate way of creating an authorization transaction. If you create a registration link, you need not create a customer or an order.

When you create a registration link, an

invoice

is automatically issued to the customer. The customer can use the invoice to make the Authorization Payment.

Know how to

create Registration Links

using the Razorpay Dashboard.

Handy Tips

You can use webhooks to get notifications about successful payments against a registration link. Know more about

Webhooks

1.2.1. Create a Registration Link

The following endpoint creates a registration link you can share with your customers to make one time mandate payments. This is a dummy transaction that fails with an error BAD_REQUEST_DUMMY_PAYMENT when a customer tries to approve the mandate request from a PSP application. A token is created and marked as confirmed for the same.

POST

/subscription_registration/auth_links

curl -u <YOUR_KEY_ID>:<YOUR_KEY_SECRET>
-X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/subscription_registration/auth_links
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "customer": {
    "name": "Gaurav Kumar",
    "email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
    "contact": "9123456780"
  },
   "type": "link",
   "amount": "100",
   "currency": "INR",
   "description": "Registration Link for Gaurav Kumar",
   "subscription_registration": {
      "method": "upi",
      "max_amount": "500",
      "expire_at": 4102444799,
      "frequency": "one_time"
   },
   "receipt": "Receipt No. 23",
   "email_notify": 1,
   "sms_notify": 1,
   "expire_by": 4102444799,
   "notes":{
    "note_key 1":"Beam me up Scotty",
    "note_key 2":"Tea. Earl Gray. Hot."
  }
}'

{
  "id": "inv_FHr1ekX0r2VCVK",
  "entity": "invoice",
  "receipt": "Receipt No. 23",
  "invoice_number": "Receipt No. 23",
  "customer_id": "cust_BMB3EwbqnqZ2EI",
  "customer_details": {
    "id": "cust_BMB3EwbqnqZ2EI",
    "name": "Gaurav Kumar",
    "email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
    "contact": "9123456780",
    "gstin": null,
    "billing_address": null,
    "shipping_address": null,
    "customer_name": "Gaurav Kumar",
    "customer_email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
    "customer_contact": "9123456780"
  },
  "order_id": "order_FHr1ehR3nmNeXo",
  "line_items": [],
  "payment_id": null,
  "status": "issued",
  "expire_by": 4102444799,
  "issued_at": 1595489219,
  "paid_at": null,
  "cancelled_at": null,
  "expired_at": null,
  "sms_status": "pending",
  "email_status": "pending",
  "date": 1595489219,
  "terms": null,
  "partial_payment": false,
  "gross_amount": 100,
  "tax_amount": 0,
  "taxable_amount": 0,
  "amount": 100,
  "amount_paid": 0,
  "amount_due": 100,
  "currency": "INR",
  "currency_symbol": "₹",
  "description": "Registration Link for Gaurav Kumar",
  "notes": {
    "note_key 1": "Beam me up Scotty",
    "note_key 2": "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot."
  },
  "comment": null,
  "short_url": "https://rzp.io/i/ak1WxDB",
  "view_less": true,
  "billing_start": null,
  "billing_end": null,
  "type": "link",
  "group_taxes_discounts": false,
  "created_at": 1595489219,
  "idempotency_key": null
}

Request Parameters

customer

object Details of the customer to whom the registration link is sent.

name

mandatory

string Customer's name.

mandatory

string Customer's email address.

contact

mandatory

integer Customer's contact number.

type

mandatory

string In this case, the value is link.

amount

mandatory

integer The payment amount in the smallest currency sub-unit.

currency

mandatory

string The 3-letter ISO currency code for the payment. Currently, only INR is supported.

description

mandatory

string A description that appears on the hosted page. For example, 12:30 p.m. Thali meals (Gaurav Kumar).

subscription_registration

object Details of the authorisation transaction.

method

mandatory

string The payment method used to make authorisation transaction. Here, it is card.

max_amount

mandatory

integer Use to set the maximum amount (in paise) per debit request.

For other categories and MCCs, the minimum value is 100 (₹1) and maximum value is 9999900 (₹99,999).

expire_at

optional

integer The Unix timestamp till when you can use the token to charge the customer subsequent payments. The default value is 10 years, and the maximum value allowed is 30 years.

frequency

mandatory

string The frequency at which you can charge your customer. The value should be one_time for one time mandate.

sms_notify

optional

boolean Indicates if SMS notifications are to be sent by Razorpay. Possible values:

0: Notifications are not sent by Razorpay.
1: Notifications are sent by Razorpay (default value).

email_notify

optional

boolean Indicates if email notifications are to be sent by Razorpay. Possible values:

0: Notifications are not sent by Razorpay.
1: Notifications are sent by Razorpay (default value).

expire_by

optional

integer The Unix timestamp indicates the expiry of the registration link.

receipt

optional

string A unique identifier entered by you for the order. For example, Receipt No. 1. You should map this parameter to the order_id sent by Razorpay.

notes

optional

object This is a key-value pair that is used to store additional information about the entity. Maximum 15 key-value pairs, 256 characters (maximum) each. For example, "note_key": "Beam me up Scotty”.

1.2.2. Send/Resend Notifications

The following endpoint sends/resends notifications with the short URL to the customer:

POST

/invoices/:id/notify_by/:medium

Path Parameters

mandatory

string The unique identifier of the invoice linked to the registration link for which you want to send the notification. For example, inv_1Aa00000000001.

medium

mandatory

string Determines through which medium you want to resend the notification. Possible values:

sms
email

1.2.3. Cancel a Registration Link

The following endpoint cancels a registration link.

POST

/invoices/:id/cancel

Handy Tips

You can only cancel registration link in the issued state.

curl -u [YOUR_KEY_ID]:[YOUR_KEY_SECRET]
-X POST https://api.razorpay.com/v1/invoices/inv_1Aa00000000001/cancel

{
    "id": "inv_FHrfRupD2ouKIt",
    "entity": "invoice",
    "receipt": "Receipt No. 1",
    "invoice_number": "Receipt No. 1",
    "customer_id": "cust_BMB3EwbqnqZ2EI",
    "customer_details": {
        "id": "cust_BMB3EwbqnqZ2EI",
        "name": "Gaurav Kumar",
        "email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
        "contact": "9123456780",
        "gstin": null,
        "billing_address": null,
        "shipping_address": null,
        "customer_name": "Gaurav Kumar",
        "customer_email": "gaurav.kumar@example.com",
        "customer_contact": "9123456780"
    },
    "order_id": "order_FHrfRw4TZU5Q2L",
    "line_items": [],
    "payment_id": null,
    "status": "cancelled",
    "expire_by": 4102444799,
    "issued_at": 1595491479,
    "paid_at": null,
    "cancelled_at": 1595491488,
    "expired_at": null,
    "sms_status": "sent",
    "email_status": "sent",
    "date": 1595491479,
    "terms": null,
    "partial_payment": false,
    "gross_amount": 100,
    "tax_amount": 0,
    "taxable_amount": 0,
    "amount": 100,
    "amount_paid": 0,
    "amount_due": 100,
    "currency": "INR",
    "currency_symbol": "₹",
    "description": "Registration Link for Gaurav Kumar",
    "notes": {
        "note_key 1": "Beam me up Scotty",
        "note_key 2": "Tea. Earl Gray. Hot."
    },
    "comment": null,
    "short_url": "https://rzp.io/i/QlfexTj",
    "view_less": true,
    "billing_start": null,
    "billing_end": null,
    "type": "link",
    "group_taxes_discounts": false,
    "created_at": 1595491480,
    "idempotency_key": null
}

Path Parameters

mandatory

string The unique identifier for the invoice linked to the registration link that you want to cancel. For example, inv_1Aa00000000001.