Recharge-hosted checkout

Use Recharge's Checkout API to create a checkout experience for customers that directs them to the Recharge-hosted checkout. The Recharge-hosted heckout is availabe on your storefront and lets you process checkouts that sync with the Recharge system.

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Platform

• Custom

Overview

There are two steps to process checkout orders via the Recharge-hosted checkout:

1. Create the Checkout object
2. Redirect checkout to Recharge

Step 1 - Create the Checkout object

There are two main steps to process checkouts via the Recharge-Hosted Checkout.

Call your middleware to build the checkout object when a user clicks the checkout button on the storefront (or any action that triggers the checkout process is taken).

POST your cart contents (or custom-built line items) to the Recharge checkout endpoint, along with any miscellaneous properties (ie. UTM parameters, discount codes).

Example POST to /checkouts

import requests
import json

headers = {
  "X-Recharge-Access-Token": "<your_api_token>",
  "Accept": "application/json",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
url = "https://api.rechargeapps.com/checkouts"
data = {
  "line_items": [
    {
      "charge_interval_frequency": 5,
      "cutoff_day_of_month": None,
      "cutoff_day_of_week": None,
      "expire_after_specific_number_of_charges": None,
      "fulfillment_service": "manual",
      "order_day_of_month": None,
      "order_day_of_week": None,
      "order_interval_frequency": 5,
      "order_interval_unit": "day",
      "product_id": <product_id>,
      "quantity": 6,
      "requires_shipping": True,
      "taxable": True,
      "variant_id": <variant_id>,
    }
  ],
}
result = requests.post(url, json.dumps(data), headers=headers)

Step 2- Redirect customers to Recharge

After the API creates the checkout record, it responds with a Token property. You can include this token property in a redirect URL to send back to Recharge, allowing the customer to complete the transaction via the ReCharge-Hosted Checkout. The URL to redirect to is:

https://checkout.rechargeapps.com/r/checkout/<Token>