Documentation

Overview

Learn about Checkout and how you can start using it.

What is Checkout

Checkout is a prebuilt solution, in addition to Composable Commerce. It helps you create an enhanced checkout experience for your customers by offering you a seamless, efficient, and safer checkout solution to integrate into your commerce websites or applications. Additionally, it provides you the flexibility to support existing and future channels, and the speed to convert new sales opportunities. The Checkout application is available by default in the Merchant Center.

Why Checkout

Implementing a checkout solution might seem straightforward, but it involves a complex integration of various components such as product catalog, order processing, pricing, cart management, and payment service providers (PSPs). It encompasses more than just designing the checkout interface; it requires substantial time and effort to ensure that it's executed correctly, securely, and with optimal performance.

With Checkout, you can significantly accelerate your time to market. The Checkout Browser SDK drastically lowers the need to build and maintain Checkout, including PSP integration. By leveraging our expertise and ready-made features, you can focus on other critical aspects of your business, reduce development time, and get your product in front of customers faster, giving you a competitive edge in the market.

Features

  • Out-of-the-box checkout UI: create a one-page checkout experience with minimal development effort.
  • Seamless and fast integration: reduce 50 API calls to 3 to create an adaptable checkout solution, and go live 80% faster with a wide range of Composable Commerce APIs and features.
  • Built-in PCI compliance: handle payments securely and confidently without the burden of compliance worries. Checkout is compliant with the payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS), the current compliance standard.
  • Localization: localize your checkout experience to display local currencies, automate regional tax calculations, and offer multi-language support.
  • Customization: customize Checkout with rule-based routing, for example, show payment method X in country Y, or show payment method A when product B is added to the cart.
  • Real-time feedback: subscribe to event Messages to receive real-time feedback about activities in the checkout process, helping you stay informed and improve customer experiences.

Use cases

Checkout empowers you to elevate your commerce capabilities by providing seamless shopping experiences to customers and helping you in making every touchpoint a sales opportunity.

The following are some of the key scenarios where our checkout solution can be used:

  • Convert campaign pages and microsites into seamless shopping experiences. By adding a "Buy Now" button and integrating Checkout, customers can complete their purchase directly within the campaign or microsite, thus eliminating the need for redirects to the main commerce site.
  • Use QR codes on product packaging to instantly check out the product. You will not be redirected to a shop page, but instead, to the checkout process directly.
  • Take advantage of an effortless process when integrating challenging shopping features while creating mobile applications to enhance customer connections.

Complete Checkout and Payment Only modes

Depending on your needs, you can use Checkout in two modes:

  • Complete Checkout
  • Payment Only BETA

Complete Checkout mode

The Complete Checkout mode is recommended if you want to create and customize your entire checkout experience with Checkout.

When using this mode, you can leverage all the Checkout functionality to provide your customers with the following:

  • Shipping and billing address forms
  • Selection of the shipping method
  • Selection of the payment method and entry of payment data
  • Acceptance of terms and conditions
  • Order summary
  • Checkout success and failure pages

Payment Only mode BETA

The Payment Only mode is recommended if you want to keep your existing checkout flow but accept payments using the Checkout payment functionality.

When using this mode you can leverage the payment functionality of Checkout to let your customers select a payment method and enter their payment data. All other Checkout functionality is not available.

Workflow

To get started with Checkout, follow these steps:

  1. In the Merchant Center main menu, click Checkout. Then, confirm permissions and a Subscription.

  2. Install at least one payment Connector from Connect.

  3. Create at least one Application.

  4. Integrate Checkout with your web application.

  5. Customize the following according to your needs:

    When using Checkout in Payment Only mode, you can customize only the font and colors and the texts and labels.