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Learn how to enable Save Card functionality for later use.

You can provide your mobile app users with the ability to save their card information securely for future use. This allows users to set their preferred payment method, reducing the need to enter card information repeatedly. This is a nice-to-have feature in your app, however, this is optional.

The following gif is a demonstration of this feature within a mobile app.

Enabling Save Card

To enable the Save Card functionality within your app, do the following:

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  • Dojo understands that each app is built differently. The steps listed serve as a good reference to build this feature into your app.
  • user and customer might be used interchangeably in this guide except for customer API endpoints.

Step 1: Ensure you have a customer id

  • If you don’t have a Dojo user to link to your backend user, create a new one using POST/customers.
  • If you already have a customerId, retrieve it.
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  • Don't create a new customer for each transaction. This avoids customers from accessing their saved cards.

Step 2: Authorize your app to retrieve customer’s saved cards

For mobile SDK to retrieve information about saved cards for a specific user, you must create and pass a customer secret using POST /customers/{customerId}/create-secret.

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  • To create a customer secret, ensure you have the customerId from step 1 and your API Key.
  • You must always create a customer secret in your backend and then pass it to your app.
  • Never store sensitive data such as API Keys inside your app.
  • Customer secret is short-lived, hence Dojo recommends creating a new one each time your app might need to access stored payment methods.

The following code samples demonstrate how to create a customer secret.

create-customer-secret.sh
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Step 3: Create a payment intent linked to the customerId

When creating a payment intent, pass the customerId to the payment intent request body.

"customer": {
"customerId": "cust_sandbox_9WibJ2zeMU2C9gkRnDgs1g"
}

Step 4: Initiate payment flow in the app

Pass the paymentIntentId and customer secret to your app and then pass them to the mobile SDK to start the checkout process.

create-customer-secret.swift
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Step 5: Receive payment status

Once payment is completed, the SDK gets a notification with a numerical code representing the result. Check out the status codes reference for more information about what each code means. Additionally, your backend will receive a notification via Webhook.