Charge a payment for subscription from external subsription system

Hi @dev4ls,

I’m curious to know if it’s possible to charge a payment token/profile from an external system?

Yes it’s possible.

urrently, with tokenized CCs we can reference the token and use the payment, but not sure how to achieve that with this BrainTree plugin.

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean. Can you please try to clarify?

Are you asking how you can tokenize the customer’s payment method during the checkout process?

Kind Regards,

Hello,

I believe I am would like to know the process of ‘vaulting’ payment methods during checkout, for subscription use later by an external system.

I say this because I’m not sure if that’s the solution needed to accomplish that goal with this plugin, but reading BrainTree docs, vaulted payments are the ones used for recurring payments so it leads me to think I do.

Happy to be corrected if I misunderstood something!

Hi @dev4ls,

If you’re needing to process a recurring payment via an external system, then yes you would want to vault the payment method during the checkout process. To accomplish that you can use the filters provided in the plugin to change the transaction args so that the payment method is vaulted.

Example:

add_filter('wc_braintree_order_transaction_args', function($args, $order){
    $args['options']['storeInVaultOnSuccess'] = true;
    return $args;
}, 10, 2);

Braintree Plugin API Docs

You should require that your customers create an account on the checkout page (if they aren’t already logged in). That way the Braintree plugin will automatically create the Braintree Customer ID and associate it to the user.

Kind Regards,

Lovely solution and great tip about the login requirement!

Is there a working link or reference to the hook and action docs available for this plugin?

Following the links on the site lead to 404s so I was unable to learn this information in an easily accessible manner.

Hi @dev4ls,

The following link works which leads directly to the filter in the provided example:

https://docs.paymentplugins.com/wc-braintree/api/source-class-WC_Braintree_Payment_Gateway.html#492

We’re fixing the Hook Reference link on our API docs site.

Kind Regards,

Hook reference link is now working and not returning a 404 on the docs site.

Thank you very much for the support on this!

You’re welcome. We always appreciate good feedback if you have time.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/woo-payment-gateway/reviews/