Express Checkout for API

This documentation on Express Checkout is for merchants who have implemented one of our two API-based solutions:

• API Javascript SDK
• API

Express Checkout Overview

Express Checkout can be initiated from a merchant's cart page or product detail page to encourage customers to pay with Zip earlier on in the checkout process. Express checkout allows the customer to bypass the merchant's shipping and billing information pages for a faster checkout experience.

Cart Page Example

PDP Example

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Express Checkout on PDP

With Express checkout on PDP, as customers will be checking out with Zip straight from the product page, it is recommended to only implement this for items where a customer's cart will typically only contain that one item.

Zip will collect the shipping and customer address information in the Express flow:

API Javascript SDK Integration — Express Implementation

The customer shipping information is passed back to the merchant in 3 ways:

1. Query string parameters
2. The /orders/authorize webhook response

timestamp: "2023-05-09T18:17:53.8015512Z"
merchantId: "44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444"
orderId: "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
currency: "USD"
amount: 123.45
merchantReference: "ref_1234567"
test: false
success: true
metadata: {}
customer: {{
    firstName: "First"
    lastName: "Last"
    email: "[email protected]"
    phone: "+15555555555"
}
address: {
line1: "123 St."
line2: "444"
city: "New York"
state: "NY"
postalCode: "10001"
country: "US"
}}
territory: "US"

3. The OnComplete Callback response.

customer:
   address1: "123 St"
   address2: null
   city: "New York"
   country: "US"
   email: "[email protected]"
   firstName: "John"
   lastName: "Doe"
   phoneNumber: "+15555555555"
   postalCode: "10001"
   state: "NY"
 
order: 
   amount: 100
   currency: "USD"
   isSuccess: true
   isTest: false
   merchantId:  "44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444"
   merchantReference: "ref_1234567"
   orderId: "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
   timestamp: "2023-05-25T17:56:58"

shippingAddress: 
   city: "New York"
   country: "US"
   line1: "456 St"
   line2: null
   postalCode: "10001"
   state: "NY"

How to Implement

• Follow the steps here in our API Javascript SDK documentation, to complete the server-side implementation:
  • Calculate the signature
• And complete the steps here to complete the client-side implementation:
  • Implement relevant endpoints to capture, refund, void, etc.
  • Retrieve computed signature from the server-side
  • Add a reference to our CDN-hosted JavaScript library.
  • Implement an HTML DOM element to attach the click event to call the openCheckout function
  • Implement one or many callback functionality(s) and customize the payment flow.
  • Add checkoutFlow="express" to the request body of the openCheckout function
  • Either pass in the exact tax + shipping amount, or if that is not possible, please reach out to us at [email protected] so that we can configure your account on our end to support an estimated tax + shipping amount solution.

Standard API Integration — Express Implementation

The customer shipping information is passed back to the merchant in 2 ways:

1. Query string parameters
2. The /orders/authorize webhook response

timestamp: "2023-05-09T18:17:53.8015512Z"
merchantId: "44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444"
orderId: "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
currency: "USD"
amount: 123.45
merchantReference: "ref_1234567"
test: false
success: true
metadata: {}
customer: {{
    firstName: "First"
    lastName: "Last"
    email: "[email protected]"
    phone: "+15555555555"
}
address: {
line1: "123 St."
line2: "444"
city: "New York"
state: "NY"
postalCode: "10001"
country: "US"
}}
territory: "US"

How to Implement

• Follow the steps here in our API Implementation documentation to complete the server-side implementation:
  • Calculate the signature
• And this step to complete the client-side implementation:
  • Implement relevant endpoints to capture, refund, void, etc.
  • Add checkoutFlow="express"as a parameter to your /orders/authorize call.
  • Either pass in the exact tax + shipping amount, or if that is not possible, please reach out to us at [email protected] so that we can configure your account on our end to support an estimated tax + shipping amount solution.