Launching our React SDK

January 27, 2020

Payhere + React

We love React and Gatsby at Payhere! We recently made a lot of powerful updates to our embed SDK and wanted to bring those natively to React.

That time has now arrived, we’ve just launched our payhere-embed-sdk on npm and it has React support built-in. Head over to the React docs to get started.

Integrating payhere into your own websites / web apps allows a much more seamless experience and in combination with a modern frontend stack like Gatsby you can have lightening fast payments setup in a matter of minutes.

Now possible with Payhere + React

1. Calculate the price on your end

In combination with our donations feature you can pass in a custom amount generated on your site, this opens us up to integrations like shopping carts, especially now that we can capture additional data through custom fields.

Find out how

2. Capture additional data

Hidden custom fields allow passing extra data along with a payment that will make its way back to your servers in a webhook or through our API. This allows you to do things like embed a hidden user_id with the payment and match it up when the webhook comes in.

Find out how

We can’t wait to see what you build with Payhere and React!

Thanks,
Team Payhere

Embed SDK improvements

January 13, 2020

Pete Hawkins

We've been working hard on a few major new features the past few weeks, some of the most notable are custom fields, donations (pay what you want) and GoCardless integration.

Custom fields

With the launch of custom fields we have improved our Embed SDK, allow you to pass along custom field values. You can also mark custom fields as hidden from the payment form. This allows you to pass custom metadata along with a payment that your end customer doesn't have to see. It could be as simple as an order ID, so that when webhooks come in you can easily connect up a payment and order in your system.

Donations

One-off and recurring donations open up the usefulness of payhere, not only for charitable or pay-what-you-want products, but also allow you to figure out the customers price on your website and simply pass that into the payhere plan.

When creating your plan just remember to check the 'Customer sets price (donation)' box.

This opens the doors to custom shopping carts pluging into a payhere checkout etc.

We'll be working on some open source examples of how we think you can use payhere, no doubt you will all come up with your own creative solutions, if you have any questions or ideas please email us!

You can find further documentation on both of these in our Advanced Embed SDK docs

Thanks, Pete and the Payhere team

Developer documentation launched

March 2, 2019

Pete Hawkins

Our big launch has had many of you signup and start using Payhere in really cool ways! This is something we should have done ages ago, but we're finally getting around to releasing our developer documentation. This site is to serve as an example of how Payhere can be integrated and to give you fine folks all the technical info so you can integrate any which way you like.