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braintree Payment Methods API

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting vaulted payment methods associated with customers.

braintree Payment Methods API is one of 14 APIs that Braintree publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Payment Methods. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 4 operations across 2 paths, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.braintreegateway.com/merchants/{merchantId}, https://api.sandbox.braintreegateway.com/merchants/{merchantId}.

4 operations 2 paths 5 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.braintreegateway.com
Authentication
HTTP Basic
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

braintree Payment Methods API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — HTTP Basic Authentication using the merchant's public API key as the username and private API key as the password, Base64-encoded per RFC 7617.

Paths & Operations 4

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Payment Methods 4

Operations for creating, retrieving, updating, and deleting vaulted payment methods associated with customers.

POST
/payment_methods
Create a payment method
createPaymentMethod body → 201400401422
GET
/payment_methods/any/{paymentMethodToken}
Get a payment method
getPaymentMethod 1 param → 200401404
PUT
/payment_methods/any/{paymentMethodToken}
Update a payment method
updatePaymentMethod 1 param body → 200400401404
DELETE
/payment_methods/any/{paymentMethodToken}
Delete a payment method
deletePaymentMethod 1 param → 200401404

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Address (9 properties), PaymentMethod (6 properties), PaymentMethodRequest (5 properties), PaymentMethodUpdateRequest (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

PaymentMethodUpdateRequest
object
Request body for updating an existing vaulted payment method.
3 properties
PaymentMethodRequest
object
Request body for vaulting a new payment method for an existing customer.
5 properties 2 required
Address
object
A billing or shipping address associated with a transaction or customer.
9 properties
PaymentMethod
object
Represents a payment method stored in the Braintree Vault. This is a polymorphic object that may represent a credit card, PayPal account, Venmo account, or oth…
6 properties
Error
object
Standard error response returned by the Braintree API.
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

braintree-payment-methods-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Braintree publishes across the network.

Braintree GraphQL API
Braintree JavaScript Client SDK
Braintree iOS SDK
Braintree Android SDK
Braintree Webhooks
braintree Add-Ons API
braintree Client Tokens API
braintree Customers API
braintree Discounts API
braintree Disputes API
braintree Plans API
braintree Subscriptions API
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