Shift4 Payments Charges API
Create, retrieve, update, capture, and list charges.
Shift4 Payments Charges API is one of 20 APIs that Shift4 Payments publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 9 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Charges. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a JSON-LD context, and 9 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 14 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.shift4.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Shift4 Payments Charges API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (BasicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
BasicAuth— Use your secret API key as the username with an empty password.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 2 GET, 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Create, retrieve, update, capture, and list charges.
Schemas 14
The contract defines 14 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Charge (24 properties), Card (21 properties), PaymentMethod (13 properties), CardRequest (11 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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