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Stripe Checkout API

Checkout is a low-code payment integration that creates a customizable form for collecting payments. You can embed Checkout directly in your website or redirect customers to a Stripe-hosted payment page. It supports one-time payments and subscriptions and accepts over 40 local payment methods.

Stripe Checkout API is one of 159 APIs that Stripe publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

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

This API exposes 5 operations across 4 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2023-10-16.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.stripe.com/.

5 operations 4 paths 9 schemas 3 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
2023-10-16
Server
https://api.stripe.com/
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Stripe Checkout API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (auth-scheme) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • basicAuth — Basic HTTP authentication. Allowed headers-- Authorization: Basic | Authorization: Basic
  • bearerAuth — Bearer HTTP authentication. Allowed headers-- Authorization: Bearer

Paths & Operations 5

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 3 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Checkout 5
GET
/v1/checkout/sessions
Returns a list of Checkout Sessions.
GetCheckoutSessions 11 params body → 200default
POST
/v1/checkout/sessions
Creates a Session object.
PostCheckoutSessions body → 200default
GET
/v1/checkout/sessions/{session}
Retrieves a Session object.
GetCheckoutSessionsSession 2 params body → 200default
POST
/v1/checkout/sessions/{session}/expire
A Session can be expired when it is in one of these statuses: open After it expires, a customer can’t complete a Session and customers loading the Session see a message saying the Session is expired.
PostCheckoutSessionsSessionExpire 1 param body → 200default
GET
/v1/checkout/sessions/{session}/line_items
When retrieving a Checkout Session, there is an includable lineitems property containing the first handful of those items. There is also a URL where you can retrieve the full (paginated) list of line…
GetCheckoutSessionsSessionLineItems 5 params body → 200default

Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are checkout.session (54 properties), PostCheckoutSessionsRequest (38 properties), PaymentPagesCheckoutSessionListLineItems (4 properties), PaymentPagesCheckoutSessionList (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

GetCheckoutSessionsSessionRequest
object
PostCheckoutSessionsRequest
object
38 properties
checkout.session
object
A Checkout Session represents your customer's session as they pay for one-time purchases or subscriptions through [Checkout](https://stripe.com/docs/payments/c…
54 properties 12 required
error
object
An error response from the Stripe API
1 property 1 required
PostCheckoutSessionsSessionExpireRequest
object
1 property
PaymentPagesCheckoutSessionList
object
4 properties 4 required
GetCheckoutSessionsRequest
object
GetCheckoutSessionsSessionLineItemsRequest
object
PaymentPagesCheckoutSessionListLineItems
object
4 properties 4 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

stripe-checkout-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Stripe publishes across the network.

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Stripe Balance API
Stripe Billing API
Stripe Charges API
Stripe Climate API
Stripe Country API
Stripe Coupons API
Stripe Credit Notes API
Stripe Customers API
Stripe Disputes API
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