Accept Blue Subscriptions

Official documentation here

Create recurring subscriptions with the Accept Blue platform.

A customer places an order with products that represent subscriptions
Customer adds a payment to order with addPaymentToOrder and supplies credit card details:
- A customer is created in Accept Blue
- A payment method with the card details is added to the customer
- A charge is created for the customer with the initial amount due
- A recurring subscription(s) for that customer is created
If all succeed, the order is transitioned to PaymentSettled

Add to your Vendure config:

Start the server, create a payment method and select Accept Blue as handler
Place an order and use one of the payment methods below:

:warning: Set Use test mode in your payment handler in the admin UI to use Accept Blue in test mode.

Payment methods

These are the different payment methods you can use to pay for an order. Keep in mind that these examples use sample input data.

You can use the query eligibleAcceptBluePaymentMethods to check what payment methods and card types are enabled. This is configured in Vendure: your Accept Blue API Key should have all methods enabled for this to work.

Pay with Saved Payment Method

If a customer already has a payment method saved in Accept Blue, you can use that to pay for an order.

Pay with Check

Pay with Nonce/Tokenized card

With the hosted tokenization form, you can obtain a token that represents a credit card, and use that to pay for an order. More info on hosted tokenization here: https://docs.accept.blue/tokenization/v0.2

Managing payment methods

You can fetch payment methods on a customer: on active customer when you are logged in, or on any customer via the Admin API.

To update payment methods, you can use the following mutations. For the Shop API, you need to be logged in as the customer and be owner of the payment method. For the Admin API, you only need to be logged in as an admin and have UpdateCustomer permissions.

Or for a check payment method:

For creating a a card payment method, you need to use Hosted Tokenization (see Pay with Nonce/Tokenized card above). After getting a nonce token, you can use the following mutation to create a card payment method. For the Shop API, you need to be logged in. For the Admin API, you need to pass an Accept Blue customer ID into the mutation.

To create a check payment method, you can use the createAcceptBlueCheckPaymentMethod mutation.

To connect a new payment method to a subscription, you can use the updateAcceptBlueSubscription mutation.

For the Shop API, you need to be logged in as the customer and be owner of the payment method and the recurring schedule. For the Admin API, you only need to be logged in as an admin and have UpdateOrder permissions.

Fetching Transactions and Subscriptions for placed orders

After an order is placed, the order.lines.acceptBlueSubscriptions is populated with the actual subscription values from the Accept Blue platform, so it will not call your strategy anymore. This is to better reflect the subscription that was actually created at the time of ordering.

This means you can now also get the transactions per subscriptions with the field order.lines.acceptBlueSubscriptions.transactions. To refund a transaction, you first need to get the transaction id.

Refunding

Only the initial payment is handled as a Vendure payment, any other refunds are done via a dedicated mutation:

Fetch transactions for a customer or a subscription as explained above
Use the transaction ID to create a refund:

The arguments amount and cvv2 are optional, see the Accept Blue Docs for more info.

Updating Subscriptions

You can update created subscriptions in Accept Blue as Admin via de admin-api with UpdateOrder permissions:

This wil emit an AcceptBlueSubscriptionEvent of type updated.

Accept Blue Surcharges

You can use the query acceptBlueSurcharge to see what surcharges your account has configured.

CORS

If you run into CORS issues loading the Accept Blue hosted tokenization javascript library, you might need to remove the cross-origin key on your script tag.

Incoming events and webhooks

This plugin emits an AcceptBlueTransactionEvent whenever it receives a webhook with a transaction update from Accept Blue.

Google Pay

This plugin also allows you to integration Google Pay. You will need to implement the Google Pay button on your storefront first.

Checkout the video to get a good understanding of the flow: https://developers.google.com/pay/api/web/overview
The complete script is available here: https://developers.google.com/pay/api/web/guides/tutorial#full-example
Integrate the Google Pay button on your storefront: https://docs.accept.blue/digital-wallet/google-pay

After that, you end up with a token you receive from Google. Send that data to Vendure like so:

Make sure that your amount equals the amount of the order! The amount is passed in as whole amount, not in cents, because this is how you will receive it from Google.

You can configure the Merchant ID and Gateway Merchant ID on the payment method in Vendure, and fetch them via eligiblePaymentMethods or eligibleAcceptBluePaymentMethods.