Bill Payment
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Please be informed that the bill payment service will be discontinued on Oct 1st, 2024. Merchants can continue to use other payment methods as usual. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Enable your customers to pay for purchases over the counter using Bill Payment. This payment method generates a unique barcode at checkout which your customer can take to supported Lotus's branches to pay at their convenience. This guide walks you through the payment flow and details on how to implement.
Lotus's charges a transaction fee of ฿10 to the customer at the payment point.
How to enable
- Supported Countries: Thailand
- Minimum API version:
2017-11-02
To enable Bill Payment, send an email requesting this feature to support@opn.ooo. You will need to review and accept new terms and conditions.
Payment flow
Customers paying via Bill Payment go through an offline payment flow. This means that once the charge is created, it must be authorized by the customer at a physical location.
The following screenshots illustrate this flow.
First, the customer selects the payment method Lotus's Bill Payment
.
This creates a unique barcode which the customer can present at a Lotus's payment counter to complete the charge. The barcode will expire in 24 hours.
Upon payment, Opnn Payments will send a webhook event (if enabled) indicating that the charge is complete.
Implementation
To create a charge using Bill Payment, make the following API requests.
- Create a new payment source (
type
:bill_payment_tesco_lotus
) using Omise.js or one of the mobile SDKs (iOS and Android) - Create a new charge using the identifier of the source created in Step 1.
- After receiving the charge completion webhook event, retrieve the charge to verify its status (optional, but recommended).
Use your public key to create the Bill Payment source on the client (a customer's browser or mobile phone). Use your secret key to create the Bill Payment charge on the server.
If both the creation and charge of a source must happen server-side, you can create and charge the source in a single API request using your secret key.
Creating a source
When the customer confirms that they wish to pay with this payment method, create a new source specifying the amount
, currency
, and type
.
The following examples demonstrate the creation of a new Bill Payment source for ฿4,000. Replace the omise_public_key
and $OMISE_PUBLIC_KEY
variables with the test public key found on your dashboard.
Using Omise.js, the
type
parameter is supplied as the first argument to thecreateSource
method.
Omise.setPublicKey(omise_public_key);
Omise.createSource('bill_payment_tesco_lotus', {
"amount": 400000,
"currency": "THB"
}, function(statusCode, response) {
console.log(response)
});
For testing, you can create the same request using curl.
curl https://api.omise.co/sources \
-u $OMISE_PUBLIC_KEY: \
-d "amount=400000" \
-d "currency=THB" \
-d "type=bill_payment_tesco_lotus"
{
"object": "source",
"id": "src_test_5lwtu0n9gbcrne0p622",
"livemode": false,
"location": "/sources/src_test_5lwtu0n9gbcrne0p622",
"amount": 400000,
"barcode": null,
"created_at": "2020-11-18T01:47:38Z",
"currency": "THB",
"email": null,
"flow": "offline",
"installment_term": null,
"name": null,
"mobile_number": null,
"phone_number": null,
"scannable_code": null,
"references": null,
"store_id": null,
"store_name": null,
"terminal_id": null,
"type": "bill_payment_tesco_lotus",
"zero_interest_installments": null,
"charge_status": "unknown"
}
The id
attribute is the source identifier (begins with src
).
Creating a charge
Create a charge specifying the parameters source
, amount
, and currency
.
source
specifies the source identifier.amount
andcurrency
must matchamount
andcurrency
of the source.
The following example demonstrates how to create a new charge using curl.
Replace $OMISE_SECRET_KEY
with your test secret key found on your dashboard.
Replace $SOURCE_ID
with the id
of the source.
curl https://api.omise.co/charges \
-u $OMISE_SECRET_KEY: \
-d "amount=400000" \
-d "currency=THB" \
-d "source=$SOURCE_ID"
{
"object": "charge",
"id": "chrg_test_5lwtu0sb5oziy7m1oy5",
"location": "/charges/chrg_test_5lwtu0sb5oziy7m1oy5",
"amount": 400000,
"net": 384378,
"fee": 14600,
"fee_vat": 1022,
"interest": 0,
"interest_vat": 0,
"funding_amount": 400000,
"refunded_amount": 0,
"authorized": false,
"capturable": false,
"capture": true,
"disputable": false,
"livemode": false,
"refundable": false,
"reversed": false,
"reversible": false,
"voided": false,
"paid": false,
"expired": false,
"platform_fee": {
"fixed": null,
"amount": null,
"percentage": null
},
"currency": "THB",
"funding_currency": "THB",
"ip": null,
"refunds": {
"object": "list",
"data": [],
"limit": 20,
"offset": 0,
"total": 0,
"location": "/charges/chrg_test_5lwtu0sb5oziy7m1oy5/refunds",
"order": "chronological",
"from": "1970-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"to": "2020-11-18T01:47:39Z"
},
"link": null,
"description": null,
"metadata": {},
"card": null,
"source": {
"object": "source",
"id": "src_test_5lwtu0bpmwp4n3i9ylf",
"livemode": false,
"location": "/sources/src_test_5lwtu0bpmwp4n3i9ylf",
"amount": 400000,
"barcode": null,
"created_at": "2020-11-18T01:47:36Z",
"currency": "THB",
"email": null,
"flow": "offline",
"installment_term": null,
"name": null,
"mobile_number": null,
"phone_number": null,
"scannable_code": null,
"references": {
"expires_at": "2020-11-19T01:47:38Z",
"device_id": null,
"customer_amount": null,
"customer_currency": null,
"customer_exchange_rate": null,
"omise_tax_id": "0105556091152",
"reference_number_1": "707143688374935790",
"reference_number_2": "300256148058569221",
"barcode": "https://api.omise.co/charges/chrg_test_5lwtu0sb5oziy7m1oy5/documents/docu_test_5lwtu0tm9ujmfggobgh/downloads/9D514896BA3DB0CE",
"payment_code": null,
"va_code": null
},
"store_id": null,
"store_name": null,
"terminal_id": null,
"type": "bill_payment_tesco_lotus",
"zero_interest_installments": null,
"charge_status": "pending"
},
"schedule": null,
"customer": null,
"dispute": null,
"transaction": null,
"failure_code": null,
"failure_message": null,
"status": "pending",
"authorize_uri": null,
"return_uri": null,
"created_at": "2020-11-18T01:47:38Z",
"paid_at": null,
"expires_at": "2020-11-19T01:47:38Z",
"expired_at": null,
"reversed_at": null,
"zero_interest_installments": true,
"branch": null,
"terminal": null,
"device": null
}
Creating a source and charge
Alternatively, you can create and charge a source in a single API request.
curl https://api.omise.co/charges \
-u $OMISE_SECRET_KEY: \
-d "amount=400000" \
-d "currency=THB" \
-d "source[type]=bill_payment_tesco_lotus"
Completing the charge
At this point, you have created a new charge with its status
set to pending
.
Other possible values for charge status
are successful
, failed
, and expired
.
The following sections detail how to authorize a charge, receive its completion webhook event, and update its status.
This sequence diagram shows the entire flow.
Authorizing the charge
Present the customer with barcode generated at charge creation. To authorize the charge, the customer presents the barcode at a Lotus's payment counter.
Find the barcode (and associated information) nested within the charge object as follows:
charge:
source:
references:
barcode: Barcode image to present to the customer (SVG)
expires_at: Charge expiration date.
omise_tax_id: Omise Tax ID, present with barcode.
reference_number_1: Present with barcode.
reference_number_2: Present with barcode.
Present the barcode in accordance with the Thailand Payment Barcode Standard.
The height of the barcode must be no less than 1 centimeter.
Below the barcode, present the payment information encoded within the barcode in the following format (including the leading pipe (|
) character and the 00
):
| omise_tax_id 00 reference_number_1 reference_number_2 charge.amount
{
"expires_at": "2020-11-19T01:47:36Z",
"device_id": null,
"customer_amount": null,
"customer_currency": null,
"customer_exchange_rate": null,
"omise_tax_id": "0105556091152",
"reference_number_1": "835847145569308915",
"reference_number_2": "351521093929347035",
"barcode": "https://api.omise.co/charges/chrg_test_5lwtu0f0z15knfih9ax/documents/docu_test_5lwtu0g1oneoxyxesee/downloads/4E74776F9AC23FA6",
"payment_code": null,
"va_code": null
}
Receiving the charge completion event
The best way for you to be notified of the completion of a charge is using webhook events. Set up a location on your server to receive webhook events, and add this location as a webhook endpoint on the dashboard.
Once a charge is completed, a POST request will be sent to this endpoint with the charge response embedded.
The key
attribute for the event object contains charge.complete
and the data
attribute contains the charge object.
See Events API for event object structure.
Checking the charge status
After receiving this event, retrieve the charge using its id
and confirm that its status
matches the status
of the charge contained in the event.
If the value of status
is successful
, you got paid.
If the value of status
is failed
, check the failure_code
and failure_message
in the charge object for an explanation.
Possible failure codes are listed below.
Failure Code | Description |
---|---|
timeout |
Payer did not take action before charge expiration. |
Voids and refunds
Bill Payment charges cannot be voided or refunded through Opn Payments. Please contact Lotus's customer service.
Limits
- Minimum:
2000
(THB20.00) - Maximum:
4900000
(THB49,000.00)