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Install the Bolt Tokenizer

Bolt’s tokenizer is a public package on NPM and can be used to implement custom back-office integrations, such as direct payment processing, when also paired with the authorization endpoint.

Tokenization is handled in a separate service from Bolt Checkout and is PCI compliant. See the Authorization endpoint’s request body schema for more information.

How to use the Tokenizer

Import the package:

import TkClient from @boltpay/tokenizer;

Create a new instance of the TkClient object:

const tkClient = new TkCLient(env, async (url, request) => fetchFunc(url, request));

In the initial call, the env value can be to either sandbox or production. fetchFunc is a function used to send HTTP requests (for example, you could use the javascript built-in function fetch).

Call the postToken method with the credit card information:

const cardToken = tkClient.postToken(credit_card);

Authorize using the v1/merchant/transactions/authorize endpoint found here.

Objects & Values

credit_card is the javascript object {cc: credit card number, cvv: cvv}

postToken returns the javascript object {token, expiry, last4, bin, network}

token — the token is the newly generated credit card token
expiry — the date at which the token expires
last4 — the last 4 digits of the card number
bin — the credit card bin
network — the credit card network

Example

import TkClient from @boltpay/tokenizer;

const tkClient = new TkCLient("sandbox", async (url, request) => fetch(url, request));
const cardToken = tkClient.postToken({cc: "4111111111111111", cvv: "000"});

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