Add a Gateway

Before you can run transactions through Spreedly, you will need to provision a gateway in your environment. This is the step in which you specify which gateway you wish to execute transactions against, supply merchant account credentials, and configure any other gateway-specific properties.

Note: If you have multiple merchant accounts at the same gateway, repeat this step for each unique merchant account.

If you wish to transact against a third-party API endpoint, please read about payment method distribution.

Add a gateway

Using your API credentials, you can add a gateway by POSTing to the Spreedly API endpoint https://core.spreedly.com/v1/gateways.<format>. For example, to add the Spreedly test gateway to your environment, you can run the following curl command (remembering to replace the example environment key and access secret with your own):

$ curl https://core.spreedly.com/v1/gateways.json \
  -u 'C7cRfNJGODKh4Iu5Ox3PToKjniY:4UIuWybmdythfNGPqAqyQnYha6s451ri0fYAo4p3drZUi7q2Jf4b7HKg8etDtoKJ' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
        "gateway": {
          "gateway_type": "test"
        }
      }'

$ curl https://core.spreedly.com/v1/gateways.xml \
  -u 'C7cRfNJGODKh4Iu5Ox3PToKjniY:4UIuWybmdythfNGPqAqyQnYha6s451ri0fYAo4p3drZUi7q2Jf4b7HKg8etDtoKJ' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' \
  -d '<gateway>
        <gateway_type>test</gateway_type>
      </gateway>'

The response you receive will be a new gateway record identified by its token element. Store this token in your system so you can reference it in future transactions.

{
  "gateway": {
    "token": "HaQOnzrDfDHdqWmO0WAjw9zDjGE",
    "gateway_type": "test",
    "description": null,
    "merchant_profile_key": null,
    "sub_merchant_key": null,
    "payment_methods": [
      "credit_card",
      "sprel",
      "third_party_token",
      "bank_account",
      "apple_pay",
      "google_pay"
    ],
    "state": "retained",
    "created_at": "2023-06-06T17:15:23Z",
    "updated_at": "2023-06-06T17:15:23Z",
    "name": "Spreedly Test",
    "characteristics": [
      "purchase",
      "authorize",
      "capture",
      "credit",
      "general_credit",
      "void",
      "adjust",
      "verify",
      "reference_purchase",
      "purchase_via_preauthorization",
      "offsite_purchase",
      "offsite_authorize",
      "offsite_synchronous_purchase",
      "offsite_synchronous_authorize",
      "3dsecure_purchase",
      "3dsecure_authorize",
      "3dsecure_2_mpi_purchase",
      "3dsecure_2_mpi_authorize",
      "store",
      "remove",
      "network_tokenization",
      "populate_mit_fields",
      "transaction_retry",
      "reference_authorization",
      "3dsecure_2_purchase",
      "3dsecure_2_authorize",
      "stored_credentials"
    ],
    "credentials": [

    ],
    "gateway_settings": {
    },
    "gateway_specific_fields": [
      "simulate_error",
      "simulate_decline",
      "idempotency_key",
      "mit_override_demo"
    ],
    "redacted": false,
    "sandbox": false,
    "mode": "default"
  }
}
<gateway>
  <token>7dPJgE2MQZajMypeVkpfWnNMRlk</token>
  <gateway_type>test</gateway_type>
  <name>Spreedly Test</name>
  <description nil="true"></description>
  <merchant_profile_key nil="true"></merchant_profile_key>
  <sub_merchant_key nil="true"></sub_merchant_key>
  <characteristics>
    <supports_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_purchase>
    <supports_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_authorize>
    <supports_capture type="boolean">true</supports_capture>
    <supports_credit type="boolean">true</supports_credit>
    <supports_general_credit type="boolean">true</supports_general_credit>
    <supports_void type="boolean">true</supports_void>
    <supports_adjust type="boolean">true</supports_adjust>
    <supports_verify type="boolean">true</supports_verify>
    <supports_reference_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_reference_purchase>
    <supports_purchase_via_preauthorization type="boolean">true</supports_purchase_via_preauthorization>
    <supports_offsite_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_offsite_purchase>
    <supports_offsite_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_offsite_authorize>
    <supports_offsite_synchronous_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_offsite_synchronous_purchase>
    <supports_offsite_synchronous_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_offsite_synchronous_authorize>
    <supports_3dsecure_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_purchase>
    <supports_3dsecure_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_authorize>
    <supports_3dsecure_2_mpi_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_2_mpi_purchase>
    <supports_3dsecure_2_mpi_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_2_mpi_authorize>
    <supports_store type="boolean">true</supports_store>
    <supports_remove type="boolean">true</supports_remove>
    <supports_fraud_review type="boolean">false</supports_fraud_review>
    <supports_network_tokenization type="boolean">true</supports_network_tokenization>
    <supports_populate_mit_fields type="boolean">true</supports_populate_mit_fields>
    <supports_inquire_by_gateway_transaction_id type="boolean">false</supports_inquire_by_gateway_transaction_id>
    <supports_inquire_by_order_id type="boolean">false</supports_inquire_by_order_id>
    <supports_transaction_retry type="boolean">true</supports_transaction_retry>
    <supports_stored_stored_credentials type="boolean">false</supports_stored_stored_credentials>
    <supports_reference_authorization type="boolean">true</supports_reference_authorization>
    <supports_3dsecure_2_purchase type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_2_purchase>
    <supports_3dsecure_2_authorize type="boolean">true</supports_3dsecure_2_authorize>
    <supports_stored_credentials type="boolean">true</supports_stored_credentials>
  </characteristics>
  <credentials>
  </credentials>
  <gateway_settings>
  </gateway_settings>
  <gateway_specific_fields>
    <gateway_specific_field>simulate_error</gateway_specific_field>
    <gateway_specific_field>simulate_decline</gateway_specific_field>
    <gateway_specific_field>idempotency_key</gateway_specific_field>
    <gateway_specific_field>mit_override_demo</gateway_specific_field>
  </gateway_specific_fields>
  <payment_methods>
    <payment_method>credit_card</payment_method>
    <payment_method>sprel</payment_method>
    <payment_method>third_party_token</payment_method>
    <payment_method>bank_account</payment_method>
    <payment_method>apple_pay</payment_method>
    <payment_method>google_pay</payment_method>
  </payment_methods>
  <state>retained</state>
  <redacted type="boolean">false</redacted>
  <sandbox type="boolean">false</sandbox>
  <mode>default</mode>
  <created_at type="dateTime">2023-06-06T17:16:02Z</created_at>
  <updated_at type="dateTime">2023-06-06T17:16:02Z</updated_at>
</gateway>

Spreedly supports many production gateways. While this example shows a test gateway, you can provision any of the supported production gateways in the same way by specifying the correct gateway_type parameter along with any credentials required for the desired gateway. For complex integrations, such as 3DS2, Spreedly allows a gateway to be created in sandbox mode (this requires a production Spreedly account). See our testing guide for more details.

Store gateway token

When you add a gateway, the response contains a token element that represents the specific gateway (it’s like the gateway’s ID). You don’t need to create a new gateway token every time you want to run a transaction.

All future references to that gateway will use the same token, so you will need to store the gateway token for future use. Reference your saved gateway token to transact against the gateway ad infinitum. If you forget to save a gateway’s token, you can always use the API to list all your provisioned gateways.

Next

Once you’ve created a gateway and stored its token, you can start collecting payment information from your users.