Enabling Apple Pay in your app

For your app to be able to use Apple Pay, you must have an Apple merchant identifier and merchant certificate. Apple uses the certificate to encrypt payment information in the payment token. Your payment gateway (Stripe, Worldpay, and so on) uses the certificate to decrypt information in the payment token.

Creating your app's Apple Pay merchant identifier

You must have access to your team's Member Center portal and your payment gateway's certificate management facilities.

Create your merchant identifier in your team's Member Center page through the following steps:

1. In Member Center, click on Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles.
2. Under iOS Apps, click on Identifiers.
3. Under Identifiers, click on Merchant IDs.
4. Click on Continue (if this is your first merchant identifier) or on the plus sign (+) button in the upper-right corner of the page.
5. Enter a description for the merchant identifier in the Description field, for example MerchantApp merchant identifier.
6. Enter the identifier string in the ID field, for example merchant.com.company.merchantapp.
7. Click on Continue and then click on Register.
8. Click on Done.

Request an Apple Pay certificate from your payment gateway by performing the following:

1. In your payment gateway's certificate management page, create an Apple Pay certificate.
2. Download the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) file to your Mac.

Now, follow these steps to create your app merchant certificate in Member Center:

1. In the Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles page, under iOS Apps, under Certificates, click on All.
2. Then, select Apple Pay Certificate and click on Continue.
3. Under Which Merchant ID would you like to use?, select the appropriate merchant identifier and click on Continue.
4. Under Generate your certificate, click on Choose File.
5. Choose the CSR file you obtained from your payment gateway.
6. Next, click on Generate and then click on Download to download your app merchant certificate to your Mac.

Upload your app merchant certificate to your payment gateway via the following steps:

1. In your payment gateway's certificate management page, upload the merchant certificate you downloaded from the Member Center portal.
2. Confirm that your merchant certificate is listed in your payment gateway account.

Installing your app's Apple Pay merchant certificate on your Mac

Double-click on the merchant certificate you downloaded earlier from Member Center. Keychain Access will then open and install the certificate along with your other certificates.

Enabling Apple Pay in your app's Xcode project

To provide your app with access to Apple Pay, you need to turn on the Apple Pay capability in the Xcode project. Perform the following:

1. First, open your project in Xcode.
2. Select the target that builds the app to open the target editor.
3. Then, click on Capabilities.
4. Find the Apple Pay capability and toggle the corresponding switch to its on position.
5. In the dialog that appears, select the appropriate development team, and click on Choose.