PaymentRequest.onmerchantvalidation

Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes. Avoid using it, and update existing code if possible; see the compatibility table at the bottom of this page to guide your decision. Be aware that this feature may cease to work at any time.

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The PaymentRequest event handler onmerchantvalidation is invoked when the merchantvalidation is fired, indicating that the payment handler (e.g., Apple Pay) requires the merchant to validate themselves.

This is usually the first event to be fired, and the user won't be able to proceed with a payment until the merchant validate themselves.

This event is not be fired by all payment handlers. In particular, it's used by Apple Pay.

Syntax

paymentRequest.onmerchantvalidation = eventHandlerFunction;

Value

An event handler function which is to be called whenever the merchantvalidation event is fired at the PaymentRequest, indicating that the payment handler requires the merchant to validate themselves as allowed to use this payment handler.

Examples

An example merchant validation handler for the PaymentRequest object request looks like this:

request.onmerchantvalidation = ev => {
  ev.complete(async () => {
    const merchantServerUrl = window.location.origin +
        '/validation?url=' + encodeURIComponent(ev.validationURL);
    // get validation data, and complete validation;
    return await fetch(merchantServerUrl).then(r => r.text());
  })
};

const response = await request.show();

For more information, see Merchant Validation in Payment processing concepts.

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
onmerchantvalidation
No
No
No
Available only in nightly builds.
No
No
11.1
No
No
No
Available only in nightly builds.
No
11.3
No

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PaymentRequest/onmerchantvalidation