Migration guide: PayDirect to Payments v3 API

Learn about the key differences between PayDirect and Payments v3, and create a payment token.

Introduction

The following guide is designed for migrating to Payments v3 APIs coming from a PayDirect API integration.

When using the PayDirect APIs, the user flow had to be custom-built (i.e. you had to build your own custom front-end flow, including the bank selection).
No UX/UI components were offered out of the box to build the flow.

With v3 this will still be possible: you can completely reuse your existing UX/UI by using a Direct API integration, or leverage one of TrueLayer Authorisation UI/UX components available out of the box to facilitate the creation of a bank selection screen that will support automatically every different bank flow (including redirect, embedded or decoupled flow for not only the UK market).

Create a payment token

Like with PayDirect APIs, you need to generate a Bearer access_token. This is used to get info from your merchant account and to initiate API calls. Use your TrueLayer client_id and client_secret (found in the TrueLayer Console) to request an access_token from our auth server.

The endpoint is the same: https://auth.truelayer.com/connect/token. However, you only need to use the payments scope for pay-ins (aka deposits), payouts (aka withdrawals), and refunds.

As with previous API versions, the access_token you generate lasts for 1 hour. Once it expires, you need to generate a new one.

Example

Live endpoint	Sandbox endpoint
`https://auth.truelayer.com/connect/token`	`https://auth.truelayer-sandbox.com/connect/token`

curl -X POST \
    -d grant_type=client_credentials \
    -d client_id=${client_id} \
    -d client_secret=${client_secret} \
    -d scope=payments \
    https://auth.truelayer-sandbox.com/connect/token

{
    "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjE0NTk4OUIwNTdDOUMzMzg0MDc4MDBBOEJBNkNCOUZFQjMzRTk1MTBSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6ImF0K2p3dCIsIng1dCI6IkZGbUpzRmZKd3poQWVBQ291bXk1X3JNLWxSQSJ9.eyJuYmYiOjE2NjAyNDU0NzEsImV4cCI6MTY2MDI0OTA3MSwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hdXRoLnRydWVsYXllci1zYW5kYm94LmNvbSIsImF1ZCI6InBheW1lbnRzX2FwaSIsImNsaWVudF9pZCI6InNhbmRib3gtZGFyeWx0ZXN0LTc2YjkwOCIsImp0aSI6IkE0MTNERDhFOENENTJGQUQ5MjcwRTU3QjJCN0RFNjhFIiwiaWF0IjoxNjYwMjQ1NDcxLCJzY29wZSI6WyJwYXltZW50cyJdfQ.hV5Nuqi-X9PqNDOyVftnWZzHhuBIetsjM1zeK-64ZSJ9aTqPdwhqVGiM4zTqLEx0ZfT34MbUfY98cFu00X3SbgS4fV7_Mu2jV_5ofrLdlb_KoIFo82ZG5Y4SNd19vFI5sEIkYIL3KtYnvnjUwP4UZvxgl0siTg1K0kRqws8SqfeOwStgaHsBfYcTUi_w3Z5DSZTspR_G_FixOHGjTPFY48GPACO-wyfH5JZn_uMpARRUam-sadukUpe8yjxFrg1zQ8mqXBhuuBbk8PoG4DCkk5tY-lTjFx92P1NuElMP1RzvIJ_-1qDhdtnNJROLm09_D-l4YX1VIaxL29Wv9kudqQ",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "scope": "payments",
    "token_type": "Bearer"
}

`https://auth.truelayer-sandbox.com/connect/token`

curl -X POST \
    -d grant_type=client_credentials \
    -d client_id=${client_id} \
    -d client_secret=${client_secret} \
    -d scope=payments \
    https://auth.truelayer-sandbox.com/connect/token

{
    "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjE0NTk4OUIwNTdDOUMzMzg0MDc4MDBBOEJBNkNCOUZFQjMzRTk1MTBSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6ImF0K2p3dCIsIng1dCI6IkZGbUpzRmZKd3poQWVBQ291bXk1X3JNLWxSQSJ9.eyJuYmYiOjE2NjAyNDU0NzEsImV4cCI6MTY2MDI0OTA3MSwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9hdXRoLnRydWVsYXllci1zYW5kYm94LmNvbSIsImF1ZCI6InBheW1lbnRzX2FwaSIsImNsaWVudF9pZCI6InNhbmRib3gtZGFyeWx0ZXN0LTc2YjkwOCIsImp0aSI6IkE0MTNERDhFOENENTJGQUQ5MjcwRTU3QjJCN0RFNjhFIiwiaWF0IjoxNjYwMjQ1NDcxLCJzY29wZSI6WyJwYXltZW50cyJdfQ.hV5Nuqi-X9PqNDOyVftnWZzHhuBIetsjM1zeK-64ZSJ9aTqPdwhqVGiM4zTqLEx0ZfT34MbUfY98cFu00X3SbgS4fV7_Mu2jV_5ofrLdlb_KoIFo82ZG5Y4SNd19vFI5sEIkYIL3KtYnvnjUwP4UZvxgl0siTg1K0kRqws8SqfeOwStgaHsBfYcTUi_w3Z5DSZTspR_G_FixOHGjTPFY48GPACO-wyfH5JZn_uMpARRUam-sadukUpe8yjxFrg1zQ8mqXBhuuBbk8PoG4DCkk5tY-lTjFx92P1NuElMP1RzvIJ_-1qDhdtnNJROLm09_D-l4YX1VIaxL29Wv9kudqQ",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "scope": "payments",
    "token_type": "Bearer"
}

Updated 6 months ago