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Place order with existing payment methods

Place order with existing payment methods

Last updated: 19-Mar-2026
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Overview

2Checkout supports 1-click purchases for returning customers who paid for their previous orders with:

  • Credit/Debit cards

How does this work?

  1. Identify returning customers.
  2. Retrieve the payment method token.
  3. Collect the CVV from the customer.
  4. Place a new order using a valid payment method token and CVV.
  5. 2Checkout charges returning customers using their payment-on-file information.

Requirements

  • TransientToken required for the placeOrder method. Can be retrieved from getCustomerInformation.
  • This method only woks with Credit/Debit cards.

Parameters

Parameters Type/Description
sessionID Required (string)
  Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.
Order Required (Object)
  Object designed to collect all data necessary for an order, including billing, product/subscription plan and payment details.

Response

Parameters Type/Description
Order information Object
  Object containing order information.

Retrieve customer existent payment methods

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

class Configuration
{
    public const MERCHANT_CODE = 'MERCHANT_CODE';
    public const MERCHANT_KEY = 'SECRET_KEY';
    public const URL = 'https://api.2checkout.com/rpc/6.0';
    public const ACTION = 'getCustomerInformation';
    public const CUSTOMER_REF = '1111';
    public const INCLUDE_PAYMENT_DATA = true;
    //array or JSON
    public const PAYLOAD = null;
}

class Client
{
    private const LOGIN_METHOD = 'login';
    private $calls = 1;
    private $sessionId;
    private function generateAuth(): array
    {
        $merchantCode = Configuration::MERCHANT_CODE;
        $key = Configuration::MERCHANT_KEY;
        $date = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($date) . $date;
        $hash = hash_hmac('md5', $string, $key);
        return compact('merchantCode', 'date', 'hash');
    }
    public function login(string $url)
    {
        $payload = $this->generateAuth();
        $response = $this->call($url, array_values($payload), self::LOGIN_METHOD);
        $this->sessionId = $response['result'];
    }
    public function call(
        string $url = Configuration::URL,
        $payload = Configuration::PAYLOAD,
        string $action = Configuration::ACTION
    ): ?array {
        if (empty($this->sessionId) && $action !== self::LOGIN_METHOD) {
            $this->login($url);
        }

        if(is_string($payload)) {
            $payload = json_decode($payload, true);
        }
        if (!empty($this->sessionId)) {
            $payload = [$this->sessionId, Configuration::CUSTOMER_REF, Configuration::CUSTOMER_REF, Configuration::INCLUDE_PAYMENT_DATA, $payload];
        }
        $payload = array_filter($payload);

        $request = json_encode([
            'jsonrpc' => '2.0',
            'method' => $action,
            'params' => $payload,
            'id' => $this->calls++,
        ]);

        $curl = curl_init($url);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/json', 'Accept: application/json', 'Cookie: XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM'));
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request);
        $response = curl_exec($curl);
        if(empty($response)) {
            die('Server unavailable');
        }
        echo $response . '</br>';
        return json_decode($response, true);;
    }
}
$client = new Client();
$result = $client->call();
var_dump($result);

Response

Parameters Type/Description
Customer Object

 

Place an order using existing payment data

<?php
require('PATH_TO_AUTH');
$oldOrderExistent = callRPC((Object)$jsonRpcRequest, $host, true);
$Order = new stdClass();
$Order->RefNo = NULL;
$Order->Currency = 'usd';
$Order->Country = 'US';
$Order->Language = 'en';
$Order->CustomerIP = '91.220.121.21';
$Order->ExternalReference = NULL;
$Order->Source = NULL;
$Order->Affiliate = new stdClass();
$Order->Affiliate->AffiliateCode = 'Partner123'
$Order->Affiliate->AffiliateSource = 'MobilePlatform'
$Order->CustomerReference = NULL;
$Order->Items = array();
$Order->Items[0] = new stdClass();
$Order->Items[0]->Code = 'my_subscription_1';
$Order->Items[0]->Quantity = 1;
$Order->Items[0]->PriceOptions = NULL;
$Order->Items[0]->SKU = NULL;
$Order->Items[0]->Price = NULL;
$Order->Items[0]->CrossSell = NULL;
$Order->Items[0]->Trial = false;
$Order->BillingDetails = new stdClass();
$Order->BillingDetails->Email = $oldOrderExistent->BillingDetails->Email;;
$Order->DeliveryDetails = NULL;
$Order->PaymentDetails = new stdClass ();
$Order->PaymentDetails->Type = 'EXISTING_PAYMENT_DATA';
$Order->PaymentDetails->Currency = 'usd';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod = new stdClass ();
$Order->PaymentDetails->CustomerIP = '10.10.10.10';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->TransientToken= 'oj5iyozmtkvuirzybvmwyhl3bl3nuxa44rkg5r1h';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->CCID = '123';
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->Vendor3DSReturnURL = "http://www.success.ro";
$Order->PaymentDetails->PaymentMethod->Vendor3DSCancelURL = "http://www.error.ro"; 
$Order->Promotions = NULL;
$Order->AdditionalFields = NULL;
$Order->LocalTime = NULL;
$Order->GiftDetails = NULL;
$jsonRpcRequest = array (
'method' => 'placeOrder',
'params' => array($sessionID, $Order),
'id' => $i++,
'jsonrpc' => '2.0'
);
var_dump (callRPC((Object)$jsonRpcRequest, $host, true)); 
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