Both Tap to Pay on iPhone and the iOS card reader solution use the same Adyen POS Mobile SDK for iOS.
To enable accepting payments through the Adyen POS Mobile SDK, take the following steps:
- Add the Adyen POS Mobile SDK for iOS to the Xcode project that contains your iOS POS app.
- Add code to establish a session.
- Add code to enable transactions through the Adyen POS Mobile SDK.
Add the SDK to your project
You can add the Adyen POS Mobile SDK for iOS to your POS app using a Swift Package Manager remote package. To get access you need to have a basic authentication credential if using SDK version 3.5.0 or later, or a GitHub access token for earlier versions.
Establish a session
The Adyen POS Mobile SDK has to communicate in a secure way with the Adyen payments platform. To enable this, you must integrate a server-to-server POST /checkout/possdk/v68/sessions request to create a session. Your POS app needs to call your backend to trigger this request and get the session data.
The SDK uses the session data from the response to authenticate with our payments platform. Because the session expires after some time, the SDK checks regularly if it needs to establish a new session.
API credential
To authenticate your /checkout/possdk/v68/sessions
requests, you need an API credential. This API credential must have an API key and a client key, and the following role:
- Checkout webservice role. This role is assigned by default when the API key is created.
Make a /sessions
request
To let your backend establish a session:
-
From your backend, make a POST /checkout/possdk/v68/sessions request, specifying:
Parameter Required Description merchantAccount The unique identifier of your merchant account. setupToken The setup token provided by the Adyen POS Mobile SDK through the PaymentServiceDelegate.register(with:)
callback ofPaymentServiceDelegate
.store The unique identifier of the store that you want to process payments for. -
When you receive the response:
- Check that you get a 201 Created HTTP status code.
- Return the sdkData to your POS app.
- If you create the Terminal API request on your backend, save the installationId and use this as the
POIID
in theMessageHeader
of the payment request.
Going live
When going live, you must change the /sessions
endpoint as well as the API key that you use to authenticate /sessions
requests.
- To access the live endpoint, generate a new API key from your live Customer Area.
-
The live endpoint URL contains a prefix which is unique to your company account, for example:
https://{PREFIX}-checkout-live.adyenpayments.com/checkout/possdk/v68/sessions
Get your
{PREFIX}
from your live Customer Area under Developers > API URLs > Prefix.
Enable transactions
To enable the payments functionality of the Adyen POS Mobile SDK, add code to your iOS POS app:
-
Implement the
PaymentServiceDelegate
protocol. Below is an example of how you could do that.struct SessionsResponse: Decodable { let sdkData: String } class MyPaymentServiceDelegate: PaymentServiceDelegate { internal func register( with setupToken: String ) async throws -> String { /// Make a call to your backend to trigger a `/checkout/possdk/v68/sessions` request, specifying the `setupToken` provided by the SDK. let request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "{ADDRESS_OF_YOUR_BACKEND_API}")!) let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request) let response = try JSONDecoder().decode(SessionsResponse.self, from: data) return response.sdkData } }
The actual structure of the
SessionsResponse
depends on your backend implementation. -
Create an instance of
PaymentService
with thePaymentService(delegate:)
initializer and pass the delegate object. Make sure that you keep a strong reference to the payment service instance so that it is retained for the duration of the transaction. Also make sure yourdelegate
is strongly referenced, because thePaymentService
keeps a weak reference to thedelegate
.let paymentService = PaymentService(delegate: myPaymentServiceDelegate)
-
Make sure that the
PaymentServiceDelegate
can provide newsdkData
at any time.
If there is no session or the session has expired, the delegate is called using thePaymentServiceDelegate.register(with:)
callback. Using the providedsetupToken
you need to get thesdkData
through your backend and return it. For instructions, see Establish a session. -
Optional. Verify that the callback works, by calling the warm-up function.
The warm-up function checks for a session and any configuration changes, and prepares the proximity reader on the iPhone.
try await paymentService.warmUp()
Objective-C compatibility
If your POS app requires the Adyen POS Mobile SDK for iOS to be compatible with Objective-C, link:
- the
ADYPOSTEST
package product to your app target instead ofAdyenPOSTEST
. - the
ADYPOSLIVE
package product to your app target instead ofAdyenPOSLIVE
.It is not possible to use TEST and LIVE environments from a single app target. Each app target must connect to a specific environment.
The integration process is the same. The only difference is that the public symbols are prefixed with ADY
. For example, PaymentService
is called ADYPaymentService
.