How to use paystackease

For installation instructions, refer to: How to Install paystackease.

Hint

Before using the PaystackEase library, you’ll need a secret key generated from your Paystack account. Set this secret key as an environment variable named PAYSTACK_SECRET_KEY.

The PaystackEase library supports both asynchronous and synchronous operations. To use them, import and instantiate the appropriate wrappers as shown below:

• Synchronous support:

from paystackease import PayStackBase

paystack_sync = PayStackBase()

• Asynchronous support:

from paystackease import AsyncPayStackBase

async with AsyncPayStackBase() as paystack_async:
    # call any of the API wrappers here

To perform a transaction synchronously, use the transaction API wrapper. The example below demonstrates the use of the initialize method in the transaction API wrapper:

create_transaction = paystack_sync.transactions.initialize(
email="johndoe@email.com",
amount=100000
)

print(f"Created Transaction: {create_transaction}")

The response from the server will be as follows:

PayStackResponse(
    status_code=200,
    status=True,
    message="Authorization URL created",
    data={
        "authorization_url": "https://checkout.paystack.com/0peioxfhpn",
        "access_code": "0peioxfhpn",
        "reference": "7PVGX8MEk85tgeEpVDtD"
    }
)

To redirect the user to Paystack checkout page to make payments, your application should call the checkout_url method from your response instance and provide a 301 status code parameter (optional).

See Example

This is a django example of how to redirect users to Paystack checkout page to proceed with payment.

session = paystack_client.transactions.initialize(
email=order.email, amount=amount, currency="NGN",
callback_url=success_url, metadata=metadata)

return redirect(session.checkout_url, code=301)

Also the webbrowser module is another approach to redirect users to Paystack checkout page. Which ever is your choice is best.

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open(session.checkout_url)