PayPal Secure Payments for Your Ionic & AngularJS App

Posted: December 18th, 2015 Author: Filed under: AngularJS, API, Plug-in, Tutorials Tags: , , ,

paypal_logoPayPal API is one of the most popular Appery.io plug-ins, and now it’s also available for Ionic & AngularJS!

Our users have frequently requested the ability to add payments to their Ionic & AngularJS mobile apps more quickly, for example, to create an online shop. Now, with the help of this plug-in, you could build an online shop (for instance) to be used by your Ionic & AngularJS app really easily.

A few notes about the security implemented in this app:

  • Authentication with PayPal occurs via a Server Code script. It takes your PayPal app credentials and sends XHR to PayPal. The token is stored to the database.
  • By using the Secure Proxy feature, the actual token value will be substituted on the server side. This way any PayPal API can be triggered.
  • Because of the server-based authentication, sensitive data such as the client secret or token value will never be shown in the app, which eliminates the possibility of theft.

Finally, a few, more general, notes:

  • The flow implemented in this plug-in is similar to PayPal’s flow.
  • We have a PayPal API plug-in tutorial here. Check it out to configure the plug-in.
  • The plug-in is configured for a test environment, so use the PayPal guide too see what you need to do when going live.