Flutterwave v3 React Library

Get started with integrating flutterwave with our react libraries

The React SDK helps you create seamless payment experiences in your React mobile or web app. By connecting to our modal, you can start collecting payment in no time.

Available features include:

• Collections: Card, Account, Mobile money, Bank Transfers, USSD, Barter, NQR.
• Recurring payments: Tokenization and Subscriptions.
• Split payments

Requirements

1. Flutterwave version 3 API keys
2. Node version >= 6.9.x and npm >= 3.x.x
3. React version >= 14

Installation

Install the SDK

npm

npm install flutterwave-react-v3

Initialization

Import useFlutterwave to any component in your application and pass your config

import { useFlutterwave } from 'flutterwave-react-v3';
 const config = {
    public_key: 'FLWPUBK-**************************-X',
    tx_ref: Date.now(),
    amount: 100,
    currency: 'NGN',
    payment_options: 'card,mobilemoney,ussd',
    customer: {
      email: '[e-mail]',
      phone_number: '070********',
      name: 'john doe',
    },
    customizations: {
      title: 'my Payment Title',
      description: 'Payment for items in cart',
      logo: 'https://st2.depositphotos.com/4403291/7418/v/450/depositphotos_74189661-stock-illustration-online-shop-log.jpg',
    },
  };

 useFlutterwave(config)

Usage

Add Flutterwave to your projects as a component or a react hook:

1. As a Component
2. Directly in your code
3. Making recurrent payments

Components

import React from 'react';
import { FlutterWaveButton, closePaymentModal } from 'flutterwave-react-v3';

export default function App() {
   const config = {
    public_key: 'FLWPUBK-**************************-X',
    tx_ref: Date.now(),
    amount: 100,
    currency: 'NGN',
    payment_options: 'card,mobilemoney,ussd',
    customer: {
      email: '[e-mail]',
      phone_number: '070********',
      name: 'john doe',
    },
    customizations: {
      title: 'My store',
      description: 'Payment for items in cart',
      logo: 'https://st2.depositphotos.com/4403291/7418/v/450/depositphotos_74189661-stock-illustration-online-shop-log.jpg',
    },
  };

  const fwConfig = {
    ...config,
    text: 'Pay with Flutterwave!',
    callback: (response) => {
       console.log(response);
      closePaymentModal() // this will close the modal programmatically
    },
    onClose: () => {},
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
     <h1>Hello Test user</h1>
      <FlutterWaveButton {...fwConfig} />
    </div>
  );
}

Hooks

import React from 'react';
import { useFlutterwave, closePaymentModal } from 'flutterwave-react-v3';

export default function App() {
  const config = {
    public_key: 'FLWPUBK-**************************-X',
    tx_ref: Date.now(),
    amount: 100,
    currency: 'NGN',
    payment_options: 'card,mobilemoney,ussd',
    customer: {
      email: '[e-mail]',
       phone_number: '070********',
      name: 'john doe',
    },
    customizations: {
      title: 'my Payment Title',
      description: 'Payment for items in cart',
      logo: 'https://st2.depositphotos.com/4403291/7418/v/450/depositphotos_74189661-stock-illustration-online-shop-log.jpg',
    },
  };

  const handleFlutterPayment = useFlutterwave(config);

  return (
    <div className="App">
     <h1>Hello Test user</h1>

      <button
        onClick={() => {
          handleFlutterPayment({
            callback: (response) => {
               console.log(response);
                closePaymentModal() // this will close the modal programmatically
            },
            onClose: () => {},
          });
        }}
      >
        Payment with React hooks
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Recurring Payments

Pass the payment plan ID into your payload to make recurring payments.

import React from 'react';
import { useFlutterwave, closePaymentModal } from 'flutterwave-react-v3';

export default function App() {
  const config = {
    public_key: 'FLWPUBK-**************************-X',
    tx_ref: Date.now(),
    amount: 100,
    currency: 'NGN',
     payment_options="card",
    payment_plan="3341",
    customer: {
      email: '[e-mail]',
      phone_number: '070********',
      name: 'john doe',
    },
    meta = { counsumer_id: "7898", consumer_mac: "kjs9s8ss7dd" },
    customizations: {
      title: 'my Payment Title',
      description: 'Payment for items in cart',
      logo: 'https://st2.depositphotos.com/4403291/7418/v/450/depositphotos_74189661-stock-illustration-online-shop-log.jpg',
    },
  };

  const handleFlutterPayment = useFlutterwave(config);

  return (
    <div className="App">
     <h1>Hello Test user</h1>

      <button
        onClick={() => {
          handleFlutterPayment({
            callback: (response) => {
               console.log(response);
                closePaymentModal() // this will close the modal programmatically
            },
            onClose: () => {},
          });
        }}
      >
        Payment with React hooks
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

Parameters

Read more about our parameters and how they can be used here.

Parameter	Always Required	Description
public_key	True	Your API public key.
tx_ref	True	Your transaction reference. This MUST be unique for every transaction.
amount	True	Amount to charge the customer.
currency	False	currency to charge in. Defaults to NGN.
integrity_hash	False	This is a sha256 hash of your FlutterwaveCheckout values, it is used for passing secured values to the payment gateway.
payment_options	True	This specifies the payment options to be displayed e.g card, mobilemoney, ussd and so on.
payment_plan	False	This is the payment plan ID used for Recurring billing.
redirect_url	False	URL to redirect to when a transaction is completed. This is useful for 3DSecure payments so we can redirect your customer back to a custom page you want to show them.
customer	True	This is an object that can contains your customer details: e.g customer: (email: [e-mail],phone_number: 08012345678,name: Takeshi Kovacs).
subaccounts	False	This is an array of objects containing the subaccount IDs to split the payment into. Check our Split Payment page for more info
meta	False	This is an object that helps you include additional payment information to your request e.g (‘consumer_id’: 23,‘consumer_mac’: ‘92a3-912ba-1192a’)
customizations	True	This is an object that contains title, logo, and description you want to display on the modal e.g (‘title’: ‘Pied Piper Payments’,‘description’: ‘Middleout isn’t free. Pay the price’,‘logo’: ‘https://assets.piedpiper.com/logo.png’)
callback (function)	False	This is the function that runs after payment is completed
close (function)	False	This is the function that runs after payment modal is closed

Other methods and descriptions:

Methods provided by the React SDK:

Method Name	Parameters	Returns	Description
closePaymentModal	Null	Null	This methods allows you to close the payment modal via code.

Please checkout Flutterwave Documentation for other available options you can add to the tag.

Debugging Errors

We understand that you may run into some errors while integrating our library. You can read more about our error messages here.

For authorization and validation error responses, double-check your API keys and request. If you get a server error, kindly engage the team for support.

Support

For additional assistance using this library, please create an issue on the Github repo or contact the developer experience (DX) team via email or on slack.

You can also follow us @FlutterwaveEng and let us know what you think 😊.