Paysafe

A production-grade Elixir client for the Paysafe payments platform — covering the Payments API, Payment Scheduler API, Applications (onboarding) API, value-added services, and webhooks.

Features

• 🔌 Complete API coverage — Payment Handles, Payments, Settlements, Refunds, Payouts, Verifications, Customer Vault, Scheduler (Plans & Subscriptions), Applications/Onboarding, FX Rates, Customer Identity (KYC), Bank Account Validation, Network Tokenization, Account Updater.
• 🔒 Secure webhooks — HMAC-SHA256 signature verification with constant-time comparison, typed event parsing, topic-based routing.
• 🔁 Resilient by default — exponential backoff retry on transient failures, token-bucket rate limiting, configurable timeouts.
• 📊 Observable — :telemetry spans on every request ([:paysafe, :request, :start | :stop | :exception]).
• 🧱 Typed everywhere — every API response is parsed into a typed struct (Paysafe.Types.*); every error is a structured %Paysafe.Error{} with a kind, code, and retryable? flag.
• ✅ Battle-tested — config validated via NimbleOptions; full unit + HTTP integration test suite using Bypass.

Installation

Add paysafe to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:paysafe, "~> 1.0.0"}
  ]
end

Configuration

Build a config struct from your Paysafe Business Portal credentials:

config = Paysafe.Config.new!(
  username: "1001062690",
  password: System.get_env("PAYSAFE_PASSWORD"),
  environment: :test,        # :test | :production
  account_id: "1009688230"
)

Or load from application config (config/runtime.exs):

config :paysafe,
  username: System.get_env("PAYSAFE_USERNAME"),
  password: System.get_env("PAYSAFE_PASSWORD"),
  environment: :test,
  account_id: System.get_env("PAYSAFE_ACCOUNT_ID")

config = Paysafe.Config.from_env!()

Every config option:

Quick start — card payment

# 1. Create a payment handle (tokenizes the card)
{:ok, handle} = Paysafe.create_payment_handle(config, %{
  merchant_ref_num: "order-#{System.unique_integer([:positive])}",
  amount: 5000,                     # $50.00, in minor units
  currency_code: "USD",
  payment_type: "CARD",
  transaction_type: "PAYMENT",
  card: %{
    card_num: "4111111111111111",
    card_expiry: %{month: 12, year: 2030},
    cvv: "123",
    holder_name: "Jane Doe"
  },
  billing_details: %{
    street: "123 Main St",
    city: "New York",
    state: "NY",
    country: "US",
    zip: "10001"
  }
})

# 2. Check whether a redirect (3DS / APM) is required
case Paysafe.handle_action(handle) do
  {:redirect, url} ->
    # send the customer to `url` to complete authentication
    url

  :proceed ->
    # 3. Submit the actual payment
    {:ok, payment} = Paysafe.create_payment(config, %{
      merchant_ref_num: "order-001",
      amount: 5000,
      currency_code: "USD",
      settle_with_auth: true,
      payment_handle_token: handle.payment_handle_token
    })

    payment.status #=> :completed
end

Saved cards (Customer Vault) & recurring billing

# Create a customer profile
{:ok, customer} = Paysafe.create_customer(config, %{
  merchant_customer_id: "cust-001",
  first_name: "Jane",
  last_name: "Doe",
  email: "jane@example.com"
})

# Convert the single-use token from an initial payment into a multi-use token
{:ok, mut} = Paysafe.create_customer_payment_handle(config, customer.id, %{
  merchant_ref_num: "save-card-001",
  payment_handle_token_from: handle.payment_handle_token
})

# Create a billing plan
{:ok, plan} = Paysafe.create_plan(config, %{
  name: "Monthly Pro",
  amount: 1999,
  currency_code: "USD",
  interval: "MONTHLY",
  num_payments: 12
})

# Subscribe the customer using their multi-use token
{:ok, subscription} = Paysafe.create_subscription(config, %{
  plan_id: plan.id,
  merchant_customer_id: customer.merchant_customer_id,
  payment_handle_token: mut["paymentHandleToken"],
  merchant_ref_num: "sub-001"
})

Webhooks

Always verify the signature before trusting a webhook payload:

# In a Phoenix controller — make sure you capture the raw body before
# any JSON-parsing plug runs (e.g. via a custom body reader).
def webhook(conn, _params) do
  signature = conn |> get_req_header("signature") |> List.first()
  raw_body = conn.assigns.raw_body
  hmac_key = Application.fetch_env!(:my_app, :paysafe_webhook_hmac_key)

  case Paysafe.verify_webhook(raw_body, signature, hmac_key) do
    {:ok, event} ->
      handle_event(Paysafe.Webhooks.event_topic(event), event)
      send_resp(conn, 200, "ok")

    {:error, %Paysafe.Error{kind: :webhook_signature_mismatch}} ->
      send_resp(conn, 401, "invalid signature")

    {:error, _} ->
      send_resp(conn, 400, "bad request")
  end
end

defp handle_event(:payment_handle, event) do
  case Paysafe.Webhooks.payment_handle_status(event) do
    :payable -> # safe to call create_payment/2 now
    :failed -> # notify the customer
    _ -> :ok
  end
end

defp handle_event(:subscription, event), do: # ...
defp handle_event(_topic, _event), do: :ok

Error handling

Every function returns {:ok, result} | {:error, %Paysafe.Error{}}:

case Paysafe.create_payment(config, params) do
  {:ok, payment} ->
    payment

  {:error, %Paysafe.Error{code: "3022"}} ->
    # insufficient funds — ask for another payment method

  {:error, %Paysafe.Error{retryable?: true} = err} ->
    Logger.warning("Paysafe call failed, will be retried: #{err}")

  {:error, err} ->
    Logger.error("Paysafe call failed: #{err}")
end

Paysafe.Error kinds: :api_error, :http_error, :rate_limited, :timeout, :invalid_config, :invalid_params, :webhook_signature_mismatch, :decode_error.

Telemetry

:telemetry.attach(
  "paysafe-logger",
  [:paysafe, :request, :stop],
  fn _event, %{duration: duration}, %{operation: op, ok: ok?}, _config ->
    ms = System.convert_time_unit(duration, :native, :millisecond)
    Logger.info("paysafe.#{op} #{if ok?, do: "ok", else: "error"} #{ms}ms")
  end,
  nil
)

Supported payment methods

Cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover, Debit, Prepaid, Corporate) · Apple Pay · Google Pay · PayPal · Venmo · Skrill · Skrill 1-Tap · Neteller · PaysafeCard · PaysafeCash · ACH (US) · BACS (UK) · EFT (CA) · SEPA (EU) · iDEAL · EPS · BLIK · Interac e-Transfer · Mazooma · Pay by Bank (US) · VIP Preferred · Play+ · Openbucks · Multibanco · MB WAY · SafetyPay Express (Boleto, Pix, MACH, KHIPU) · PagoEfectivo · Rapid Transfer · Pay with Crypto.

Module overview

Full reference docs: https://hexdocs.pm/paysafe.

Known limitations

Two onboarding-adjacent products are intentionally not implemented: the Merchant Termination Inquiry API (MATCH/Visa screening) and the PayFac Sub-merchant API (EU/UK PayFac onboarding). Both have API reference pages that render client-side and expose no concrete endpoint path, HTTP method, or JSON example through any documentation source available at the time this library was built — every other endpoint in this library was verified against a real request/response example before being implemented, and these two could not be. Rather than guess at a shape, they were left out. If you have access to Paysafe's OpenAPI/Swagger spec for either product, contributions are very welcome.

Legacy-generation APIs (Cards API, legacy Customer Vault, legacy Direct Debit, Hosted Payments API, Web Services API, Accounts API V1, Split Payouts, Balance Transfers) are also out of scope — Paysafe is steering integrators toward the modern Payments API surface this library covers, and the legacy APIs use an entirely different request/response convention.

Account Updater has no REST surface at all (SFTP + PGP + back-office configuration only) — Paysafe.AccountUpdater exists solely as a @moduledoc pointing you to the real process.

Development

mix deps.get
mix test
mix lint        # mix format --check-formatted && mix credo --strict
mix dialyzer
mix check        # lint + dialyzer + test --cover

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

This is an independent, community-maintained client and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by Paysafe Limited.