SpreedlyCore

spreedly-core-ruby is a Ruby library for accessing the Spreedly Core API. Spreedly Core is a Software-as-a-Service billing solution that serves two major functions for companies and developers.

• First, it removes your PCI Compliance requirement by pushing the card data handling and storage outside of your application. This is possible by having your customers POST their credit card info to the Spreedly Core service while embedding a transparent redirect URL back to your application (see "Submit payment form" on the quick start guide).
• Second, it removes any possibility of your gateway locking you in by owning your customer billing data (yes, this happens). By allowing you to charge any card against whatever gateways you as a company have signed up for, you retain all of your customer data and can switch between gateways as you please. Also, expanding internationally won't require an additional technical integration with yet another gateway.

Credit where credit is due: our friends over at 403 Labs carried most of the weight in cutting the initial version of this gem, and we can't thank them enough for their work.

Quickstart

Head over to the Spreedly Core Website to sign up for an account. It's free to get started and play with test gateways/transactions using our specified test card data.

RubyGems:

export SPREEDLYCORE_API_LOGIN=your_login_here
export SPREEDLYCORE_API_SECRET=your_secret_here
gem install spreedly-core-ruby
irb
require 'rubygems'
require 'spreedly-core-ruby'
SpreedlyCore.configure

The first thing we'll need to do is set up a test gateway that we can run transactions against. Then, we'll tell the gem to use the newly created gateway for all future calls.

tg = SpreedlyCore::TestGateway.get_or_create
tg.use!

Now that you have a test gateway set up, we'll need to set up your payment form to post the credit card data directly to Spreedly Core. Spreedly Core will receive your customer's credit card data, and immediately transfer them back to the location you define inside the web payments form. The user won't know that they're being taken off site to record to the card data, and you as the developer will be left with a token identifier. The token identifier is used to make your charges against, and to access the customer's non-sensitive billing information.

<form action="https://spreedlycore.com/v1/payment_methods" method="POST">
    <fieldset>
        <input name="redirect_url" type="hidden" value="http://example.com/transparent_redirect_complete" />
        <input name="api_login" type="hidden" value="Ll6fAtoVSTyVMlJEmtpoJV8Shw5" />
        <label for="credit_card_first_name">First name</label>
        <input id="credit_card_first_name" name="credit_card[first_name]" type="text" />

        <label for="credit_card_last_name">Last name</label>
        <input id="credit_card_last_name" name="credit_card[last_name]" type="text" />

        <label for="credit_card_number">Card Number</label>
        <input id="credit_card_number" name="credit_card[number]" type="text" />

        <label for="credit_card_verification_value">Security Code</label>
        <input id="credit_card_verification_value" name="credit_card[verification_value]" type="text" />

        <label for="credit_card_month">Expires on</label>
        <input id="credit_card_month" name="credit_card[month]" type="text" />
        <input id="credit_card_year" name="credit_card[year]" type="text" />

        <button type='submit'>Submit Payment</button>
    </fieldset>
</form>

Take special note of the api_login and redirect_url params hidden in the form, as Spreedly Core will use both of these fields to authenticate the developer's account and to send the customer back to the right location in your app.

A note about test card data

If you've just signed up and have not entered your billing information (or selected a Heroku paid plan), you will only be permitted to deal with test credit card data.

Once you've created your web form and submitted one of the test cards above, you should be returned to your app with a token identifier by which to identify your newly created payment method. Let's go ahead and look up that payment method by the token returned to your app, and we'll charge $5.50 to it.

payment_token = 'abc123' # extracted from the URL params
payment_method = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(payment_token)
if payment_method.valid?
  purchase_transaction = payment_method.purchase(550)
  purchase_transaction.succeeded? # true
else
  flash[:notice] = "Woops!\n" + payment_method.errors.join("\n")
end

Saving Payment Methods

Spreedly Core allows you to retain payment methods provided by your customer for future use. In general, removing the friction from your checkout process is one of the best things you can do for your application, and using Spreedly Core will allow you to avoid making your customer input their payment details for every purchase.

payment_token = 'abc123' # extracted from the URL params
payment_method = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(payment_token)
if payment_method.valid?
  puts "Retaining payment token #{payment_token}"
  retain_transaction = payment_method.retain
  retain_transaction.succeeded? # true
end

Payment methods that you no longer want to retain can be redacted from Spreedly Core. A redacted payment method has its sensitive information removed.

payment_token = 'abc123' # extracted from the URL params
payment_method = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(payment_token)
redact_transaction = payment_method.redact
redact_transaction.succeeded? # true

Usage Overview

Make a purchase against a payment method

purchase_transaction = payment_method.purchase(1245)

Make an authorize request against a payment method, then capture the payment

authorize = payment_method.authorize(100)
authorize.succeeded? # true
capture = authorize.capture(50) # Capture only half of the authorized amount
capture.succeeded? # true

authorize = payment_method.authorize(100)
authorize.succeeded? # true
authorized.capture # Capture the full amount
capture.succeeded? # true

Void a previous purchase:

purchase_transaction.void # void the purchase

Credit (refund) a previous purchase:

purchase_transaction = payment_method.purchase(100) # make a purchase
purchase_transaction.credit
purchase_transaction.succeeded? # true

Credit part of a previous purchase:

purchase_transaction = payment_method.purchase(100) # make a purchase
purchase_transaction.credit(50) # provide a partial credit
purchase_transaction.succeeded? # true

Handling Exceptions

There are 3 types of exceptions which can be raised by the library:

1. SpreedlyCore::TimeOutError is raised if communication with Spreedly Core takes longer than 10 seconds
2. SpreedlyCore::InvalidResponse is raised when the response code is unexpected (I.E. we expect a HTTP response code of 200 bunt instead got a 500) or if the response does not contain an expected attribute. For example, the response from retaining a payment method should contain an XML attribute of "transaction". If this is not found (for example a HTTP response 404 or 500 is returned), then an InvalidResponse is raised.
3. SpreedlyCore::UnprocessableRequest is raised when the response code is 422. This denotes a validation error where one or more of the data fields submitted were not valid, or the whole record was unable to be saved/updated. Inspection of the exception message will give an explanation of the issue.

Each of TimeOutError, InvalidResponse, and UnprocessableRequest subclass SpreedlyCore::Error.

For example, let's look up a payment method that does not exist:

begin
  payment_method = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find("NOT-FOUND")
rescue SpreedlyCore::InvalidResponse => e
  puts e.inspect
end

Configuring SpreedlyCore for Use in Production (Rails example)

When you're ready for primetime, you'll need to complete a couple more steps to start processing real transactions.

1. First, you'll need to get your business (or personal) payment details on file with Spreedly Core so that we can collect transaction and card retention fees. For those of you using Heroku, simply change your Spreedly Core addon to the paid tier.
2. Second, you'll need to acquire a gateway that you can plug into the back of Spreedly Core. Any of the major players will work, and you're not at risk of lock-in because Spreedly Core happily plays middle man. Please consult our list of supported gateways to see exactly what information you'll need to pass to Spreedly Core when creating your gateway profile.

For this example, I will be using an Authorize.net account that only has a login and password credential.

SpreedlyCore.configure

gateway = SpreedlyCore::Gateway.create(:login => 'my_authorize_login', :password => 'my_authorize_password', :gateway_type => 'authorize_net')
gateway.use!

puts "Authorize.net gateway token is #{gateway.token}"

For most users, you will start off using only one gateway token, and as such can configure it as an environment variable to hold your gateway token. In addition to the previous environment variables, the SpreedlyCore.configure method will also look for a SPREEDLYCORE_GATEWAY_TOKEN environment value.

# create an initializer at config/initializers/spreedly_core.rb
# values already set for ENV['SPREEDLYCORE_API_LOGIN'], ENV['SPREEDLYCORE_API_SECRET'], and ENV['SPREEDLYCORE_GATEWAY_TOKEN']
SpreedlyCore.configure

If you wish to require additional credit card fields, the initializer is the best place to set this up.

SpreedlyCore.configure
SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.additional_required_cc_fields :address1, :city, :state, :zip

Using Multiple Gateways

For those using multiple gateway tokens, there is a class variable that holds the active gateway token. Before running any sort of transaction against a payment method, you'll need to set the gateway token that you wish to charge against.

SpreedlyCore.configure

SpreedlyCore.gateway_token(paypal_gateway_token)
SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(pm_token).purchase(550)

SpreedlyCore.gateway_token(authorize_gateway_token)
SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(pm_token).purchase(2885)

SpreedlyCore.gateway_token(braintree_gateway_token)
SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.find(pm_token).credit(150)

Creating Payment Types Programatically

Please note that this practice requires you to be PCI compliant!

In special cases, you may want to create payment types programmatically and will not be using the transparent redirect functionality. This can be done using the SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.create method, and will behave as follows:

• Card validation is done in realtime, and a 422 Unprocessable will be returned if validation fails.
• Successful execution will return an AddPaymentMethodTransaction object (not a PaymentMethod object). Adding a payment method is wrapped in a transaction much like doing a purchase or authorize request is. The returned object will have the PaymentMethod object as a child.
• You still need to manually call retain on the payment method if you wish to retain the card.

The example below illustrates both a successful payment method creation, and how to handle one with errors.

SpreedlyCore.configure

pm_transaction = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.create(:credit_card => good_card_hash)
pm_token = pm_transaction.payment_method.token
puts "Payment method token is #{pm_token}"

retain_transaction = pm_transaction.payment_method.retain
retain_transaction.succeeded? # true

begin
  pm_transaction = SpreedlyCore::PaymentMethod.create(:credit_card => bad_card_hash)
rescue Exception => e
  puts "Errors when submitting the card: #{e.errors.join(",")}"
end

Contributing

1. Fork spreedly-core-ruby
2. Create a topic branch - git checkout -b my_branch
3. Make your changes on your topic branch.
4. DO NOT bump the version number, or put it in a separate commit that I can ignore.
5. Push to your branch - git push origin my_branch
6. Create a Pull Request from your branch