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Shift4 Payment Platform API

Integrate quickly with the Shift4 Payment Platform API

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Shift4’s Payment Platform API offers a powerful solution for fast and easy payment processing. Whether you need to handle card-present, card-not-present, or omnichannel transactions, this API provides comprehensive support to meet your payment processing requirements.

Key Features

Omnichannel Payments: Process payments across all industries.

Simplified EMV Integration: Using our Commerce Engine or UTG-controlled device solution, we handle all of EMV payment processing complexity.

International Payment Processing

Alternative Payment Methods: Support for alternative payments like PayPal, WeChat Pay, and Alipay.

Payment Transactions

For standard payment transactions through Shift4's secured gateway, including Retail, F&B, and Lodging, the REST API is the primary method.


ECommerce

Tokenization

Shift4's i4Go secures cardholder data (CHD) in e-commerce business environments by intercepting CHD at the point of entry (so it never enters the merchant’s web server).


i4Go Technical Reference GuideExample of i4Go Implemented in an iFrame

Payment Transactions

Once the token is obtained via i4Go, refer to the RESTful API to complete a payment transaction.

Tokenization for Hotel Reservations

4Res is a cardholder data firewall that sits between the external reservation system (RES) and a hotel's property management system (PMS) and allows CHD to be tokenized before it enters the hotel's environment. See the 4Res Vendor Guide.