Meaning of Customer Auth Code in charge function

[LexxLuey]

I do not know what this customer auth code is? What is it?

[gray-adeyi]

https://paystack.com/docs/payments/subscriptions

[gray-adeyi]

Hi incase you're yet to solve this. for you to get the customer auth code, you'll have to create a customer and create a transaction to charge that customer. once that is done, the auth code is attached to the customer when you get the customer as a list.
the customer will look like this

{'transactions': [], 'subscriptions': [], 'authorizations': [{'authorization_code': 'AUTH_l5zfza2whi', 'bin': '408408', 'last4': '4081', 'exp_month': '12', 'exp_year': '2030', 'channel': 'card', 'card_type': 'visa ', 'bank': 'TEST BANK', 'country_code': 'NG', 'brand': 'visa', 'reusable': True, 'signature': 'SIG_JOdryeujwrsZryg0Lkrg', 'account_name': None}, {'authorization_code': 'AUTH_zl9gfz6fxs', 'bin': '408408', 'last4': '4081', 'exp_month': '12', 'exp_year': '2030', 'channel': 'card', 'card_type': 'visa ', 'bank': 'TEST BANK', 'country_code': 'NG', 'brand': 'visa', 'reusable': True, 'signature': 'SIG_JOdryeujwrsZryg0Lkrg', 'account_name': None}], 'first_name': 'Gbenga', 'last_name': 'Adeyi', 'email': 'example@gmail.com', 'phone': '', 'metadata': None, 'domain': 'test', 'customer_code': 'CUS_73cb3biedlkbe4a', 'risk_action': 'default', 'id': 47948280, 'integration': 630606, 'createdAt': '2021-06-22T16:18:20.000Z', 'updatedAt': '2022-07-25T03:12:24.000Z', 'created_at': '2021-06-22T16:18:20.000Z', 'updated_at': '2022-07-25T03:12:24.000Z', 'total_transactions': 0, 'total_transaction_value': [], 'dedicated_account': None, 'identified': False, 'identifications': None}

[gray-adeyi]

you can install pypaystack2 and try it out like this

import time
from pypaystack2.api import Customer,Transaction

KEY="<YOUR_PAYSTACK_KEY>" # Don't leave this in a file
CUSTOMER_EMAIL="johndoe@example.com"
CUSTOMER_FIRSTNAME="john"
CUSTOMER_LASTNAME="doe"

cus_wrapper = Customer(auth_key=KEY)
txn_wrapper = Transaction(auth_key=KEY)

customer = cus_wrapper.create(
        email=CUSTOMER_EMAIL,
        first_name=CUSTOMER_FIRSTNAME,
        last_name=CUSTOMER_LASTNAME
        )

tx_res = txn_wrapper.initialize(amount=10000,email=CUSTOMER_EMAIL)

print(tx_res.data["authorization_url"])
print(f"Open the URL above to authorize a charge of ₦100 for customer: {CUSTOMER_EMAIL}")
print("waiting a minute before proceeding...")
time.sleep(60)

customer = cus_wrapper.get_customer(email_or_code=CUSTOMER_EMAIL)
print(customer.data["authorizations"])

[gray-adeyi]

Hi! I just got a message from someone trying to use pypaystack2 about a bug. "error importing Optional from optparse". that's my fault. if you're experiencing the same issue i've fixed it in the version 1.0.1.

[gray-adeyi]

Just added a simple tutorial to the documentation. you can find it out here https://gray-adeyi.github.io/pypaystack2/paystack-client-turorial.html

[gray-adeyi]

Merry Christmas developers! I'm glad to announce the release of version 1.0.2 of pypaystack2. Fixed bugs and included the the new Terminal API from paystack and a new way of using the API wrappers more info in the link
https://gray-adeyi.github.io/pypaystack2/how-to-guides/