Integrating Razorpay Payment Gateway in Your Flutter App

Hello all Flutter developers!!!

Lets explore today about payment gateways and how easily we can implement them in our flutter application. In our journey of becoming a best with flutter we should be able to be good with implemention payment gateways in our apps.

So Let’s get started.

Understanding Payment Integration

Payment integration is a crucial aspect of many mobile applications, enabling users to make transactions securely within the app. Whether we’re building an e-commerce app, a donation platform, implementing a secured payment gateway is important.

In current tech world we have many payment gateways available for us to use some of them are Stripe, Paypal, Razorpay and so on.,

So now let’s explore one of the most used platform in india — Razorpay

Introduction to Razorpay

Razorpay is one of the leading payment gateway solution that simplifies online transactions for businesses. It provides a secure, easy-to-integrate platform that supports various payment methods, including credit/debit cards, net banking, UPI, and digital wallets. With Razorpay, developers can offer a seamless payment experience to their users while ensuring robust security measures.

Implementation Guide

Let’s dive into implementation process of integrating Razorpay into our Flutter app.

Step 1: Add Dependencies

First, add the Razorpay Flutter plugin to your pubspec.yaml file:

dependencies:
  razorpay_flutter: ^1.3.6

or

flutter pub add razorpay_flutter

Then, run flutter pub get to install the dependency.

Step 2: Initialize Razorpay

In our Flutter code let initialize Razorpay with your API key:

Let’s Create the Razorpay options for checkout we need to pass amount in currency subunits. For example, for an amount of 50.00, enter 5000.

Step 3: Initiate Payment

Finally, call the _openCheckout() method to initiate the payment process:

_openCheckout();

At last dont forget replace ‘YOUR_RAZORPAY_API_KEY’ with your actual Razorpay API key.

We’ve successfully integrated Razorpay into our Flutter app.
Users can now make payments securely within your application.

Best Practices

Here are some best practices to consider when integrating Razorpay into your Flutter app:

1. Secure API Key: Always keep your API key secure and never expose it in your client-side code.

2. Error Handling: Implement error handling to provide users with clear feedback in case of payment failures.

3. Payment Confirmation: After a successful payment, confirm the transaction status from your server to ensure the payment was successful.

4. Payment Validation: Always make sure you validate the signature of the payment on server side using webhooks provided by gateway.

Conclusion

In this, we’ve covered the how to implement of payment gateway in Flutter apps using razorpay. I hope this article has helped you understand how to integrate Razorpay into your Flutter app.

Happy coding!