PaymentRequestEvent: changePaymentMethod() method

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Note: This feature is only available in Service Workers.

The changePaymentMethod() method of the PaymentRequestEvent interface is used by the payment handler to get an updated total, given such payment method details as the billing address.

When this method is invoked, a PaymentMethodChangeEvent is fired.

Syntax

js
changePaymentMethod(methodName)
changePaymentMethod(methodName, methodDetails)

Parameters

methodName

The name of the payment method to be used.

methodDetails Optional

An object containing method-specific details that are being updated.

Return value

A Promise that resolves with a PaymentRequestDetailsUpdate object. This object contains the following properties:

error

A string that explains why the user-selected payment method cannot be used.

total

An updated total based on the changed payment method. The total can change, for example, because the billing address of the payment method selected by the user changes the applicable sales tax.

modifiers

An Array of PaymentDetailsModifier objects, whose properties are described in PaymentRequestEvent.modifiers.

paymentMethodErrors

An object containing validation errors for the payment method, if any.

Examples

The following shows a trivial code snippet that could be used in a service worker to send a payment method change notification to the main payment handler window. For a complete test example, see Payment handler for testing payment method change event.

js
function notifyPaymentMethodChanged(e) {
  e.changePaymentMethod("someMethod")
    .then((paymentMethodChangeResponse) => {
      paymentHandlerWindow.postMessage(paymentMethodChangeResponse);
    })
    .catch((error) => {
      sendMessage({ error: error.message });
    });
}

Specifications

Specification
Web-based Payment Handler API
# changepaymentmethod-method

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
changePaymentMethod
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 76 (Release date: 2019-07-30)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 79 (Release date: 2020-01-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – Full support
Opera 63 (Release date: 2019-08-20)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 76 (Release date: 2019-07-30)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 54 (Release date: 2019-10-18)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 12 (Release date: 2020-06-19)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also