PaymentResponse: methodName property

Limited availability

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

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The methodName read-only property of the PaymentResponse interface returns a string uniquely identifying the payment handler selected by the user.

This string may be either one of the standardized payment method identifiers or a URL used by the payment handler to process payments.

Value

A string uniquely identifying the payment handler being used to process the payment. This may be either a standardized identifier, or a URL used by the payment processor to handle payments. See how merchant validation works.

Examples

The following example extracts the method name from the PaymentResponse object to the promise returned from PaymentRequest.show(). In a real-world implementation this data would then be sent to a payment server.

js
payment.show().then((paymentResponse) => {
  const paymentData = {
    // payment method string
    method: paymentResponse.methodName,
    // payment details as you requested
    details: paymentResponse.details,
    // shipping address information
    address: toDict(paymentResponse.shippingAddress),
  };
  // Send information to the server
});

Specifications

Specification
Payment Request API
# dom-paymentresponse-methodname

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
methodName
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 60 (Release date: 2017-07-25)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 15 (Release date: 2017-04-05)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox 55 (Release date: 2017-08-08)
disabled
disabled From version 55 users must explicitly set the dom.payments.request.enabled preference to true. To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.
disabled From version 55 users must explicitly set the dom.payments.request.supportedRegions preference to A comma-delimited list of one or more 2-character ISO country codes indicating the countries in which to support payments (for example, US,CA).. To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.
Opera – Full support
Opera 47 (Release date: 2017-08-09)
footnote Full support
Safari – Full support
Safari 11.1 (Release date: 2018-04-12)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 53 (Release date: 2016-09-07)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 41 (Release date: 2016-10-25)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 11.3 (Release date: 2018-03-29)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 6 (Release date: 2017-08-23)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 136 (Release date: 2025-04-29)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 11.3 (Release date: 2018-03-29)
footnote Full support

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
Full support
No support
No support
User must explicitly enable this feature.