i trying to integrate paystack using the steps highlighted at https://github.com/yabacon/paystack-php. have been able to achieve success to this level,(step 2), where it says "When the user enters their card details, Paystack will validate and charge the card. It will do all the below:

Redirect back to a callback_url set when initializing the transaction or on your dashboard at: https://dashboard.paystack.co/#/settings/developer". but my confusion is step 3, 4, 5 i don't understand the role charge. success and verify transaction is playing and how to implement that in my code. since i already have the transaction ref in my paystack dashboard and my callback url is working from which i can compare the transaction ref before the transaction and after the transaction for a match..thanks

if you don't understand the docs.....

.......contact their technical support for clarification

..........OR get a capable hand to help you


I have gone through their doc n i find it straight forward though i have not integrated their service before

quite simple jare. they even have a javascript version too.

This post should help you

http://orago.com.ng/blog/integrating-paystack/

Cheers

After the User is done with payment process on Paystack (successful or not) the call back url is the url user will be redirect to. On this page you might want to display success or fail message depending on the status of transaction.

The charge.success is an event you might want to listen for, this is useful if you have other operations that need to be complete for a successful transaction.

For verify transaction: let's say your website give access to some paid content, after payment you will want to verify if that particular transaction is valid by comparing the payment ref on your local db with reference on Paystack, If the transaction is successful, if the right amount was paid etc

infoeag:
After the User is done with payment process on Paystack (successful or not) the call back url is the url user will be redirect to. On this page you might want to display success or fail message depending on the status of transaction.

The charge.success is an event you might want to listen for, this is useful if you have other operations that need to be complete for a successful transaction.

For verify transaction: let's say your website give access to some paid content, after payment you will want to verify if that particular transaction is valid by comparing the payment ref on your local db with reference on Paystack, If the transaction is successful, if the right amount was paid etc

onpoint

infoeag:
After the User is done with payment process on Paystack (successful or not) the call back url is the url user will be redirect to. On this page you might want to display success or fail message depending on the status of transaction.

The charge.success is an event you might want to listen for, this is useful if you have other operations that need to be complete for a successful transaction.

For verify transaction: let's say your website give access to some paid content, after payment you will want to verify if that particular transaction is valid by comparing the payment ref on your local db with reference on Paystack, If the transaction is successful, if the right amount was paid etc

i appreciate your response now i see the difference please kindly help answer this. my own method of verify was like this
step 1 generate a reference and store it in a session
step 2 initialize the payment
step 3 compare the reference number in the call back url with that of the session
but have learnt to do it in the paystack way which is
step 1: generate a reference number
step 2 intitalize the payment
step 3 use paystack api to verify the transaction by passing the returned reference as a value
i don't really see any difference because both method can be affected by network error, browser crash, unexpected shutdown and the rest. thank you bro although i have finally learnt to do it the paystack way.
secondly i have not really understood the work of charge.success since verification is working well

You are doing it the right way, except personally I will make use of database

infoeag:
You are doing it the right way, except personally I will make use of database

thank you. i really appreciate

I posted a detailed explanation here about the paystack integration here on May 14 but my post was deleted and blocked from replying to the thread.

efelico:

thank you. i really appreciate

You are welcome