UUID Use Case

UUID Payment ID

A payment can be attempted, retried, refunded, and disputed. A UUID payment ID is the stable thread through all of it.

Immutable refWebhook-safev4

Generated locally with the Web Crypto API — nothing leaves your browser.

What Is UUID Payment ID?

How to generate

  1. Generate a v4 UUID at charge time.
  2. Persist it as the payment record key.
  3. Echo it in every webhook payload you send/receive.

Use Cases

Code Examples

JavaScript
const id = crypto.randomUUID();
Python
import uuid
id = uuid.uuid4()

Frequently Asked Questions

Payment ID in webhooks?
Yes — include it so your endpoint can idempotently process the same event delivered twice.
One payment ID per attempt or per order?
Per attempt; a retried charge is a new attempt with a new id but the same idempotency key.

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