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Accept an EPS payment

Learn how to accept EPS, a common payment method in Austria.

Caution

Stripe can automatically present the relevant payment methods to your customers by evaluating currency, payment method restrictions, and other parameters.

  • Follow the Accept a payment guide to build a Checkout integration that uses dynamic payment methods.
  • If you don’t want to use dynamic payment methods, follow the steps below to manually configure the payment methods in your Checkout integration.

EPS is a single use payment method where customers are required to authenticate their payment. Customers pay with EPS by redirecting from your website, authorizing the payment, then returning to your website where you get immediate notification on whether the payment succeeded or failed.

Note

Your use of EPS must be in accordance with the EPS Terms of Service.

Determine compatibility

A Checkout Session must satisfy all of the following conditions to support EPS payments:

  • Prices for all line items must be in the same currency. If you have line items in different currencies, create separate Checkout Sessions for each currency.
  • You can only use one-time line items (recurring subscription plans are not supported).

Accept a payment

Note

Build an integration to accept a payment with Checkout before using this guide.

This guides you through enabling EPS and shows the differences between accepting payments using dynamic payment methods and manually configuring payment methods.

Enable EPS as a payment method

When creating a new Checkout Session, you need to:

  1. Add eps to the list of payment_method_types
  2. Make sure all your line_items use the eur currency.
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curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/checkout/sessions \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -d "line_items[0][price_data][currency]"=eur \
  -d "line_items[0][price_data][product_data][name]"=T-shirt \
  -d "line_items[0][price_data][unit_amount]"=2000 \
  -d "line_items[0][quantity]"=1 \
  -d mode=payment \
  -d "payment_method_types[0]"=card \
  -d "payment_method_types[1]"=eps \
  --data-urlencode success_url="https://example.com/success"

Fulfill your orders

After accepting a payment, learn how to fulfill orders.

Test your integration

When testing your Checkout integration, select EPS as the payment method and click the Pay button.

Handle refunds and disputes

The refund period for EPS is up to 180 days after the original payment.

There is no dispute process—customers authenticate with their bank.

See also

Proxying: stripe.com/de-ch/docs/sources/eps ✕