Amazon Pay

Introduction

Amazon Pay is a widely used digital wallet payment method that offers a convenient and secure way for customers to pay for goods and services using their existing Amazon account. Integrating Amazon Pay with Payrails allows you to provide a fast, easy-to-use payment option for your customers while leveraging our platform to route the payment via Stripe as a Payment Service Provider (PSP).

Amazon Pay uses a redirect-based payment flow. When a customer selects Amazon Pay at checkout, they are redirected to Amazon to authenticate and confirm their payment, then redirected back to your website or app upon completion.

This guide will explain the process of integrating Amazon Pay into your app or website using Payrails.

Pre-requisites

Before you start accepting Amazon Pay payments with Payrails, there are a few requirements you must meet:

1. Integrate with Payrails using one of our SDKs or our API
2. Configure a new integration account for Amazon Pay via Stripe as a Payment Service Provider. If you do not have a Stripe integration already configured in your workspace, please follow the Stripe integration setup guide first.
3. Enable Amazon Pay as a payment method in your Stripe integration configuration. In the Payrails portal, navigate to Settings → Integrations, select your Stripe integration instance, and enable the Amazon Pay checkbox under Payment methods, then save the account.
4. Enable Amazon Pay as a payment option in your workflow.
5. Make sure you're sending the Amazon Pay specific meta fields (found under Merchant configurations → Meta fields on your Payrails dashboard and in the examples below) in your requests.

Ways to integrate Amazon Pay

Payrails SDK

The simplest way to use Amazon Pay with Payrails is to use our drop-in in your checkout flow. With this integration type, no additional work is required to accept payments with Amazon Pay except for handling success/failure screens for your users.

For a more flexible implementation using our SDK, you can use our (genericRedirectButton) element. See special instructions here for your client-side implementation.

Server-to-server integration

You can integrate Amazon Pay by completely managing your own client-side implementation, and using Payrails APIs with a server-to-server integration to process Amazon Pay payments. With this approach, follow the documentation below to build Amazon Pay into your applications:

Parse Amazon Pay from lookup response

With a server-to-server integration, you can call our lookup payment options endpoint to get available payment options and relevant configurations for each payment method. As the example below, you can see amazonPay returned as an option of the paymentCompositionOptions. You can use this value later to authorize payments with Payrails as you can see in the next sections.

{
  "name": "lookup",
  "actionId": "0bb6413e-cabb-4074-99e6-9e815c69f25b",
  "executedAt": "2026-03-25T12:00:00.000000000Z",
  "data": {
    "paymentCompositionOptions": [
      {
        "integrationType": "api",
        "paymentMethodCode": "amazonPay",
        "description": "Amazon Pay"
      }
    ]
  },
  "links": {
    "execution": "https://payrails-api.staging.payrails.io/merchant/workflows/payment-acceptance/executions/83c534ac-13b7-43e6-b04b-f3e8b4eb4424",
    "authorize": {
      "method": "POST",
      "href": "https://payrails-api.staging.payrails.io/merchant/workflows/payment-acceptance/executions/83c534ac-13b7-43e6-b04b-f3e8b4eb4424/authorize"
    }
  }
}

Pass Amazon Pay payment method in request to authorize payment with Payrails

You can then make a request to our authorize a payment endpoint with amazonPay as the paymentMethodCode. See an example below:

{
  "executionId": "c0fd1c51-e709-47e5-bfd1-5d1c98f7d990",
  "amount": {
    "value": "10.00",
    "currency": "USD"
  },
  "paymentComposition": [
    {
      "integrationType": "api",
      "paymentMethodCode": "amazonPay",
      "amount": {
        "value": "10.00",
        "currency": "USD"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "customer": {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "country": {
        "code": "US"
      }
    }
  },
  "returnInfo": {
    "success": "https://mysuccessurl.com",
    "error": "https://myerrorurl.com"
  }
}

Note: Amazon Pay is a redirect-based payment method. After calling the authorize endpoint, the customer will be redirected to Amazon to authenticate and confirm the payment. Once the payment is confirmed, the customer will be redirected back to the returnInfo.success URL. Make sure to provide valid returnInfo URLs in your authorization request.

Handle the redirect response

After the customer completes the payment on Amazon's side, they will be redirected back to your success or error URL. You should then verify the payment status by checking the workflow execution status via the Payrails API or by listening to webhook notifications.

Supported currencies

Amazon Pay via Stripe supports the following presentment currencies:

• USD, EUR, GBP, DKK, SEK, NOK, CHF, HUF, JPY

Supported regions / countries

Supported workflows and services