iDEAL

Introduction

iDEAL is a bank-redirect payment method that lets Dutch consumers pay directly from their bank account using their online banking credentials. Integrating iDEAL with Payrails allows you to offer a seamless checkout experience to customers in the Netherlands while routing payments via Checkout.com as a Payment Service Provider (PSP).

iDEAL uses a redirect-based payment flow. When a customer selects iDEAL at checkout, they are redirected to their bank's authentication interface to confirm the payment, then redirected back to your website or app upon completion. iDEAL is a single-use payment method where customers authenticate each payment individually.

This guide explains the process of integrating iDEAL into your app or website using Payrails.

Pre-requisites

Before you start accepting iDEAL 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 iDEAL via Checkout.com as a Payment Service Provider. If you do not have a Checkout.com integration already configured in your workspace, please follow the Checkout.com integration setup guide first.
3. Enable iDEAL as a payment method in your Checkout.com integration configuration. In the Payrails portal, navigate to Settings → Integrations, select your Checkout.com integration instance, enable the iDEAL checkbox under Payment methods, then save the account. You may need to contact CKO Support to enable iDEAL on the provider config.
4. Enable iDEAL as a payment option in your workflow.
5. Make sure you are sending the iDEAL-specific meta fields in your requests (see examples below).

Ways to integrate iDEAL

Payrails SDK

The simplest way to use iDEAL 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 iDEAL — the customer clicks iDEAL in the drop-in and is redirected to their bank automatically.

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

Server-to-server integration

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

Parse iDEAL from the 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 shown in the example below, you can see ideal returned as an option of the paymentCompositionOptions. You can use this value later to authorize payments with Payrails.

{
  "name": "lookup",
  "actionId": "0bb6413e-cabb-4074-99e6-9e815c69f25b",
  "executedAt": "2026-04-01T12:00:00.000000000Z",
  "data": {
    "paymentCompositionOptions": [
      {
        "integrationType": "api",
        "paymentMethodCode": "ideal",
        "description": "iDEAL"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Pass iDEAL payment method in request to authorize payment with Payrails

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

{
  "type": "dropIn",
  "workflowCode": "payment-acceptance",
  "merchantReference": "tp_4194b490-3408-47d6-b0cc-6603701cb614",
  "holderReference": "tp_819206f2-7cbb-4d35-869e-f257f61626dd",
  "amount": {
    "value": "1",
    "currency": "EUR"
  },
  "meta": {
    "source": "portal",
    "customer": {
      "name": "John",
      "lastName": "Doe",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "reference": "tp_819206f2-7cbb-4d35-869e-f257f61626dd"
    },
    "billingAddress": {
      "city": "Berlin",
      "country": { "code": "DE" },
      "postalCode": "10405",
      "street": "Straßburger Straße",
      "doorNumber": "1"
    },
    "order": {
      "lines": [
        {
          "id": "75abef89-5356-4818-bffa-3630d119396f",
          "quantity": 1,
          "name": "Product name",
          "unitPrice": { "value": "1", "currency": "EUR" }
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "returnInfo": {
    "success": "https://mysuccessurl.com",
    "error": "https://myerrorurl.com"
  }
}

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Note: iDEAL is a redirect-based, single-use payment method. After calling the authorize endpoint, the customer will be redirected to their bank to authenticate and confirm the payment. Once 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 their bank's interface, 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

iDEAL via Checkout.com supports the following presentment currency:

• EUR — Euro

Supported regions / countries

Customer regions

iDEAL is available to customers based in:

• Netherlands 🇳🇱

Merchant regions

Merchants based in the following regions can accept iDEAL payments via Checkout.com:

• European Economic Area 🇪🇺
• United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Supported workflows and services