Alipay via Nuvei

Accept Alipay payments with Nuvei as the payment service provider (PSP). The customer selects Alipay, confirms the payment in Alipay, and returns to your site. Nuvei uses the alipay payment method code.

Supported workflows

Workflow	Supported
Payrails SDK	✔
Payrails API	✔
Delayed / Manual Capture	✖
Instant Capture	✔
Cancel / Void	✖
Refund / Reverse	✔
Save Instruments	✖
Merchant Initiated Transaction (MIT)	✖

Before you begin

Complete these steps before you send your first Alipay payment through Nuvei:

Set up a Nuvei integration in your workspace. Follow the Nuvei integration setup guide if you don’t have one yet.
Ask Nuvei to enable Alipay on your Nuvei merchant account.
In the Payrails Portal, go to Settings → Integrations, open your Nuvei integration, select Alipay under Payment methods, and save.
Add Alipay as a payment option in your workflow.

Request fields for Nuvei

Send these fields in the authorize request, in addition to the standard authorize fields. Required fields must be present for the payment to succeed. Payrails sends Optional fields to the PSP when you include them.

Field	Status	Description
`meta.customer.email`	Required	Sent to Nuvei as the billing email.
`meta.customer.country.code`	Required	Sent to Nuvei as the billing country, for example `CN`.
`meta.clientContext.ipAddress`	Required	The customer’s IP address, sent to Nuvei as device details.
`meta.customer.name`, `meta.customer.lastName`	Optional	Sent to Nuvei as the billing name.
`meta.customer.phone`	Optional	Sent to Nuvei as the billing phone number.
`meta.order.billingAddress`	Optional	Overrides the customer’s name, email, country and phone in the Nuvei billing address, and adds the street address.

Authorize an Alipay payment

Call authorize a payment with alipay as the paymentMethodCode. The response includes the redirect to Alipay.

Authorize request

{
  "amount": {
    "value": "200.00",
    "currency": "CNY"
  },
  "paymentComposition": [
    {
      "integrationType": "api",
      "paymentMethodCode": "alipay",
      "amount": {
        "value": "200.00",
        "currency": "CNY"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "customer": {
      "email": "li.wei@example.com",
      "name": "Wei",
      "lastName": "Li",
      "country": {
        "code": "CN"
      }
    },
    "clientContext": {
      "ipAddress": "203.0.113.10"
    }
  },
  "returnInfo": {
    "success": "https://example.com/success",
    "error": "https://example.com/error"
  }
}

After the customer confirms the payment, Alipay returns them to your success or error URL. Confirm the result through webhook notifications or the execution status before you fulfill the order.

How Nuvei handles Alipay

Alipay through Nuvei is single-use: the customer confirms every payment. Each Alipay payment is a new customer-initiated payment.
Payrails sends Alipay payments to Nuvei as sales, so Nuvei captures them immediately.

Getting Started

Payment Orchestration

Token Vault

Analytics & Reporting

Fraud Management

Chargebacks

Monitoring

Resources

Use Cases

Supported workflows

Before you begin

Request fields for Nuvei

Authorize an Alipay payment

How Nuvei handles Alipay

​Supported workflows

​Before you begin

​Request fields for Nuvei

​Authorize an Alipay payment

​How Nuvei handles Alipay

Supported workflows

Before you begin

Request fields for Nuvei

Authorize an Alipay payment

How Nuvei handles Alipay