Create Order

To process any payment on Cashfree PG, the merchant needs to create an order in the cashfree system. This order must be created from your backend (as it uses your secret key). On successful creation of the order, you will receive a payment link which can be used to process payments from anywhere.

Curl Request

Following is a sample curl request that can be used.

curl  --request POST \
 --url https://sandbox.cashfree.com/pg/orders \
 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
 --header 'x-api-version: 2021-05-21' \
 --header 'x-client-id: <App ID>' \
 --header 'x-client-secret: <Secret Key>' \
 --data '{
  "order_id": "order_1626945143520",
  "order_amount": 10.12,
  "order_currency": "INR",
  "customer_details": {
    "customer_id": "12345",
    "customer_email": "[email protected]",
    "customer_phone": "9816512345"
  }
}'

{
  "cf_order_id": 1539553,
  "created_at": "2021-07-19T16:13:35+05:30",
  "customer_details": {
    "customer_id": "7112AAA812234",
    "customer_name": null,
    "customer_email": "[email protected]",
    "customer_phone": "9908734801"
  },
  "entity": "order",
  "order_amount": 5.01,
  "order_currency": "INR",
  "order_expiry_time": "2021-08-18T16:13:34+05:30",
  "order_id": "order_271vWwzSQOHe01ZVXpEcguVxQSRqr",
  "order_meta": {
    "return_url": "https://b8af79f41056.eu.ngrok.io?order_id={order_id}&order_token={order_token}",
    "notify_url": "https://b8af79f41056.eu.ngrok.io/webhook.php",
    "payment_methods": null
  },
  "order_note": null,
  "order_status": "PAID",
  "order_token": "BtJEHHxOB9bFpNsaHmEL",
  "payment_link": "https://payments-test.cashfree.com/order/#BtJEHHxOB9bFpNsaHmEL",
  "payments": {
    "url": "https://sandbox.cashfree.com/pg/orders/order_271vWwzSQOHe01ZVXpEcguVxQSRqr/payments"
  },
  "refunds": {
    "url": "https://sandbox.cashfree.com/pg/orders/order_271vWwzSQOHe01ZVXpEcguVxQSRqr/refunds"
  },
  "settlements": {
    "url": "https://sandbox.cashfree.com/pg/orders/order_271vWwzSQOHe01ZVXpEcguVxQSRqr/settlements"
  }
}

Name	Type	Description	Example
order_id	`string` `optional` (min 3, max 50, alphanumeric with _ and -)	Order identifier for your system.	order_8123
order_amount	`float` `required` (provide in two decimal places)	Order amount.	101.12 (INR 101.12 implies rupees 100 and 12 paisa)
order_currency	`string` `required`	Valid order currency. We use the ISO 4217 currency list.	INR
customer_details	`object` `required`	This is a custom object which contains customer_details	See below for details of this object
order_meta	`object` `optional`	This is a custom object which contains information about available payment modes for this order, webhook url and notify url.	See below for details of this object.

There are two objects in the above payload which require some more context - customer_details and order_meta

Customer Details

The customer details are required for risk checks and in providing a seamless experience to repeat customers.

Name	Type	Description
customer_id	`string` `required` (alphanumeric with - and _ allowed)	This is is the identifier for the customer in your system. (Example - customer1234)
customer_email	`string` `required` Email id of the customer	[email protected]
customer_phone	`string` `required` Phone of the customer	Please provide valid 10 digit phone numbers.

Order Meta

The meta object can be used to control the payment behaviour. You can customize the payment options available to the customer for this order and also configure the webhook endpoint.

Name	Type	Description
return_url	`string` `optional`	This is the return url for redirection based payments. When a customer makes a card payment they are redirected from your website to the bank's OTP page. From there the customer is redirected back to your The return_url must contain two placeholders {order_id} and {order_token}. When redirecting the customer back to the return url from the bank’s OTP page, Cashfree will replace these placeholders with the actual values for that order. Example - Let's say you provide a return url like https://merchant.in/pg/process_return?cf_id={order_id}&cf_token={order_token} when the customer is getting back to your page from the bank's OTP page. We will hit the following url - https://merchant.in/pg/process_return?cf_id=order_12&cf_token=yh123123 Only https url allowed in production. http is allowed only in sandbox
notify_url	`string` `optional`	The webhook url is required to get successful or failed webhooks after a payment on an order is completed. Only https url allowed in production. http is allowed only in sandbox
payment_methods	`string` `optional`	List of payment modes. Use the following values - `cc`, `dc`, `ccc`, `ppc`, `nb`, `upi`, `paypal`, `emi`, `app` . For example if you want to accept only net banking and UPI to a customer, you must pass the following value - "nb,upi"

Response

If the order creation is successful you will receive a 200 response and the order entity in response. This order entity contains relevant details for the order and the details provided in the request.

We we recommend that you store the following parameters at your end cf_order_id , order_token, and the order_status. The below table should help you understand the order response.

Parameters	Description
cf_order_id	This is the Identifier for this order in Cashfree's system.
created_at	The time when this order was created in Cashfree's system.
order_id	Order Id provided by the merchant. If merchant does not provide an order id we auto-generate one.
order_amount , order_currency	Order amount and the currency for this order.
order_expiry_time	This is the maximum time beyond which Cashfree will not accept payment for this order.
order_token	This is the order token which will returned after customer completes the payment. See next steps for a better understanding.
order_status	`ACTIVE` `PAID` `EXPIRED` The order status. An order when created is ACTIVE in Cashfree's system. It will either be paid or get expired after a certain time.
order_note	The note passed by the merchant for this order.
customer_details	These are the customer details passed by the merchant.
order_meta	Meta details passed for this order. `return_url`, `notify_url` and `payment_methods`
payment_link	This is the link which can be used by the customer to pay on this order. This link will be active as long as the order is in an `ACTIVE` state
payments	This is a URL which can be used to access all the payment attempts on this Order. See API for more details
refunds	This is a URL which can be used to access all the refunds for this Order. See API for more details.
settlements	This is a URL which can be used to access all the settlement amount and settlement related information for this Order. See API for more details.