Subject: Apple Pay JS - "Payment Was Cancelled by the User" Issue (Braintree + Server-Side Validation)
Issue
I am implementing Apple Pay using Braintree with server-side validation. However, when initiating the payment process, I receive the following error:
[Log] Payment was cancelled by the user: (apple-pay-test-ucxp.onrender.com, line 286)
Additionally, the console logs an ApplePayCancelEvent
with:
sessionError: {code: "unknown", info: {}}
Despite successfully fetching merchant session validation data from the backend and completing merchant validation, the payment process does not proceed.
Setup Details
- Payment Processor: Braintree (Apple Pay integration)
- Backend API: Fetching merchant session validation via
createPaymentSessionGet
- Payment Processing: Using Braintree nonce tokenization
Client-Side Code (Key Sections)
session.onvalidatemerchant = async (event) => {
try {
const merchantSession = await fetch(
"https://api.paybito.com:9443/ApplePay/api/apple-pay/createPaymentSessionGet",
{
method: "GET",
headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
}
).then((res) => res.json());
session.completeMerchantValidation(merchantSession);
} catch (err) {
console.error("Merchant validation failed:", err);
session.abort();
}
};
session.onpaymentauthorized = async (event) => {
try {
const payload = await applePayInstance.tokenize({
token: event.payment.token,
});
const response = await fetch(
"https://api.paybito.com:9443/ApplePay/api/braintree/process-payment",
{
method: "POST",
headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ nonce: payload.nonce }),
}
).then((res) => res.json());
if (response.success) {
session.completePayment(ApplePaySession.STATUS_SUCCESS);
} else {
session.completePayment(ApplePaySession.STATUS_FAILURE);
}
} catch (err) {
console.error("Payment authorization failed:", err);
session.completePayment(ApplePaySession.STATUS_FAILURE);
}
};
Observations
- Merchant validation completes successfully.
- The error occurs before
onpaymentauthorized
executes. - Session error code is
unknown
, making debugging difficult.
Questions
- Has anyone encountered this issue before?
- Could this be related to how the validation session is fetched from the backend?
- Is there a way to obtain more meaningful debug information from Apple Pay?
Any insights would be greatly appreciated!