balanced-node-new

Balanced Node.js library

The official Node.js library for Balanced Payments. Written by uh-sem-blee, Co.

The Balanced Payments API located here: https://www.balancedpayments.com/docs/api.

Installation

The preferred way to install balanced for Node.js is to use the npm package manager for Node.js. Simply type the following into a terminal window:

npm install balanced-node-new

Testing

Set up your definitions: cp tests/definitions.sample.js tests/definitions.js

Edit the new definitions.js to contain your API secret, api_verion, and marketplace_uri (although marketplace_uri) is not used yet.

Run the tests: node tests/run

Make your own tests with simple JSON. Place them in tests/run/*.js

Basic Usage

var balanced = require('balanced-node-new');

balanced.init("API_SECRET", "MARKETPLACE_URI");

// Create a credit card
balanced.card.create({
    card_number: "5105105105105100",
    expiration_year: 2020,
    expiration_month: 12,
    security_code: "123"
}, function (err, object) {
    if (err) {
        console.error("api.Cards.create", err);
        throw err;
    }
    myCard = object;
    console.log("Created new Card:", myCard.uri);
    next("api.Cards.create");
});

Customers

Customers are the best way to manage an entity's bank accounts, cards and transactions in the Balanced API and supersede the functionality previously provided by Accounts. Customers were created to simplify merchant underwriting so that you can accept money on a vendors behalf.

balanced.customer.create({ name: "Valued Customer" }, function (err, newCustomer) {
    if (err) {
        console.error("customer.create", err);
        throw err;
    }
});

Which now allows us to do:

balanced.customer.add_bank(newCustomer.uri, {
  bank_account_uri: <bank_account_uri>
},  function(err, response){ ... })

In this API call we use the customer's URI as the request path and a JSON packet of required data.