Payments
Card payments
iFrames
5 min
introduction an iframe makes embedding payment functionality into websites convenient and straightforward through secure handling of payment information, iframes ensure pci compliance card details that a customer enters go directly into the iframe cross river sends merchants a token that represents those details then, merchants can use that token to request a card based transaction important in cross river's card payments api, iframes are compliant with the pci dss standard pci compliant iframes lower the cost of pci compliance by merchants that's because credentials are already saved onto a cross river server this means those credentials don’t have to be stored by cr partners how to use iframes do the configuration steps (described in generating an iframe, below) then, integrate the iframe into the look and feel of your website generating an iframe to set up an iframe and get it working on your merchant site, use the iframe generator and the generate iframe api iframe generator overview overview welcome to the iframe generator, your self service interface for creating pci compliant iframes iframe generator provides an efficient and streamlined way to embed iframes onto your merchant website with iframe generator, creating an iframe is a one time action once you have generated an iframe, you can immediately begin entering customer card information via your website of course, if you wish, you may add more iframes in the future use case (high level) do the following to create and embed an iframe onto your site create an iframe design template customize the template based on the requirements of your merchant website save the template download the iframe code embed the iframe code into your website use the iframe generator the procedure for generating an iframe contains 3 main steps add a template define a style build a url add a template launch the customer portal ui in the left side icon bar, click iframe in the iframes window, click + add template define a style assign the template a name and domain define registration and error paths you can use the credit card design , and form design sections to customize your iframe look and feel click save template when you're done build a url click copy embedded code a detailed pop up tells you how to a build the iframe url using the card payments b insert the api generated parameters into the iframe source code c paste the iframe code into your merchant site html click ok, got it now your iframe is ready to sign up cards