# Payment with Token

Once a successful payment has been made using the **Payment Advice** endpoint and setting the `shouldTokenizeCard`  value to **true**, you can use the token generated for subsequent transactions.

* **Method: POST**
* **Endpoint:** [**https://api.pelpay.ng/Payment/token**](https://api.pelpay.ng/Payment/token)

<table><thead><tr><th width="232">Parameter</th><th width="111">Datatype</th><th width="103">Required</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>amount</td><td>Number</td><td>Yes</td><td>Amount to be debited from merchant.</td></tr><tr><td>currency</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The currency code eg NGN.</td></tr><tr><td>merchantRef</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The merchant ref is unique ref assigned to the merchant after registration on Pelpay</td></tr><tr><td>narration</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>Reason for the transaction.</td></tr><tr><td>callBackUrl</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>This is the merchant specified destination link after Pelpay has processed payment.</td></tr><tr><td>splitCode</td><td>String</td><td>No</td><td>This is the code generated by the merchant from Pelpay portal on the process of sharing payments to various accounts as specified by merchant.</td></tr><tr><td>shouldTokenizeCard</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>At default is false. When checked to true the system generates a code for recurrent payment.</td></tr><tr><td>customerId</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's ID.</td></tr><tr><td>customerLastName</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's last name.</td></tr><tr><td>customerFirstName</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's first name.</td></tr><tr><td>customerEmail</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's email address.</td></tr><tr><td>customerPhoneNumber</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's phone number.</td></tr><tr><td>customerAddress</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's address.</td></tr><tr><td>customerCity</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The  paying customer's city.</td></tr><tr><td>customerStateCode</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The paying customer's state code.</td></tr><tr><td>customerPostalCode</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>Paying customer's postal code.</td></tr><tr><td>customerCountryCode</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>Paying customer's country code.</td></tr><tr><td>integrationKey</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>This one the credentials provided to customer after registration</td></tr><tr><td>notificationUrl</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>This is the call back URL.</td></tr><tr><td>token</td><td>String</td><td>Yes</td><td>The generated token to be used for recurrent payments.</td></tr></tbody></table>

**Request Body:**&#x20;

```javascript
{
  "amount": 0,
  "currency": "str",
  "merchantRef": "string",
  "narration": "string",
  "callBackUrl": "string",
  "splitCode": "string",
  "shouldTokenizeCard": true,
  "customer": {
    "customerId": "string",
    "customerLastName": "string",
    "customerFirstName": "string",
    "customerEmail": "string",
    "customerPhoneNumber": "string",
    "customerAddress": "string",
    "customerCity": "string",
    "customerStateCode": "string",
    "customerPostalCode": "string",
    "customerCountryCode": "string"
  },
  "integrationKey": "string",
  "mcc": 0,
  "merchantDescriptor": "string",
  "notificationUrl": "string",
  "token": "string"
}
```


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