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API Docs Now Available Online

If you haven’t already noticed, I’ve added a section for the Braintree API docs. These docs are definitely a work in progress, but I think they’ll answer at least 80% of the questions we get at first glance.

If you think we’re missing something or would like to see a different format, just let use know in the Braintree Forums.

You will need to login to view these docs, so signup now!

Braintree Smorgasbord

It’s been a while since we’ve posted so I thought I’d take a few moments and collect some of the recent goings-on in the Braintree Developer Community, as well as some things that are coming down the pipe. As always, my complete focus is eliminating the fog and friction of your development with the Braintree offerings.

API Revamping

I’ve spent a lot of time revamping the Braintree APIs and I’m finally satisfied with the format. The content still needs work, and this is my public acknowledgment of the fact. As a developer myself, I realize that the most import thing that I can do for you is to provide top-notch docs. There’s very little that our APIs can’t do, and I need to make that more clear.

The major change that I’ve made is taking the concept of the Direct Post and Transparent Redirect and made them into authentication methods. I think that originally, it was confusing to think of them as separate APIs, when in fact they do the exact same thing through different authentication methods, that’s it and that’s all. It’s also important to note that you can use either of these when doing payment processing or SecureVault transactions.

For the time being, we offer the following APIs:

• Payment Processing
• Secure Vault
• Query

Please note, that I’m just fiddling with the organization and the content, the functionality has remained the same.

Brik-a-Brak

Here’s just a few things that you might be interested in:

Braintree is on Twitter

You can follow us on Twitter. We’re braintreeps, and initially it’ll just parrot the headlines for blog posts, but we’ll eventually expand the content of it.

Braintree “Featured” in Advanced Rails Recipes

A recipe written by Cody Fauser, of Jaded Pixel discusses uses ActiveMerchant with Braintree in the next edition of Advanced Rails Recipes. Another great job, Cody.

Recurring Billing is Hot

There has lately been a lot of questions on Recurring Billing, it’s a really great feature that requires more explanation and focus. Look for blog posts, examples, and more spotlight.

Examples and Samples

I’m going to start posting more examples on the blog and the forums. I think for a lot of people, it’s much more helpful to see something in the flesh, as opposed to an explanation.

That’s all I can think of, for the moment, enjoy the Smorgasbord!

Braintree Articles Launches

We’ve just added a new section to the Developer’s Community, Articles. These articles and tutorials are meant to be references to help you, the developer see some common uses and practices for integrating with the Braintree APIs. They begin by describing a scenario and show you how to build the necessary query string. At the end of the article, you should be able to take that query string, change the necessary values for each parameter and use in your own application.

The first article is on Sending Money to Your Customer’s Accounts, and many more are in the works. I would love any feedback you could give on the layout, content, or quality.

If you have a suggestion for an articles, please send and email to developer@getbraintree.com.