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PaymentMethod

A Schema.org Type
A payment method is a standardized procedure for transferring the monetary amount for a purchase. Payment methods are characterized by the legal and technical structures used, and by the organization or group carrying out the transaction. The following legacy values should be accepted:

  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#ByBankTransferInAdvance
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#ByInvoice
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Cash
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#CheckInAdvance
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#COD
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#DirectDebit
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#GoogleCheckout
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#PayPal
  • http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#PaySwarm
Structured values are recommended for newer payment methods.
PropertyExpected TypeDescription
Properties from PaymentMethod
paymentMethodType PaymentMethodType The type of a payment method.
Properties from Thing
additionalType Text  or
URL
An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
alternateName Text An alias for the item.
description Text  or
TextObject
A description of the item.
disambiguatingDescription Text A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
identifier PropertyValue  or
Text  or
URL
The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
image ImageObject  or
URL
An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
mainEntityOfPage CreativeWork  or
URL
Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details.
Inverse property: mainEntity
name Text The name of the item.
potentialAction Action Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
sameAs URL URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
subjectOf CreativeWork  or
Event
A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing.
Inverse property: about
url URL URL of the item.

Instances of PaymentMethod may appear as a value for the following properties
PropertyOn TypesDescription
acceptedPaymentMethod Demand  or
Offer  or
Organization
The payment method(s) that are accepted in general by an organization, or for some specific demand or offer.
appliesToPaymentMethod PaymentChargeSpecification The payment method(s) to which the payment charge specification applies.
paymentMethod Invoice  or
Order
The name of the credit card or other method of payment for the order.

More specific Types

Acknowledgements

GoodRelations Vocabulary Classes
This class is derived from the GoodRelations Vocabulary for E-Commerce, created by Martin Hepp. GoodRelations is a data model for sharing e-commerce data on the Web that can be expressed in a variety of syntaxes, including RDFa and HTML5 Microdata. More information about GoodRelations can be found at http://purl.org/goodrelations/.

Source

https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/3537


Examples

Example 1
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Example notes or example HTML without markup.
Possible Payment: Cash On Delivery, SplashPay 🌊, SEPA bank transfer and prepayment in all Splash stores 🌊.
Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "OnlineStore",
  "name": "Example Online Store",
  "acceptedPaymentMethod": [
  {
    "@type": "PaymentMethod",
    "paymentMethodType": "https://schema.org/COD",
    "name": "Cash on Delivery"
  }, {
    "@type": "PaymentService",
    "name": "SplashPay",
    "description": "Pay using the SplashPay app."
  }, {
    "@type": "PaymentMethod",
    "paymentMethodType": "https://schema.org/ByBankTransferInAdvance",
    "name": "SEPA bank transfer",
    "description": "Bank transfer within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)."
  }, {
    "@type": "PaymentService",
    "paymentMethodType": "https://schema.org/InStorePrepay",
    "provider": {
      "@type": "Organization",
      "name": "Splash Store",
      "description": "Pay your online purchases conveniently in any Splash Store."
    }
  }
  ]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.