Braintree Client SDK authorization surface

REST discovered

Details

Docs: https://developer.paypal.com/braintree/docs/guides/authorization/overview

Authentication

Braintree tokenization key for client-side payment-method tokenization api_key discovered Get key ↗

Log in to the relevant Braintree Control Panel, open the gear menu, choose API, then go to the Tokenization Keys section. If no key exists, click Generate New Tokenization Key as described in Important Gateway Credentials. Tokenization keys are environment-specific and are used by Braintree client SDKs for reduced-privilege client-side authorization.

Braintree client token JWT generated by your server for client SDK initialization jwt discovered Get key ↗

Generate a client token from your server using Braintree’s server-side API / SDK as documented in Client Token: Generate and explained in Client Token. This token is short-lived and is typically minted per session/request by your backend after it authenticates to Braintree with gateway credentials.