Python SDK

🎯 What is Prism?

Today, integrating multiple payment processors either makes developers running in circles with AI agents to recreate integrations from specs, or developers spending months of engineering effort.

Because every payment processor has diverse APIs, error codes, authentication methods, pdf documents to read, and above all - different behaviour in the actual environment when compared to documented specs. All this rests as tribal or undocumented knowledge making it harder AI agents which are very good at implementing clearly documented specification.

Prism is a stateless, unified connector library for AI agents and Developers to connect with any payment processor

Prism offers hardened transformation through testing on payment processor environment & iterative bug fixing

Prism can be embedded in you server application with its wide range of multi-language SDKs, or run as a rRPC microservice

❌ Without Prism	✅ With Prism
🗂️ 100+ different API schemas	📋 Single unified schema
⏳ Never ending agent loops/ months of integration work	⚡ Hours to integrate, Agent driven
🔗 Brittle, provider-specific code	🔓 Portable, provider-agnostic code
🚫 Hard to switch providers	🔄 Change providers in 1 line

Installation

pip install hyperswitch_prism

Quick Start

from hyperswitch_prism import PaymentClient

payment_client = PaymentClient(
    connector='stripe',
    api_key='YOUR_API_KEY',
    environment='SANDBOX'
)

# Authorize a payment
response = await payment_client.authorize({
    "merchant_transaction_id": "txn_order_001",
    "amount": {
        "minor_amount": 1000,
        "currency": "USD"
    },
    "payment_method": {
        "card": {
            "card_number": {"value": "4242424242424242"},
            "card_exp_month": {"value": "12"},
            "card_exp_year": {"value": "2027"},
            "card_cvc": {"value": "123"},
            "card_holder_name": {"value": "John Doe"}
        }
    },
    "auth_type": "NO_THREE_DS"
})

print(response["status"])  # AUTHORIZED

Services

Service	Description
Payment Service	Process payments from authorization to settlement
Recurring Payment Service	Manage subscriptions and recurring billing
Refund Service	Retrieve and track refund statuses
Dispute Service	Handle chargebacks and disputes
Event Service	Process webhook notifications
Payment Method Service	Store and manage payment methods
Customer Service	Manage customer profiles
Merchant Authentication Service	Generate access tokens
Payment Method Authentication Service	3D Secure authentication
Payout Service	Send funds to recipients

Configuration

Option	Type	Required	Description
connector	str	Yes	Payment connector name (stripe, adyen, etc.)
api_key	str	Yes	Your API key
environment	str	Yes	SANDBOX or PRODUCTION
timeout	int	No	Request timeout in seconds (default: 30)

Error Handling

from hyperswitch_prism.exceptions import PaymentDeclined, ValidationError

try:
    response = await payment_client.authorize(request)
except PaymentDeclined as e:
    # Handle declined payment
    print(f"Payment declined: {e.message}")
except ValidationError as e:
    # Handle validation error
    print(f"Validation error: {e.errors}")
except HyperswitchError as e:
    # Handle other errors
    print(f"Error: {e.message}")

Support

For support and documentation, visit https://docs.hyperswitch.io