Create Access Token

Overview

The create_access_token method generates a short-lived authentication token for accessing payment processor APIs.

Business Use Case: Your frontend needs to initialize a payment widget. Generate a temporary token for client-side use.

Purpose

Scenario	Benefit
Frontend SDKs	Secure client-side initialization
Delegated access	Scoped tokens for third parties

Request Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
scope	str	No	Token scope
expires_in	int	No	Token lifetime in seconds

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
access_token	str	The token string
token_type	str	Bearer
expires_in	int	Seconds until expiry
status_code	int	HTTP status code

Example

SDK Setup

from hyperswitch_prism import MerchantAuthenticationClient

auth_client = MerchantAuthenticationClient(
    connector='stripe',
    api_key='YOUR_API_KEY',
    environment='SANDBOX'
)

Request

request = {
    "scope": "payment:write",
    "expires_in": 3600
}

response = await auth_client.create_access_token(request)

Response

{
    "access_token": "sk_test_xxx",
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "status_code": 200
}

Next Steps

• create_session_token - Create session tokens