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# Payments

## The Payment Resource

A `Payment` resource is an attempt by your customer to send you money in exchange for your product. This is a reference to an amount that you are expecting to receive if a payment resource with paid status becomes a part of a payout. If the payment status is `failed`, you can determine the reason for failure.

[More Details](https://developers.paymongo.com/reference/payment-source)

## Creating a Payment

```javascript
/**
 * These are the required properties
 * @param {Object} data Data payload
 * @param {Object} data.attributes Payload attributes
 * @param {number} data.attributes.amount Amount int32
 * @param {number} data.attributes.currency Three-letter ISO currency code, in uppercase. PHP is the only supported currency as of the moment.
 * @param {Object} data.attributes.source The source object from checkout
 * @param {string} data.attributes.source.id Id of a Source resource
 * @param {string} data.attributes.source.type Type of a Source resource. Possible value is 'source'.
 */
const result = await paymongo.payments.create(data);

```

#### Payload

```javascript
{
  data: {
    attributes: {
      amount: 30000,
      currency: 'PHP',
      source: {
        id: 'abc', // Id of the Source resource.
        type: 'source', // 
      }
    }
  }
}

```

## Listing Payments

```javascript
const result = await paymongo.payments.list();
```

#### Results

```javascript
{
  data: [] // array of payments
}
```

## Retrieving a Payment

```javascript
/**
 * @param {string} id Payment id
 */
const result = await paymongo.payments.retrieve();

```


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