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Step-by-Step Guide to Adding a Payment Gateway in a Flask Application

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Introduction: Integrating a payment gateway into your Flask application is an essential step when building an e-commerce or any transactional web application. It allows your users to securely make payments using various methods such as credit cards, digital wallets, or bank transfers. In this step-by-step guide, we will walk through the process of integrating a payment gateway into a Flask application. Prerequisites: Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites: 1. Basic knowledge of Python and Flask. 2. An active account with a payment gateway provider. For this guide, we will use Stripe ( www.stripe.com ), a popular and developer-friendly payment gateway provider. 3. Flask installed in your development environment. You can install Flask using pip: `pip install flask`. 4. Stripe Python library installed. Install it with `pip install stripe`. Step 1: Set up a Flask Project Let's start by creating a new Flask project and sett...