Get a checkout

GET /api/checkouts/:id — fetch a single checkout’s current status.

GET /api/checkouts/{id}

Get a checkout

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

import requests

url = "https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "data.attributes.status": "<string>",
  "data.attributes.amount": 123,
  "data.attributes.created_at": {}
}

Fetches one checkout. Use this for reconciliation — e.g. confirming the state of an order whose callback never arrived.

Rate limited to 5 requests per minute. Use callbacks as your primary signal and this endpoint for targeted checks, not bulk polling.

Request

id · string (uuid) · required

The checkout ID returned by create checkout.

curl https://uat-secure.float.co.za/api/checkouts/9b2f61c4-6c1e-4b7a-9a1d-3f2a8c0de111 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FLOAT_CLIENT_SECRET"

Response

200

{
  "data": {
    "id": "9b2f61c4-6c1e-4b7a-9a1d-3f2a8c0de111",
    "type": "checkouts",
    "attributes": {
      "amount": 249900,
      "currency": "ZAR",
      "status": "successful",
      "created_at": "2026-07-17T10:30:00Z"
    }
  }
}

data.attributes.status · string

One of:

Value	Meaning
received	Awaiting shopper action — not paid yet
successful	Paid — safe to fulfil
cancelled	Cancelled by the shopper
invalid_payload	The checkout request was invalid

See How Float works.

data.attributes.amount · integer

Checkout amount in cents.

data.attributes.created_at · string (ISO 8601)

When the checkout was created.

Errors

HTTP	When
401	Bad Bearer token
404	No checkout with that ID belongs to your merchant
429	More than 5 requests per minute