Adyen Checkout Utility Service
Adyen Checkout Utility Service
Adyen Checkout Utility API provides auxiliary operations for Checkout API — originKey generation, payment methods listing, status queries.
Required companion to Checkout API
Not a standalone product — only used during Checkout API integration
POST /v1/originKeys with your site domain to obtain originKey for the frontend Checkout SDK initialization.
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About this API
Checkout Utility is an auxiliary API for Adyen Checkout integration — not a standalone product. The most important function is originKey generation — your frontend domain must register with Adyen and obtain an originKey before the frontend Checkout SDK can load (CORS security control). Other capabilities: query payment methods by amount/currency/country (for dynamic display), session status queries. In Checkout API v71+, much of this is merged into the main API; Utility is mainly for older integrations.
What you can build
- 1Generate originKey for Checkout drop-in integration
- 2Query payment methods available for a given amount/currency
- 3Session status queries
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Required companion to Checkout API
- Clean metadata-query interface
Limitations
- Not a standalone product — only used during Checkout API integration
Example request
curl https://support.adyen.com/<endpoint>Getting started
POST /v1/originKeys with your site domain to obtain originKey for the frontend Checkout SDK initialization.
FAQ
Do new projects still need Utility API?+
Not necessarily. Checkout API v71+ includes payment methods directly in /sessions — no separate Utility call needed.
Technical details
- Auth type
- unknown
- Pricing
- unknown
- Protocols
- REST
- SDKs
- java, python, javascript, php
- Response time
- 261 ms
- Last health check
- 5/12/2026, 7:36:31 AM
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