Forage Elements

An EBT Element is a secure Forage-hosted, client-side entity that accepts and submits customer input for an EBT checkout operation.

There is a different EBT Element for each checkout operation:

• ForageCardElement: Store tokenized EBT card numbers for future use
• ForagePinElement:
  • Check the balance of an EBT account
  • Capture an EBT payment

EBT Element lifecycle

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Create Forage Instance First

Before you can create an EBT Element, you need a Forage instance.

Step 1: Create the EBT Element

const tokenizeCardElement = forage.create('tokenize_card')

Step 2: Attach the EBT Element to the DOM

tokenizeCardElement.mount('tokenize-card-container')

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Mount EBT Element In React

If you’re building in React, then mount the EBT Element in the component that renders the element’s parent container.

Step 3: Destroy the EBT Element

tokenizeCardElement.destroy()

EBT Element methods

You can call the following methods on an EBT Element:

• clear()
• destroy()
• mount()
• on()

EBT Element events

You can listen for the following events on an EBT Element:

• change
• ready