# Payment Methods

The Payment Methods API allows you to tokenize and store previously used payment methods.


## Retrieve a payment method by Id

 - [GET /payment-methods/{paymentMethodId}](https://developer.ryftpay.com/documentation/api/reference/openapi/payment-methods/paymentmethodgetbyid.md): This is used to fetch a payment method by its unique Id

## Update a payment method by Id

 - [PATCH /payment-methods/{paymentMethodId}](https://developer.ryftpay.com/documentation/api/reference/openapi/payment-methods/paymentmethodupdatebyid.md): This is used to update an existing payment method

## Delete a payment method by Id

 - [DELETE /payment-methods/{paymentMethodId}](https://developer.ryftpay.com/documentation/api/reference/openapi/payment-methods/paymentmethoddeletebyid.md): This is used to delete a payment method by instead. Note that you can only delete payment-methods that aren't single-use. For example you can delete a customer's saved payment method, but you cannot delete a token generated for one-time purchases