# Save a customer's payment details

Convert a single-use payment token into a reusable secure token to save a customer's payment details for a future or repeat payment.

**Prerequisites:** [Authentication](/api/authentication) · [Run a sale](/guides/payments/hosted-fields/run-a-sale)

**Important:** Make sure that you have set up your Hosted Fields integration to run a sale. For more information, go to [Run a sale](/guides/payments/hosted-fields/run-a-sale).

When you use Hosted Fields to capture a customer's payment details, we return a single-use token that represents the payment details. You can use the single-use token only once, and it expires 30 minutes after we return it.

If you want to save the customer's payment details for a future payment or repeat payments, you need to convert the single-use token into a secure token. You can use the secure token more than once, and it doesn't expire.

You can use the secure token as the payment method in follow-up transactions, for example:

- **Faster checkout** - Link the secure token with the customer's profile on your merchant's website, so the customer doesn't need to reenter their payment details for a future payment.
- **Repeat payments** - Set up recurring payments so that a merchant can take payments from a customer on a regular schedule.

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## Using the secure token

After you receive the secure token that represents the customer's payment details, you can use it in follow-up requests to our API, including:

- [Create a card payment](/guides/payments/run-a-card-sale)
- [Create a bank transfer payment](/guides/payments/run-sale-using-bank-details)
- [Update a customer's payment details with Hosted Fields](/guides/payments/hosted-fields/update-payment-details)

**Note:** You can also use the secure token to set up repeat payments with our gateway, which requires more integration effort and cost. For more information, contact our Integrations Team at [integrationsupport@payroc.com](mailto:integrationsupport@payroc.com).

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## Use Hosted Fields to save a customer's payment details

To extend your integration to save a customer's payment details, go to one of the following guides:

- [**Save payment details when running a sale**](/guides/payments/hosted-fields/run-a-sale-tokenize) - Take payment from the customer and store their payment details in the same transaction.
- [**Save payment details without running a sale**](/guides/payments/hosted-fields/save-payment-details) - Store a customer's payment details without charging the customer.


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