diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3de14bd7..b360b7b9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ releaseguide.md
 venv/
 .idea/
 .coverage
-.vagrant/
\ No newline at end of file
+.vagrant/
diff --git a/Adyen/client.py b/Adyen/client.py
index f8c5e289..0dbc955c 100644
--- a/Adyen/client.py
+++ b/Adyen/client.py
@@ -407,8 +407,13 @@ def call_checkout_api(self, request_data, endpoint, idempotency_key=None,
             errorstring = "'platform' must be the value of 'live' or 'test'"
             raise ValueError(errorstring)
 
-        if not request_data.get('merchantAccount'):
-            request_data['merchantAccount'] = self.merchant_account
+        merchant_account_not_required = [
+            'applePay/sessions'
+        ]
+
+        if request_data.get('merchantAccount') is None:
+            if endpoint not in merchant_account_not_required:
+                request_data['merchantAccount'] = self.merchant_account
 
         with_app_info = [
             "authorise",
diff --git a/Adyen/services/checkout.py b/Adyen/services/checkout.py
index ffed9497..55386f00 100644
--- a/Adyen/services/checkout.py
+++ b/Adyen/services/checkout.py
@@ -118,3 +118,8 @@ def orders(self, request, **kwargs):
     def orders_cancel(self, request, **kwargs):
         endpoint = "orders/cancel"
         return self.client.call_checkout_api(request, endpoint, **kwargs)
+
+    # Apple Pay session validation
+    def applepay_session(self, request, **kwargs):
+        endpoint = "applePay/sessions"
+        return self.client.call_checkout_api(request,endpoint,**kwargs)
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
index 7a1a7576..2ee30bfa 100644
--- a/Vagrantfile
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -1,20 +1,7 @@
-$script = <<-SCRIPT
-sudo yum install -y https://repo.ius.io/ius-release-el7.rpm
-echo "Run update"
-sudo yum update
-echo "Install python 3.6"
-sudo yum install -y python36u python36u-libs python36u-devel python36u-pip
-sudo yum install python2-pycodestyle
-SCRIPT
-
 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
-  config.vm.box = "centos/7"
+  config.vm.box = "jeffnoxon/ubuntu-20.04-arm64"
   config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/home/vagrant/adyen-python-api-library', disabled: false
   config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', disabled: true
   config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest:3001, host: 3001
-  config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
-       vb.name = "adyen-python-api-library"
-       vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--memory", "1024", "--cpus", "2"]
-   end
-  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: $script
+  config.vm.provider :parallels
 end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/CheckoutUtilityTest.py b/test/CheckoutUtilityTest.py
index 8682ca33..5182e8b2 100644
--- a/test/CheckoutUtilityTest.py
+++ b/test/CheckoutUtilityTest.py
@@ -54,3 +54,16 @@ def test_checkout_utility_api_url_custom(self):
         url = self.ady.client._determine_checkout_url("test", "originKeys")
 
         self.assertEqual(url, "https://checkout-test.adyen.com/v1/originKeys")
+
+    def test_applePay_session(self):
+        request = {
+          "displayName": "YOUR_MERCHANT_NAME",
+          "domainName": "YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME",
+          "merchantIdentifier": "YOUR_MERCHANT_ID"
+        }
+        self.ady.client = self.test.create_client_from_file(200, request, "test/mocks/"
+                                                                            "checkoututility/"
+                                                                            "applepay-sessions"
+                                                                            "-success.json")
+        result = self.ady.checkout.applepay_session(request)
+        self.assertEqual("BASE_64_ENCODED_DATA", result.message['data'])
diff --git a/test/mocks/checkoututility/applepay-sessions-success.json b/test/mocks/checkoututility/applepay-sessions-success.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3492cd4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/mocks/checkoututility/applepay-sessions-success.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "data": "BASE_64_ENCODED_DATA"
+}