Retrieve Session
Request to obtain the request fields contained in the session
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This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:
- Certificate authentication.
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To authenticate to the API two additional NVP parameters must be supplied in the request.
Provide 'merchant.
<your gateway merchant ID>' in the apiUsername field and your API password in the apiPassword field.
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String
= RETRIEVE_SESSION
FIXED
Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.
String
OPTIONAL
A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.
The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric + additional characters
REQUIRED
The unique identifier issued to you by your payment provider.
This identifier can be up to 12 characters in length.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'
Container for fields that control the response returned for the request.
String
OPTIONAL
Indicates how sensitive data is returned in the response.
Data can consist of any characters
ASCII Text
REQUIRED
The identifier of the payment session
Data consists of ASCII characters
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Information on 3DSecure fields.
Digits
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the security level of the transaction.
This is the value returned in the Electronic Commerce Indicator (ECI) field of the Payer Authentication Response (PARes) message from the card Issuer's Access Control Server (ACS). For example, 0,1, or 2. Refer to the relevant documentation for Mastercard SecureCode™, Verified by Visa™, JCB J/Secure™, American Express SafeKey™, or Diners Club ProtectBuy™.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.
A collection of parameters required to build the HTML form that is redirected to the ACS.
There are two options to generate the redirect page used to transfer the cardholder to the card Issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) for authentication:
1. Simple: submit the form generated by the gateway. In this case, only the htmlBodyContent parameter is required.
2. Customized: for those merchants who wish to customise the submission. In this case, the acsURL and paReq parameters will be required to formulate the submission.
Note: This field will only be returned in the event of a successful directory server lookup.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the option (Simple or Customized) used to generate the page that redirects the cardholder to the card Issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) for authentication.
The response to the Check 3DS Enrollment operation will include the information required for the selected option. By default, the Simple option is used.
An enumeration to allow a user to specify if they wish to adopt a customized solution or a simple solution.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
CUSTOMIZED
A strategy to indicate that the user wishes to customize the response
SIMPLE
A simple interaction model where the response is complete and no user intervention is required.
Url
CONDITIONAL
The URL to which you want to redirect the payer after completing the payer authentication process.
Typically, this will be the merchant's website URL, which must be URL encoded for special characters such spaces, hyphens, etc.
Ensure that the URL begins with 'https' and is longer than 11 characters.
The details required by the system to generate the HTML page as specified in the Simple option.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The encoding required for the HTML returned in the response, through htmlBodyContent parameter.
The available HTML Encoding options that a client may request.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ASCII
ISO_8859_1
Latin1
UTF_8
Alphanumeric + additional characters
CONDITIONAL
Background color of the page, encoded in HEX, rendered in the cardholder's browser while the browser is waiting for the authentication to commence.
By default, the color is set to #FFFFFF.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '#'
String
CONDITIONAL
Text on the button that the cardholder can use to redirect the browser to the card Issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) if JavaScript is disabled for their browser.
By default, the button text is set to "Click here to continue".
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Title of the page rendered in the cardholder's browser while the browser is waiting for the authentication to commence.
By default, the title is set to "Process secure Payment".
Data can consist of any characters
Base64
CONDITIONAL
Used to verify that the 3D-Secure authentication occurred and the 3-D Secure data provided is valid.
The authentication token is generated and returned by the card issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) or the scheme's Attempts Server. It is a Base64 encoded value and must be submitted unaltered on a transaction. This field is referred to as Accountholder Authentication Value (AAV) for Mastercard SecureCode™ and JCB J/Secure™, Cardholder Authentication Verification Value (CAVV) for Verified by Visa™, American Express Verification Value (AEVV) for American Express SafeKey™, or Cardmember Authentication Verification Value (CAVV) for Diners Club ProtectBuy™.
Data is Base64 encoded
String
CONDITIONAL
An optional field that the merchant may supply in the Transaction Request as a description of the transaction.
If supported by the ACS, this description will be displayed on the authentication page where the cardholder types in their secret password.
Data can consist of any characters
Alpha
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the result of payer authentication with the issuer.
This is the value returned in the transaction status field of the Payer Authentication Response (PARes) message from the card Issuer's Access Control Server (ACS). For example, Y, N, A, or U. Refer to the relevant documentation for Mastercard SecureCode™, Verified by Visa™, JCB J/Secure™, American Express SafeKey™, or Diners Club ProtectBuy™.
Data may consist of the characters a-z, A-Z
Alpha
CONDITIONAL
Indicates whether or not payer authentication is available for the card number you provided.
This is the value returned in the 'enrolled' field of the Verify Enrollment Response (VERes) message from the card scheme's Directory Server. For example, Y, N, or U. Refer to the relevant documentation for Mastercard SecureCode™, Verified by Visa™, JCB J/Secure™, American Express SafeKey™, or Diners Club ProtectBuy™.
Data may consist of the characters a-z, A-Z
Base64
CONDITIONAL
A unique transaction identifier generated by the Payment Gateway on behalf of the merchant to identify the 3DS transaction.
This field is mandatory for Verified By Visa transactions if authentication was available. The XID should be used in operation requests unaltered.
Data is Base64 encoded
ASCII Text
CONDITIONAL
A unique identifier supplied by the merchant for the authentication.
It is first defined in the check3DSEnrollment operation, and then included in subsequent operations.It is not used when the authentication is performed externally.
Data consists of ASCII characters
A series of related orders that execute one commercial agreement.
For example, linking the orders for a series of recurring payments (a mobile phone subscription), split tenders (one payment using two cards), or when the merchant offers to take payments by a series of installments (hire purchase).
You must provide this data for some types of payments (such as recurring), but you can provide it for any cases where you want to link orders together.
Date
CONDITIONAL
Date at which your agreement with the payer to process payments expires.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
String
ALWAYS PROVIDED
Your identifier for the agreement you have with the payer to process payments.
When you collect cards from your payers and store them for later use, you must provide an agreement ID when you use the stored values for:
- Recurring payments: you have an agreement with the payer that authorizes you to automatically debit their account at agreed intervals for fixed or variable amounts. For example, gym membership, phone bills, or magazine subscriptions.
- Installment payments: you have an agreement with the payer that authorizes you to process multiple payments over an agreed period of time for a single purchase. For example, the payer purchases an item for $1000 and pays for it in four monthly installments.
- Unscheduled: you have an agreement with the payer that authorizes you to process future payments when required. For example, the payer authorizes you to process an account top-up transaction for a transit card when the account balance drops below a certain threshold.
Data can consist of any characters
Information about agreements for recurring payments.
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The minimum number of days between payments agreed with the payer under your agreement with them.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Airline industry specific data.
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The record locator used to access a specific Passenger Name Record (PNR).
PNR is a record in the database of a booking system that contains the itinerary for a passenger, or a group of passengers traveling together.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The type of charge associated with the transaction.
Document Type Code
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ADDITIONAL_COLLECTION
Additional Collection
AGENCY_EXCHANGE_ORDER
Agency Exchange Order
AGENCY_GROUP_TICKET
Agency Group Ticket
AGENCY_MISCELLANEOUS_CHARGE_ORDER
Agency Misc. Charge Order (MCO)
AGENCY_PASSENGER_TICKET
Agency Passenger Ticket
AGENCY_TOUR_ORDER_OR_VOUCHER
Agency Tour Order/Voucher
AIR_FREIGHT
SPD/Air Freight
ANIMAL_TRANSPORTATION_CHARGE
Animal Transportation Charge
CATALOGUE_MERCHANDISE_ORDERED
Catalogue Merchandise Ordered
CLUB_MEMBERSHIP_FEE
Club Membership Fee
COUPON_BOOK
Coupon Book
CREDIT_CLASS_SERVICE_ADJUSTMENT
Credit Class of Service Adjustment
CREDIT_DENIED_BOARDING
Credit Denied Boarding
CREDIT_EXCHANGE_REFUND
Credit Exchange Refund
CREDIT_LOST_TICKET_REFUND
Credit Lost Ticket Refund
CREDIT_MISCELLANEOUS_REFUND
Credit Misc. Refund
CREDIT_MULTIPLE_UNUSED_TICKETS
Credit Multiple Unused Tickets
CREDIT_OVERCHARGE_ADJUSTMENT
Credit Overcharge Adjustment
CREDIT_UNUSED_TRANSPORTATION
Credit Unused Transportation
DEBT_ADJUSTMENT_DUPLICATE_REFUND_OR_USE
Debt Adjustment Duplicate Refund/Use
DUTY_FREE_SALE
Duty Free Sale
EXCESS_BAGGAGE
Excess Baggage
EXCHANGE_ADJUSTMENT
Exchange Adjustment
EXCHANGE_ORDER
Exchange Order
FIREARMS_CASE
Firearms Case
FREQUENT_FLYER_FEE_OR_PURCHASE
Frequent Flyer Fee/Purchase
FREQUENT_FLYER_FULFILLMENT
Frequent Flyer Fulfillment
FREQUENT_FLYER_OVERNIGHT_DELIVERY_CHARGE
Frequent Flyer Overnight Delivery Charge
GROUP_TICKET
Group Ticket
IN_FLIGHT_ADJUSTMENT
In-flight Adjustment
IN_FLIGHT_CHARGES
In-flight Charges
IN_FLIGHT_DUTY_FREE_PURCHASE
In-flight Duty Free Purchase
IN_FLIGHT_MERCHANDISE_ORDERED
In-flight Merchandise Ordered
IN_FLIGHT_PHONE_CHARGES
In-flight Phone Charges
KENNEL_CHARGE
Kennel Charge
LOST_TICKET_APPLICATION
Lost Ticket Application
MISCELLANEOUS_CHARGE_ORDER_OR_PREPAID_TICKET_ADVICE
Misc. Charge Order (MCO) / Prepaid Ticket Auth.
MISCELLANEOUS_TAXES_FEES
Miscellaneous Tax(es) Fee(s)
PASSENGER_TICKET
Passenger Ticket
SELF_SERVICE_TICKETS
Self-Service Ticket(s)
SENIOR_CITIZEN_DISCOUNT_BOOKLETS
Senior Citizen Discount Booklets
SMALL_PACKAGE_DELIVERY
Small Package Delivery
SPECIAL_SERVICE_TICKET
Special Service Ticket
SUPPORTED_REFUND
Supported Refund
TICKET_BY_MAIL
Ticket by Mail
TOUR_DEPOSIT
Tour Deposit
TOUR_ORDER_VOUCHER
Tour Order Voucher
UNDERCHARGE_ADJUSTMENT
Undercharge Adjustment
UNSUPPORTED_REFUND
Unsupported Refund
UPGRADE_CHARGE
Upgrade Charge
VENDOR_REFUND_CREDIT
Vendor Refund Credit
VENDOR_SALE
Vendor Sale
Itinerary details
Travel leg details.
Regex
CONDITIONAL
The 2-character IATA airline code or 3 digit accounting code or both of the airline carrier for the trip leg.
Data must match regex
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The ticket containing the coupon for this leg for an itinerary with more than four trip legs.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The coupon number on the ticket for the trip leg.
Each trip leg requires a separate coupon. The coupon within the series is identified by the coupon number.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 character IATA airport code of the departure airport for the trip leg.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Date
CONDITIONAL
Date of departure for the trip leg.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Tax payable on departure for the trip leg.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Time
CONDITIONAL
Departure time in local time for the departure airport for this trip leg.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended time formats, hh:mm[:ss]Z or hh:mm[:ss](+/-)hh[:mm]
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 character IATA airport code for the destination airport for the trip leg.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Date
CONDITIONAL
Arrival date in local time for the destination airport for this trip leg.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Time
CONDITIONAL
Arrival time in local time for the destination airport for this trip leg.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended time formats, hh:mm[:ss]Z or hh:mm[:ss](+/-)hh[:mm]
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Restrictions (e.g. non-refundable) or endorsements applicable to the trip leg.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
New ticket number issued when a ticket is exchanged for the trip leg.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total fare payable for the trip leg.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Code defining the rules forming the basis of the fare (type of fare, class entitlement, etc.)
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total fees payable for the trip leg.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The flight number for the trip leg.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if a stopover is permitted for the trip leg.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total taxes payable for the trip leg.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The industry code indicating the class of service (e.g. Business, Coach) for the leg.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Digits
CONDITIONAL
Number of passengers associated with this booking.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 character ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code of the country of origin for the itinerary.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Passenger details
String
CONDITIONAL
First name of the passenger to whom the ticket is being issued.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Frequent Flyer or Loyalty Program number for this passenger.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Last name of the passenger to whom the ticket is being issued.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Middle name of the passenger to whom the ticket is being issued.
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Passenger specific information recorded on the ticket.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
String
CONDITIONAL
Title of the passenger to whom the ticket is being issued.
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Plan number supplied by the airline for this booking.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Ticket details
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if a conjunction ticket with additional coupons was issued.
Conjunction ticket refers to two or more tickets concurrently issued to a passenger and which together constitute a single contract of carriage.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if an electronic ticket was issued.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The original ticket number when this is a transaction for an exchanged ticket.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Ticket issue information.
String
CONDITIONAL
The address where the ticket was issued.
Data can consist of any characters
Regex
CONDITIONAL
The 2-character IATA airline code or 3 digit accounting code or both of the airline carrier issuing the ticket.
Data must match regex
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Name of airline carrier issuing the ticket.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The city/town where the ticket was issued.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 character ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code of the country where the ticket was issued.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date the ticket was issued.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Industry code of the travel agent issuing the ticket.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Name of the travel agent issuing the ticket.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if the issued ticket is refundable.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Breakdown of the ticket taxes, airport taxes, charges and fees for an airline ticket purchase.
The total of the amounts in this group should equal the sum of the airline.ticket.totalFees and airline.ticket.totalTaxes fields.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The tax, charge or fee amount payable.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The tax, charge or fee type code as assigned by IATA.
For example, the IATA tax/ charge/ fee type for Passenger Movement Charge (PMC) in Australia is TT1.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
The airline ticket number associated with the transaction.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total fare for all trip legs on the ticket.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total fee for all trip legs on the ticket.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
Total taxes for all trip legs on the ticket.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The type of transaction performed against this airline booking.
Transaction Type
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
EXCHANGE_TICKET
Exchange Ticket
MISCELLANEOUS_CHARGE
Miscellaneous Charge
REFUND
Refund
REVERSAL
Reversal
TICKET_PURCHASE
Ticket Purchase
TOUR_ORDER
Tour Order
Information about how the payer's identity is verified.
For example, using 3-D Secure authentication.
This parameter group include payer authentication options available to you, parameters you need to perform payer authentication for an available method, and the results of payer authentication.
Information about payer authentication using 3-D Secure authentication version 2.
String
CONDITIONAL
A unique transaction identifier assigned by the scheme Directory Server to identify the 3DS transaction.
The DS transaction id should be used in subsequent operation requests unaltered.
Data can consist of any characters
Information provided by the 3-D Secure Software Development Kit (SDK) that is used by an app on the payer's device to enable 3-D Secure authentication of the payer to be performed in-app.
You must populate the fields in this parameter group when you authenticate the payer in-app using 3-D Secure authentication version 2.
String
CONDITIONAL
A unique identifier for the app on the payer's device.
The 3-D Secure SDK generates this identifier each time the app is installed or updated.
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkAppID
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Information about the payer's device collected and encrypted by the 3-D Secure SDK.
The data is a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) object in JSON format. When using the REST/JSON gateway API, express this as a JSON string (i.e. the embedded quotes will be escaped).
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkEncData
Data can consist of any characters
JSON Text
CONDITIONAL
A public key generated by the 3-D Secure SDK.
This key is used to establish a secure session between the 3DS SDK and the issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) when the payer is required to be presented with an authentication challenge.
The key is a JSON Web Key (JWK) object in JSON format. When using the REST/JSON gateway API, express this as a JSON string (i.e the embedded quotes will be escaped).
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkEphemPubKey
Data is valid Json Format
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The User Interface (UI) formats that the payer's device supports.
These are the formats that can be used to render the screens presented to the payer during an authentication challenge.
You only need to provide this value if you only support one of these formats.
This field corresponds to EMVCo data element sdkInterface in the field deviceRenderOptions.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
HTML
The device supports HTML format.
NATIVE
The device supports the UI format native to the payer's device.
String
CONDITIONAL
An identifier of the vendor and version of the 3-D Secure SDK assigned by EMVCo.
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkReferenceNumber
Data can consist of any characters
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The duration (in seconds) available to the payer to authenticate.
Will default to 900 if not provided. Note: The value will be rounded up to the nearest minute.
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkMaxTimeout
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
String
CONDITIONAL
A unique identifier assigned by the 3-D Secure SDK for the transaction.
This field corresponds to EMVCo field sdkTransID
Data can consist of any characters
Comma separated enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the UI types which the SDK supports for displaying authentication challenges within the app.
A comma separated list of the payer authentication methods that you will accept for this payment.
You only need to provide this value if all of these values are not supported.
Note: OTHER_HTML is only supported when authentication.3ds2.sdk.interface allows a HTML UI format.
This field corresponds to EMVCo data element sdkUiType in the field deviceRenderOptions.
Value must be one or more comma separated members of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
TEXT
The payer is asked to enter text into a field displayed on the UI. For example, ask the payer to enter a One Time Password sent to their registered mobile phone number.
SINGLE_SELECT
The payer is asked to select a single option from a number of presented options. For example, ask the payer if they want a One Time Password to be sent to either their email address or mobile phone number registered with their issuer.
MULTI_SELECT
The payer is asked to select multiple options from a number of presented options. For example, ask the payer to select valid responses to a question.
OUT_OF_BAND
The payer is presented with screens rendered by an out-of-band service during an authentication challenge, For example, the payer is asked to confirm the payment from their banking app.
OTHER_HTML
The payer is presented with an authentication challenge using other mechanisms supported in HTML but not in the native UI format. For example, the payer is asked to confirm an image presented on the screen.
Alpha
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the result of payer authentication with the issuer.
This is the value returned in the transaction status field from the issuer's Access Control Server (ACS). For example, Y, N, U, A, R
Refer to the EMVCo specification for 3-D Secure.
Data may consist of the characters a-z, A-Z
Comma Separated Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
A comma separated list of the payer authentication methods that you will accept for this payment.
You only need to provide a value if you want to restrict the authentication methods you will accept.
If you do not specify a value, then the gateway treats it as if you will accept all available authentication methods.
If you accept both 3DS2 and 3DS1, then the gateway will use 3-D Secure version 2 if supported by the issuer and fallback to use 3-D Secure version 1 if it is not.
Value must be one or more comma separated members of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
3DS1
3-D Secure Version 1
3DS2
3-D Secure Version 2
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if you want the payer to be presented with an authentication challenge for this transaction.
You can use this to support local mandates or your risk tolerance. For example, you may prefer that a challenge is always performed when you store card details on file.
If you do not provide a value, the gateway will use NO_PREFERENCE. If there is no payer present (for example, recurring payments), then the gateway will ignore this field and use NO_CHALLENGE.
Note: 'challenge' means requiring the payer to take action to identify themselves, for example, entering a password.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
CHALLENGE_MANDATED
The merchant requires that the payer is presented with an authentication challenge.
CHALLENGE_PREFERRED
The merchant prefers that the payer is presented with an authentication challenge.
NO_CHALLENGE
The merchant prefers that the payer is not presented with an authentication challenge.
NO_PREFERENCE
The issuer determines whether or not the payer should be presented with an authentication challenge. The merchant does not have a preference.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the channel in which the authentication request is being initiated.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
MERCHANT_REQUESTED
The merchant is requesting authentication of a cardholder without the payer being available for interaction (for example. as part of processing of a recurring payment).
PAYER_APP
Payer is interacting via an application on their device which uses an EMVCo-certified SDK.
PAYER_BROWSER
Payer is interacting via web browser (for example, with the merchant's ecommerce web-site).
String
CONDITIONAL
Description of the goods being purchased.
If supported, this description will be displayed on the authentication UI presented to the payer.
Data can consist of any characters
This parameter group is only applicable if you are subject to the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) requirements for Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) under the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) regulations in the European Economic Area.
It provides details about SCA exemptions under PSD2.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates why this payment qualifies for exemption from Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) under the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2).
Note:
- For recurring payments provide the RECURRING_PAYMENT value only if the amount is the same. If the amount varies, provide MERCHANT_INITIATED_TRANSACTION instead.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
LOW_RISK
Exemption is claimed because the acquirer has a low fraud rate.
LOW_VALUE_PAYMENT
Exemption is claimed as the amount is below 30 Euro.
MERCHANT_INITIATED_TRANSACTION
The transaction is excluded as it was initiated by the merchant based on an agreement with the payer. For example, a recurring payment (for a varied or fixed amount), installment payment, or account top-up. In these cases, the payer is not present and cannot participate in an authentication interaction. Merchant initiated transactions are only applicable to subsequent transactions on the order and are out of scope of the PSD2 RTS on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). The payer must be authenticated during the first transaction that established the agreement.
NONE
An exemption is not claimed for this transaction. The merchant requires Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) be performed.
RECURRING_PAYMENT
The transaction is exempt as it was initiated by the merchant based on an agreement with the payer for a recurring payment for a fixed amount. This value is only applicable to subsequent transactions on the order. In this case, the payer is not present and cannot participate in an authentication interaction. The payer must be authenticated during the first transaction that established the agreement.
SECURE_CORPORATE_PAYMENT
The transaction is exempt as it is a corporate or Business-to-Business (B2B) payment performed using dedicated payment processes and protocols that are not available to consumers and offer at least equivalent security levels.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the context in which payer authentication is being requested.
If you do not provide a value, the gateway will use PAYMENT_TRANSACTION as the default.
Note:
- • If you set this value to ADD_CARD or MAINTAIN_CARD, then set order.amount to zero and order.currency to any currency you support.
- • If the authentication scheme that applies to the account does not support the purpose that you have requested, this call will return an authenticationStatus of AUTHENTICATION_NOT_SUPPORTED.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ADD_CARD
Authentication performed before a payer's card is stored on file either directly by the merchant or using the gateway's tokenization feature. A payment is not being processed.
MAINTAIN_CARD
Authentication performed before updating details of a payer's card stored on file either directly by the merchant or using the gateway's tokenization feature. A payment is not being processed.
PAYMENT_TRANSACTION
Authentication performed when of processing a card payment.
Url
CONDITIONAL
The URL to which you want to redirect the payer after completing the payer authentication process.
This will be a URL on your website, with the URL encoded as defined in RFC3986. This means special characters such spaces, hyphens, etc must be encoded.
You must provide this URL, unless you are certain that there will be no interaction with the payer.
Ensure that the URL begins with 'https' and is longer than 11 characters.
String
CONDITIONAL
The transactionId you used for the Initiate Authentication operation.
Data can consist of any characters
Authorisation response fields for a standalone capture request.
ASCII Text
CONDITIONAL
The acquirer AVS response code generated by the card issuing institution.
Data consists of ASCII characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the card level result returned by the issuer.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
CSC Incorrect Indicator.
An indicator, provided by the Issuer in the authorization response, to identify the presence of an invalid card security code (CSC). If there is an error, the Issuer will respond with the 1-byte CSC Error Code (Y).
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
An Indicator, if a Card security code was provided for the Transaction, as returned by the acquirer.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if the card used is a commercial card.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the type of commercial card as returned by the card issuer.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the code of the financial network that was used to process the transaction with the issuer.
Data can consist of any characters
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date for the Authorization as returned by the financial network.
For transactions processed via the MasterCard Network this is the MasterCard Network Reference Date.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the market or the industry associated with the payment.
For example, B may indicate "bill payment" depending on the acquirer.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the specific card information conditions for capture that are available when the card transaction occurs at point of service.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The POS Entry Mode provided to Discover (JCB (US Domestic only), and Diners) for the authorization.
Bytes 1-2: Discover (JCB (US Domestic only), and Diners) POS Entry Mode
Byte 3: Discover (JCB (US Domestic only), and Diners) Pin Entry Capability
Byte 4: RFU (Always zero)
Note: Only the first 3 bytes are required for settlement processing.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Identifies the type of Card Transaction sent to Card Acceptor.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The response code which indicates the status of the transaction.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The ACI (Authorization Characteristics Indicator) returned by the issuer.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the magnetic stripe condition and the vulnerability for fraud in Discover Network Card Transactions.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The unique identifier for the transaction returned by the issuer.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The validation code returned by the issuer.
This value must be stored to be sent with the capture transaction.
Data can consist of any characters
Details of the payer's billing address.
The payer's billing address.
This data may be used to qualify for better interchange rates on corporate purchase card transactions.
String
CONDITIONAL
The city portion of the address.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The name of the company associated with this address.
Data can consist of any characters
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 letter ISO standard alpha country code of the address.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Alphanumeric + additional characters
CONDITIONAL
The post code or zip code of the address.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, ' ', '-'
String
CONDITIONAL
The state or province of the address.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The three character ISO 3166-2 country subdivision code for the state or province of the address.
Providing this field might improve your payer experience for 3-D Secure payer authentication.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The first line of the address.
For example, this may be the street name and number, or the Post Office Box details.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The second line of the address (if provided).
Data can consist of any characters
Information required by the gateway to manage interactions with a browser payment provider's website.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The type of transaction you want to create for this payment.You can choose between an Authorization and a Payment transaction.
For a successful Authorization transaction, you must submit a CAPTURE request to move the funds from the payer's account to your account.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
AUTHORIZE
The transaction created in the gateway is an AUTHORIZATION transaction.
PAY
The transaction created in the gateway is a PAYMENT transaction.
Additional information you can provide to control the user interaction flow presented to the payer by PayPal.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates the action that PayPal displays to the payer prior to being redirected back to your website.
This field is only required when requesting a PayPal billing agreement.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
AGREE
After the payer has approved the billing agreement and their browser has been returned to your website, you will not process a payment against this billing agreement at that time.
AGREE_AND_PAY
After the payer has approved the billing agreement and their browser has been returned to your website, you will process a payment against this billing agreement.
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates whether you want PayPal to display the shipping address to the payer on the PayPal website.
By default, the shipping address is displayed to the payer. For more detailed information about displaying the shipping address on the PayPal website, see PayPal Integration: Display/Override Shipping Address.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates whether you want to allow the payer to change the shipping address for the payment on the PayPal website.
By default, the payer is allowed to change the shipping address. For more detailed information about the payer overriding the shipping address on the PayPal website, see PayPal Integration: Display/Override Shipping Address.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates where in the checkout flow you want the payer to commit to the payment - on the PayPal website or on your website after returning from the PayPal website.
With the latter option, you must confirm the payment using the CONFIRM_BROWSER_PAYMENT operation.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
CONFIRM_AT_MERCHANT
The payer commits to the payment on your website.
CONFIRM_AT_PROVIDER
The payer commits to the payment on the PayPal website.
String
CONDITIONAL
The language that you prefer the payment provider to use for pages displayed to the payer.
Provide the IETF language tag for the language in accordance with RFC 5646. You can provide either the two-letter primary language tag (for example, en, fr) or the two-letter primary language tag plus the region sub-tag (for example, en-US, fr-CA).
Data must be a language identifier or IETF language tag
Url
CONDITIONAL
The URL to which you want the payer's browser to be redirected on completing the payment at the payment provider's website.
The same redirect URL will be used by the gateway to redirect the payer's browser irrespective of the success or otherwise of the payment.
Ensure that the URL begins with 'https' and is longer than 11 characters.
Information about any constraints that apply to this transaction.
Specify constraints to ensure that the transaction conforms to predefined criteria. This is useful if your integration does not directly collect all the transaction values (e.g. a session-based integration or a checkout integration).
Information about the payment plan constraints which apply for this transaction.
Specify payment plan constraints to restrict the available payment plan options for this transaction.
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The allowable number of deferral months for the payment plan.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The allowable number of installments for the payment plan.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
String
CONDITIONAL
The identifiers for the payment plans supported for this transaction.
If you wish to offer any payment plans to the payer, provide the plan identifiers in this field else pass it as empty.
See Payment Plans for the supported payment plans and their identifiers.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.
The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.
Data can consist of any characters
Information specific to the use of dynamic currency conversion (DCC).
If you requested a rate quote via the gateway, provide the requestId as returned in the PAYMENT_OPTIONS_INQUIRY response. For rate quote requests performed outside the gateway, you must at least provide payer amount, payer currency, provider and payer exchange rate.
You can only provide DCC information on the initial transaction for an order. If provided on subsequent transactions or an order, DCC information will be ignored.
DateTime
CONDITIONAL
The timestamp of when the conversion rate is effective.
The timestamp may need to be displayed to the payer on the merchant site to satisfy regulatory requirements.
An instant in time expressed in ISO8601 date + time format - "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSZ"
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The foreign exchange markup applied as a percentage to the transaction amount for providing the conversion service.
The margin percentage may need to be displayed to the payer on the merchant site to satisfy regulatory requirements.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The total amount of the transaction in the payer's currency.
You must include this field if the payer accepted the DCC offer you presented to them.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The currency of the DCC rate quote provided by your DCC Service Provider.
The currency must be expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD and must be different to that provided for transaction currency. You must include this field if the payer accepted the DCC offer you presented to them.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The exchange rate used to convert the transaction amount into the payer's currency.
The payer exchange rate includes the foreign exchange markup (marginPercentage). The payer exchange rate is displayed to the payer on the merchant site.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
This identifies the name of the provider of the DCC quote.
This data is for information purposes, and may be useful if you use multiple DCC providers.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
FEXCO
FTT
GLOBAL_PAYMENTS
IBM
TRAVELEX_CURRENCY_SELECT
UNICREDIT
String
CONDITIONAL
The quote provider's unique reference to the rate quote.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The unique identifier for your DCC quote request as returned in the PAYMENT_OPTIONS_INQUIRY response.
Data can consist of any characters
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates how DCC applies to the order.
If not provided, this value defaults to NOT_REQUIRED.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ACCEPTED
The payer accepted the DCC offer and pays in their own currency. The conditions of the rate quote are applied in the processing of this transaction.
DECLINED
The payer declined the DCC offer and pays in your transaction currency.
NOT_AVAILABLE
A rate quote was requested, but no DCC offer was provided. For rate quotes via the gateway the PAYMENT_OPTION_INQUIRY response contains a currencyConversion.gatewayCode other than QUOTE_PROVIDED.
NOT_REQUIRED
DCC is not required for this transaction.
Information associated with the customer's account.
Information about the customer's account with you
Information about how you authenticated the payer.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The method you used to authenticate the payer.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_LOGIN
The merchant authenticated the payer using a credential system (for example,password) that they manage.
FEDERATED_IDENTITY_LOGIN
The merchant authenticated the payer using a federated identity management service such as Google or Facebook
FIDO_AUTHENTICATION
The merchant authenticated the payer using hardware, mobile, or biometrics based authentication that is compliant with FIDO Alliance specifications.
ISSUER_ACCOUNT_LOGIN
The merchant authenticated the payer using a credential system for example, password) managed by the issuer.
NONE
The merchant did not authenticate the payer.
THIRD_PARTY_ACCOUNT_LOGIN
The merchant authenticated the payer using a credential system managed by a third party.
DateTime
CONDITIONAL
The data and time you authenticated the payer using the method specified in customer.account.authentication.method.
You must provide the authentication time if you authenticated the payer.
An instant in time expressed in ISO8601 date + time format - "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSZ"
Information about the payer's historical activity related to their customer account with you.
Integer
CONDITIONAL
Number of times the account holder has tried to add or change their card over the last 24 hours.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The number of transactions (successful and abandoned) that have been requested in the last year for all payment methods stored against this customer account.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date the payer created an account with you.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Information about the payer authentication performed for a previous transaction with you.
String
CONDITIONAL
The unique transaction identifier used by the issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) to identify the transaction.
If you are processing a recurring payment, then provide the transaction acsTransactionId for the transaction where the payer was authenticated.
Data can consist of any characters
DateTime
CONDITIONAL
The date and time the payer was authenticated for the prior transaction.
If you are processing a recurring payment, then provide the time and date for the transaction where the payer was authenticated.
An instant in time expressed in ISO8601 date + time format - "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSZ"
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The method used to authenticate the payer for a prior transaction with you.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
3DS_FRICTIONLESS
3DS authentication was performed without payer interaction.
3DS_CHALLENGE
3DS authentication was performed and the payer was challenged for additional information.
ADDRESS_VERIFICATION
The issuer verifed the billing address provided by the payer. 3DS authentication was not used.
OTHER
The issuer verifed the payer using another method.
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date the payer's account with you was last updated.
For example, they changed address details or changed card details.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date the payer last changed the password for their account with you.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The number of transactions (successful and abandoned) that have been requested in the last 24 hours for all payment methods stored against this customer account.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date you first shipped goods to the payer's shipping address provided in the shipping.address parameter group.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Have you experienced suspicious or fraudulent activity on the account in the past.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
String
CONDITIONAL
Your identifier for the payer's account with you.
This should be an immutable identifier, rather than the customer's name, email or such data that could be changed by the customer.
Data can consist of any characters
Date
CONDITIONAL
The payer's date of birth.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd
Email
CONDITIONAL
The email address of the customer.
The field format restriction ensures that the email address is longer than 3 characters and adheres to a generous subset of valid RFC 2822 email addresses.
Ensures that the email address is longer than 3 characters and adheres to a generous subset of valid RFC 2822 email addresses
String
CONDITIONAL
The payer's first name.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The payer's last or surname.
Data can consist of any characters
Telephone Number
CONDITIONAL
The payer's mobile phone or cell phone number in ITU-T E123 format, for example +1 607 1234 5678
The number consists of:
- '+'
- country code (1, 2 or 3 digits)
- 'space'
- national number ( which may embed single spaces characters for readability).
Data consists of '+', country code (1, 2 or 3 digits), 'space', and national number (which may embed single space characters for readability)
String
CONDITIONAL
An identifier for the payer assigned by a government authority.
For example, in Mexico this could be the CURP (Clave Única de Registro de Población), RFC (Registro Federal del Contribuyente), or INE (Instituto Nacional Electoral) number. In Brazil this could be the CPF (Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas) or CNPJ (Cadastro Nacional de Pessoas Jurídicas).
Data can consist of any characters
Telephone Number
CONDITIONAL
The payer's phone number in ITU-T E123 format, for example +1 607 1234 456
The number consists of:
- '+'
- country code (1, 2 or 3 digits)
- 'space'
- national number ( which may embed single spaces characters for readability).
Data consists of '+', country code (1, 2 or 3 digits), 'space', and national number (which may embed single space characters for readability)
String
CONDITIONAL
The tax registration identifier of the customer.
Data can consist of any characters
Information about the device used by the payer for this transaction.
String
CONDITIONAL
The telephone number captured by ANI (Automatic Number Identification) when the customer calls to place the order.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The 2 digit ANI information identifier provided by the telephone company to indicate the call type, for example, cellular (61-63), toll free (24,25), etc.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The User-Agent header of the browser the customer used to place the order.For example, MOZILLA/4.0 (COMPATIBLE; MSIE 5.0; WINDOWS 95)
You must provide a value in this field if you are performing 3-D Secure authentication of the payer and set authentication.channel = PAYER_BROWSER.
Data can consist of any characters
Detailed information about the payer's browser.
If you are using 3-D Secure authentication to authenticate the payer, then this information is used by the issuer's Access Control Server (ACS) to identify the capabilities of the payers browser so that it can render content appropriately when authenticating the payer.
You must provide values for fields in this parameter group if you are performing 3-D Secure authentication of the payer and set authentication.channel = PAYER_BROWSER.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Dimensions of the challenge window (in width x height in pixels) displayed to the payer during 3D-Secure authentication.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
250_X_400
390_X_400
500_X_600
600_X_400
FULL_SCREEN
String
CONDITIONAL
The content of the Accept request-header field as sent from the payer's browser.
This is used to determine which content types are supported by the browser.
Data can consist of any characters
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The bit depth (in bits per pixel) of the color palette for displaying images.
You obtain this value from the screen.colorDepth property of the payer's browser.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates whether or not the payer's browser supports Java.
You obtain this value from the navigator.javaEnabled property of the payer's browser
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
String
CONDITIONAL
The language supported for the payer's browser as defined in IETF BCP47.
You obtain this value from the navigator.language property of the payer's browser.
Data can consist of any characters
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The total height of the payer's browser screen in pixels.
You obtain this value from the screen.height property of the payer's browser
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Integer
CONDITIONAL
The total width of the payer's browser screen in pixels.
You obtain this value from the screen.width property of the payer's browser
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Browser Time Zone Offset
CONDITIONAL
Time difference between UTC time and the Cardholder browser local time, in minutes.
The time zone offset is the difference, in minutes, between UTC and local time. Note that this means that the offset is positive if the local time zone is behind UTC and negative if it is ahead. For example, for time zone UTC+10:00 (Australian Eastern Standard Time, Vladivostok Time, Chamorro Standard Time), -600 would be presented.
Browser time zone offset between -840 to +840.
String
CONDITIONAL
Information collected about a remote computing device for the purpose of providing a unique identifier for the device.
For example, session ID, blackbox ID.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The name of the server to which the customer is connected.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The IP address of the device used by the payer, in nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn format.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The mobile phone manufacturer's identifier for the model of the mobile device used to initiate the payment.
Data can consist of any characters
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
The interface through which the transaction is submitted to the gateway.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
AUTO
The transaction was automatically generated by the gateway. For example, a Capture transaction for Auto-Capture or an order reversal transaction for risk rejected orders.
BATCH
The transaction was submitted as part of a merchant batch. Batches can either be uploaded via Batch or via Merchant Administration.
CHECKOUT
The transaction was created via checkout integration.
MERCHANT_ADMINISTRATION
The transaction was initiated in the Merchant Administration.
SERVICE_PROVIDER_API
The transaction was reported by an acquirer or alternate payment provider.
WEB_SERVICES_API
The transaction was submitted via Web Services API.
String
CONDITIONAL
Your payment service provider might have configured your merchant profile to support several lines of business.
Each line of business can have different payment parameters, such as bank account, supported cards or such.
For example, lineOfBusiness = TICKET_SALES can have a different bank account from lineOfBusiness = MERCHANDISING. One line of business on your profile might be "null". To use that, do not provide the lineOfBusiness field.
Data can consist of any characters except space
String
CONDITIONAL
A language identifier or IETF language tag to control the language of the payment interaction with the payer (e.g. en_US, es, fr-CA).
By default, the language is determined from your configuration. Supply a value for this field only if you wish to override the default behavior. If the language you specify is not supported by the gateway, the payment is displayed in the best matching language.
See Dynamic Currency Conversion for more detail.
Data must be a language identifier or IETF language tag
Alphanumeric + additional characters
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The unique identifier issued to you by your payment provider.
This identifier can be up to 12 characters in length.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'
Information about the order associated with this transaction.
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Indicates whether you will accept a payment less than order.amount, e.g. when using a gift card.
If not set or set to FALSE, and the full amount is not available, the transaction will be rejected.
Unless you have been advised by your payment service provider that the gateway supports partial approvals for your acquirer, you can ignore this field.
If the gateway supports partial approvals for your acquirer you must set this field to TRUE else the transaction is rejected by the gateway.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The total amount for the order. This is the net amount plus any surcharge.
If you provide any sub-total amounts, then the sum of these amounts (order.itemAmount, order.taxAmount, order.shippingAndHandlingAmount, order.cashbackAmount, order.gratuityAmount), minus the order.discountAmount must equal the net amount.
The value of this field in the response may be zero if payer funds are not transferred.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Boolean
CONDITIONAL
Set this flag if the transaction is a manual cash disbursement transaction, i.e. cash is disbursed upon the acceptance of a card by a financial institution teller.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The amount the payer has chosen to receive as cash in addition to the amount they are paying for the goods or services they are purchasing from you.
The cash back amount is included in the total amount of the order you provide in order.amount.
This field corresponds to EMV tag 9F03
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Enumeration
CONDITIONAL
Indicates if you expect to capture the full order amount for which you are requesting authorization.
If you do not provide a value for order.certainty the default configured for you by your payment service provider will be used. The value provided in the response shows the value the gateway sent to the acquirer
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ESTIMATED
The amount authorized is an estimate of the amount that will be captured. It is possible that the amount captured will be less, or might not be captured at all.
FINAL
The full authorized amount is expected to be captured within the mandated time. The order will only be cancelled in exceptional circumstances (for example, the payer cancelled their purchase).
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
String
CONDITIONAL
Information about this order that is of interest to you.
For example order.custom.X, where 'X' is defined by you and must be less than 100 characters from the set A-Z, a-z, 0-9. For example, order.custom.salesRegion. You can specify up to 50 such fields. They are not sent to acquirers.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
A note from the payer about this order.
Data can consist of any characters
Date
CONDITIONAL
The date the payer placed the order.
Data must comply with ISO 8601 extended date format, yyyy-mm-dd.
ASCII Text
CONDITIONAL
The payer's own reference for the order.
This reference may assist the payer to identify the order in their system. For example, a purchase order number, project identifier, or cost center.
Data consists of ASCII characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Short textual description of the contents of the order for display to the payer on the payment provider's website.
Data can consist of any characters
Information about a price reduction you have applied to the order.
For example, you may apply discounts for trade, employees, bulk purchase, or a sales promotion.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The total amount of the discount you have applied to the order.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
String
CONDITIONAL
The code you use to identify the reason for the discount.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
A description of your reason for the discount.
Data can consist of any characters
Digits
CONDITIONAL
This field only applies if you intend to receive the payer's funds in several Capture operations.
It indicates the total number of capture requests you intend to submit for an order. For example, if you intend to deliver the goods in two shipments and will capture part of the total amount authorized when you make each shipment, set the value of this field to 2.
If the value ever equals or drops below the actual number of successful captures, then the gateway will prevent further captures and will void any unused authorized funds. If you are unsure of the number of captures, just set the value to 99, and then set it to 1 on your last capture.
If it is not specified on Capture operations, the last specified value is retained (defaulting to 1).
Data is a number between 1 and 99 represented as a string.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The amount the payer has chosen to provide as a gratuity or tip in addition to the amount they are paying for the goods or services they are purchasing from you.
The gratuity amount is included in the total amount of the order you provide in order.amount.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
String
CONDITIONAL
A unique identifier for this order to distinguish it from any other order you create.
Use this identifier when referring to this order in subsequent transactions and in retrieval operations. This value must be unique for every order you create using your merchant profile.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The invoice number you issued for this order.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
Your tax registration identifier provided by the Local/State/Province tax authority.
If you are a Canadian merchant, use this field to provide your Tax Registration ID for paying Provincial Sales Tax (PST).
Data can consist of any characters
Digits
CONDITIONAL
A 4-digit code used to classify your business by the type of goods or services it offers.
This is also known as the Merchant Category Code (MCC).
You only need to provide the MCC if you want to override the default value configured for your acquirer link.The value you provide must match one of those configured by your payment service provider.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The amount payable for the order before surcharging is applied.
If you specify a net amount the gateway will calculate the surcharge for you. Alternatively, you can specify the surcharge amount (order.surchargeAmount) yourself.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Url
CONDITIONAL
The URL to which the gateway will send Webhook notifications when an order is created or updated.
To receive notifications at this URL, you must enable Webhook notifications in Merchant Administration. Ensure the URL is HTTPS
Ensure that the URL begins with 'https' and is longer than 11 characters.
String
CONDITIONAL
Your identifier for the part of your organization that is responsible for the order.
You might provide this data when you want to track the accountability for the order. For example, store number, sales region, branch, or profit center
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric
CONDITIONAL
Your reference to the contract or agreement you have with the payer to process recurring payments.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
String
CONDITIONAL
The identifier of the order.
For example, a shopping cart number, an order number, or an invoice number.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The name of the person who requested the goods or services.
Data can consist of any characters
Information about reward points earned using a card enrolled in a rewards program that are being redeemed as full or part payment for this order.
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The amount that the payer has chosen to pay by redeeming reward points earned using a card enrolled in a rewards program for full or part payment for this purchase.
The reward amount is included in the total amount of the order you provide in order.amount.You must provide this value if the rewards program supports a payer-nominated amount (availableBalance.reward.payerNominatedAmount returned from the Balance Inquiry operation has a value of 'true').
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Alphanumeric + additional characters
CONDITIONAL
An identifier generated by the gateway when you have requested the balance available for a credit or debit card.
The presence of this field indicates that rewards are to be redeemed.The gateway will use the details stored against this identifier when authorizing the payment with your acquirer.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_', ' ', '&', '+', '!', '$', '%', '.', '='
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The total shipping and handling amount for the order.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Contact information provided by you for printing on payer's account statements.
Descriptor address of the merchant.
String
CONDITIONAL
The city portion of the address.
Data can consist of any characters
String
CONDITIONAL
The name of the company associated with this address.
Data can consist of any characters
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The 3 letter ISO standard alpha country code of the address.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z