Plan Offers Inquiry

Request to retrieve a set of payment plan offers for a payment plan so that they can be presented to the cardholder. After the cardholder has selected one of the payment plan offers, the merchant requests a Pay or Authorize transaction that includes the number of payments selected by the cardholder. The Plan Offers Inquiry operation is applicable to AMEX_PlanAmex plan type only, where the merchant is paid in full less applicable discount rate; and the cardholder is billed in installments plus the applicable interest rate. It is used for Plan Amex transactions in Brazil to satisfy statutory requirements where the merchant must provide the cardholder with information about the amount of interest charged

POST https://na.gateway.mastercard.com/api/nvp/version/84

Authentication Copied to clipboard

This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:


  • Certificate authentication.
  • 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.

Request Copied to clipboard

Fields Copied to clipboard

apiOperation Copied to clipboard String = PLAN_OFFERS_INQUIRY FIXED

Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.

correlationId Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
merchant Copied to clipboard 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, '-', '_'

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
order Copied to clipboard REQUIRED

Information about the order associated with this transaction.

order.amount Copied to clipboard Decimal REQUIRED

The total amount for the order.  This is the net amount plus any merchant charge amounts.If you provide any sub-total amounts, then the sum of these amounts (order.itemAmount, order.taxAmount, order.shippingAndHandlingAmount, order.cashbackAmount, order.gratuityAmount, order.merchantCharge.amount and order.dutyAmount), minus the order.discountAmount must equal the net amount.

The value of this field in the response is 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.

Min length: 1 Max length: 14
order.currency Copied to clipboard Upper case alphabetic text REQUIRED

The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.

Data must consist of the characters A-Z

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
paymentPlan.numberOfPayments Copied to clipboard Digits REQUIRED

The number of monthly payments payable by the cardholder.

Data is a number between 1 and 99 represented as a string.

paymentPlan.planId Copied to clipboard String REQUIRED

The identifier for the payment plan.

See Payment Plans for the supported payment plans and their identifiers.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
responseControls Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL

Container for fields that control the response returned for the request.

responseControls.sensitiveData Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

Indicates how sensitive data is returned in the response.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 50
sourceOfFunds Copied to clipboard REQUIRED

The details describing the source of the funds to be used.

For card payments these may be represented by combining one or more of the following: explicitly provided card details, a session identifier which the gateway will use to look up the card details and/or a card token. Precedence rules will be applied in that explicitly provided card details will override session card details which will override card token details. Each of these may represent partial card details, however the combination must result in a full and complete set of card details. See Using Multiple Sources of Card Details for examples.

sourceOfFunds.provided Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL

Information about the source of funds when it is directly provided (as opposed to via a token or session).

For browser payments, the source of funds details are usually collected from the payer on the payment provider's website and provided to you when you retrieve the transaction details (for a successful transaction). However, for some payment types (such as giropay), you must collect the information from the payer and supply it here.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL

Details as shown on the card.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL

Expiry date, as shown on the card.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry.month Copied to clipboard Digits REQUIRED

Month, as shown on the card.

Months are numbered January=1, through to December=12.

Data is a number between 1 and 12 represented as a string.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry.year Copied to clipboard Digits REQUIRED

Year, as shown on the card.

The Common Era year is 2000 plus this value.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 2 Max length: 2
sourceOfFunds.provided.card.number Copied to clipboard Digits OPTIONAL

Credit card number as printed on the card.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 9 Max length: 19
sourceOfFunds.provided.card.securityCode Copied to clipboard Digits OPTIONAL

Card verification code, as printed on the back or front of the card or as provided for a card scheme token.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 3 Max length: 4
sourceOfFunds.token Copied to clipboard Alphanumeric OPTIONAL

A gateway token that contains account identifier details.

The account identifier details stored against this token will be used to process the request.
If account identifier details are also contained in the request, or the request contains a session with account identifier details, these take precedence over the details stored against the token.

Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z

Min length: 1 Max length: 40

Response Copied to clipboard

Fields Copied to clipboard

correlationId Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
order Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Information about the order associated with this transaction.

order.amount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The total amount for the order.  This is the net amount plus any merchant charge amounts.If you provide any sub-total amounts, then the sum of these amounts (order.itemAmount, order.taxAmount, order.shippingAndHandlingAmount, order.cashbackAmount, order.gratuityAmount, order.merchantCharge.amount and order.dutyAmount), minus the order.discountAmount must equal the net amount.

The value of this field in the response is zero if payer funds are not transferred.

A sequence of digits 0-9 separated by a '.' as a decimal indicator. Leading and trailing zeroes are optional. If the fractional part is zero, the '.' and following zero(es) can be omitted. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal.)

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
order.currency Copied to clipboard Upper case alphabetic text ALWAYS PROVIDED

The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.

Data must consist of the characters A-Z

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
paymentPlan Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Information about the payment plan including interest rate and the available payment plan offers.

paymentPlan.interestRate Copied to clipboard Decimal CONDITIONAL

The interest rate applied to the purchase amount for this plan.

A sequence of digits 0-9 separated by a '.' as a decimal indicator. Leading and trailing zeroes are optional. If the fractional part is zero, the '.' and following zero(es) can be omitted. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal.)

Max value: 100 Min value: 0
paymentPlan.planId Copied to clipboard String ALWAYS PROVIDED

The identifier for the payment plan.

See Payment Plans for the supported payment plans and their identifiers.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
paymentPlan.planOffer[n] Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Information about the available payment plan offers.

For AMEX_PlanAmex plan type, up to 5 offers will be returned based on the requested number of payments. The response includes offer for the requested number of payments, as well as for 2 more and 2 less number of payments.

paymentPlan.planOffer[n].finalAmount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The total amount payable by the cardholder, including interest for this plan.

The amount is expressed as a decimal number in the units of the currency. For example 12.34 in USD is the amount 12 dollars and 34 cents

A sequence of digits 0-9 separated by a '.' as a decimal indicator. Leading and trailing zeroes are optional. If the fractional part is zero, the '.' and following zero(es) can be omitted. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal.)

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
paymentPlan.planOffer[n].numberOfPayments Copied to clipboard Integer ALWAYS PROVIDED

The number of monthly payments payable by the cardholder.

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.)

Min value: 1 Max value: 99
paymentPlan.planOffer[n].paymentAmount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The value of each monthly payment for this payment plan offer.

The amount is expressed as a decimal number in the units of the currency. For example 12.34 in USD is the amount 12 dollars and 34 cents.

A sequence of digits 0-9 separated by a '.' as a decimal indicator. Leading and trailing zeroes are optional. If the fractional part is zero, the '.' and following zero(es) can be omitted. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal.)

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
response.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

Summary of the success or otherwise of the proposed operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ABORTED

Transaction aborted by payer

ACQUIRER_SYSTEM_ERROR

Acquirer system error occurred processing the transaction

APPROVED

Transaction Approved

APPROVED_PENDING_SETTLEMENT

Transaction Approved - pending batch settlement

AUTHENTICATION_FAILED

Payer authentication failed

BLOCKED

Transaction blocked due to Risk or 3D Secure blocking rules

CANCELLED

Transaction cancelled by payer

DECLINED

The requested operation was not successful. For example, a payment was declined by issuer or payer authentication was not able to be successfully completed.

DECLINED_AVS

Transaction declined due to address verification

DECLINED_AVS_CSC

Transaction declined due to address verification and card security code

DECLINED_CSC

Transaction declined due to card security code

DECLINED_DO_NOT_CONTACT

Transaction declined - do not contact issuer

DECLINED_PAYMENT_PLAN

Transaction declined due to payment plan

DEFERRED_TRANSACTION_RECEIVED

Deferred transaction received and awaiting processing

DUPLICATE_BATCH

Transaction declined due to duplicate batch

EXCEEDED_RETRY_LIMIT

Transaction retry limit exceeded

EXPIRED_CARD

Transaction declined due to expired card

INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS

Transaction declined due to insufficient funds

INVALID_CSC

Invalid card security code

LOCK_FAILURE

Order locked - another transaction is in progress for this order

NOT_ENROLLED_3D_SECURE

Card holder is not enrolled in 3D Secure

NOT_SUPPORTED

Transaction type not supported

PENDING

Transaction is pending

REFERRED

Transaction declined - refer to issuer

SYSTEM_ERROR

Internal system error occurred processing the transaction

TIMED_OUT

The gateway has timed out the request to the acquirer because it did not receive a response. You can handle the transaction as a declined transaction. Where possible the gateway will attempt to reverse the transaction.

UNKNOWN

The transaction has been submitted to the acquirer but the gateway was not able to find out about the success or otherwise of the payment. If the gateway subsequently finds out about the success of the payment it will update the response code.

UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE

Transaction could not be processed

result Copied to clipboard Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

A system-generated high level overall result of the operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

FAILURE

The operation was declined or rejected by the gateway, acquirer or issuer

PENDING

The operation is currently in progress or pending processing

SUCCESS

The operation was successfully processed

UNKNOWN

The result of the operation is unknown

sourceOfFunds Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Details about the source of the funds for this payment.

sourceOfFunds.provided Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

The details of the source of funds when they are directly provided as opposed to via a token or session.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Details as shown on the card.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL

Expiry date, as shown on the card.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry.month Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Month, as shown on the card.

Months are numbered January=1, through to December=12.

Data is a number between 1 and 12 represented as a string.

sourceOfFunds.provided.card.expiry.year Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Year, as shown on the card.

The Common Era year is 2000 plus this value.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 2 Max length: 2
sourceOfFunds.provided.card.number Copied to clipboard Masked digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

The account number embossed onto the card.

By default, the card number will be returned in 6.4 masking format, for example, 000000xxxxxx0000.If you wish to return unmasked card numbers, you must have the requisite permission, set responseControls.sensitiveData field to UNMASK, and authenticate your call to the API using certificate authentication.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9, plus 'x' for masking

Min length: 9 Max length: 19

Errors Copied to clipboard

error Copied to clipboard

Information on possible error conditions that may occur while processing an operation using the API.

error.cause Copied to clipboard Enumeration

Broadly categorizes the cause of the error.

For example, errors may occur due to invalid requests or internal system failures.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

INVALID_REQUEST

The request was rejected because it did not conform to the API protocol.

REQUEST_REJECTED

The request was rejected due to security reasons such as firewall rules, expired certificate, etc.

SERVER_BUSY

The server did not have enough resources to process the request at the moment.

SERVER_FAILED

There was an internal system failure.

error.explanation Copied to clipboard String

Textual description of the error based on the cause.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST or SERVER_BUSY.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 1000
error.field Copied to clipboard String

Indicates the name of the field that failed validation.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
error.supportCode Copied to clipboard String

Indicates the code that helps the support team to quickly identify the exact cause of the error.

This field is returned only if the cause is SERVER_FAILED or REQUEST_REJECTED.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
error.validationType Copied to clipboard Enumeration

Indicates the type of field validation error.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

INVALID

The request contained a field with a value that did not pass validation.

MISSING

The request was missing a mandatory field.

UNSUPPORTED

The request contained a field that is unsupported.

result Copied to clipboard Enumeration

A system-generated high level overall result of the operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ERROR

The operation resulted in an error and hence cannot be processed.