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TransactionSearch API Operation
TransactionSearch Request Message
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190 August 2012 Name-Value Pair API Developer Guide
ACCT (Optional) Search by credit card number, as set by you for the original transaction.
This field searches the records for items the merchant sells. The field is not applicable
to point-of-sale.
NOTE: No wildcards are allowed.
Character length and limitations: Must be at least 11 and no more than 25 single-byte
numeric characters maximum. Special punctuation, such as dashes or spaces, is
ignored.
AUCTIONITEMNUMBER (Optional) Search by auction item number of the purchased goods. This field is not
applicable to point-of-sale.
TRANSACTIONCLASS (Optional) Search by classification of transaction. Some kinds of possible classes of
transactions are not searchable with this field. You cannot search for bank transfer
withdrawals, for example. It is one of the following values:
 All – All transaction classifications
 Sent – Only payments sent
 Received – Only payments received
 MassPay – Only mass payments
 MoneyRequest – Only money requests
 FundsAdded – Only funds added to balance
 FundsWithdrawn – Only funds withdrawn from balance
 Referral – Only transactions involving referrals
 Fee – Only transactions involving fees
 Subscription – Only transactions involving subscriptions
 Dividend – Only transactions involving dividends
 Billpay – Only transactions involving BillPay Transactions
 Refund – Only transactions involving funds
 CurrencyConversions – Only transactions involving currency conversions
 BalanceTransfer – Only transactions involving balance transfers
 Reversal – Only transactions involving BillPay reversals
 Shipping – Only transactions involving UPS shipping fees
 BalanceAffecting – Only transactions that affect the account balance
 ECheck – Only transactions involving eCheck
AMT (Optional) Search by transaction amount.
NOTE: You must set the currencyID attribute to one of the 3-character currency
codes for any of the supported PayPal currencies.
Character length and limitations: Value is a positive number which cannot exceed
$10,000 USD in any currency. It includes no currency symbol. It must have 2 decimal
places, the decimal separator must be a period (.), and the optional thousands
separator must be a comma (,).
CURRENCYCODE (Optional) Search by 3-character, ISO 4217 currency code.
Field Description