Developer's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Payflow Pro Developer’s Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Installing and Configuring the Payflow APIs
- Performing Credit Card Transactions
- About Credit Card Processing
- Contents of a Transaction Request
- How To Format a Transaction
- Parameters Used in Credit Card Transactions
- Values Required by All Transaction Types
- Submitting Sale Transactions
- Submitting Authorisation/Delayed Capture Transactions
- When To Use Authorisation/Delayed Capture Transactions
- Required Authorisation Transaction Parameters
- Typical Authorisation Transaction Parameter String
- Required Delayed Capture Transaction Parameters
- Delayed Capture Transaction: Capturing Transactions for Lower Amounts
- Delayed Capture Transaction: Capturing Transactions for Higher Amounts
- Delayed Capture Transaction: Error Handling and Retransmittal
- Submitting Voice Authorisation Transactions
- Submitting Credit Transactions
- Submitting Void Transactions
- Submitting Inquiry Transactions
- Recharging to the Same Credit Card (Reference Transactions)
- Submitting Card-Present (SWIPE) Transactions
- Card Security Code Validation
- Responses to Credit Card Transaction Requests
- Testing Payflow Pro Credit Card Transactions
- Activating Your Payflow Pro Account
- Processor Details
- Verbosity: Viewing Processor- Specific Transaction Results
- Additional Reporting Parameters
- XMLPay
- Index
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Intended Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Organization of This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Where to Go for More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
How to Contact Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About Payflow Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Host Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
How Payflow Pro Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Payflow Pro Advantages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Supported Processing Platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Payflow Pro Recurring Billing Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
About Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring the Payflow APIs . . . . . . . .13
Preparing the Payflow Client Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3 Performing Credit Card Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . .15
About Credit Card Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Obtaining an Internet Merchant Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Planning Your Payflow Pro Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Complying With the E-commerce Indicator (ECI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Handling Credit Card Type Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Contents of a Transaction Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
PARMLIST Syntax Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
How To Format a Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Parameters Used in Credit Card Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Values Required by All Transaction Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Submitting Sale Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24