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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Verbosity: Viewing Processor-
Specific Transaction Results
Transaction results (especially values for declines and error conditions) returned by each
PayPal-supported processor vary in detail level and in format. The Payflow Verbosity
parameter enables you to control the kind and level of information you want returned.
By default, Verbosity is set to LOW. A LOW setting causes PayPal to normalize the
transaction result values. Normalizing the values limits them to a standardized set of values
and simplifies the process of integrating the Payflow SDK.
By setting Verbosity to MEDIUM, you can view the processor’s raw response values. This
setting is more “verbose” than the LOW setting in that it returns more detailed, processor-
specific information.
Supported Verbosity Settings
The following Verbosity settings are supported for PayPal-supported processors. Contact your
processor or bank for definitions of the returned values.
z LOW: This is the default setting for PayPal accounts. The following values are returned:
{RESULT, PNREF, RESPMSG, AUTHCODE, CVV2MATCH, CARDSECURE}
z MEDIUM: All of the values returned for a LOW setting, plus the following values:
N OTE: For information on interpreting the responses returned by the processor for the
MEDIUM Verbosity setting, contact your processor directly.
TABLE B.1 Verbosity settings
Field Name Type Length Description
HOSTCODE Char 7 Response code returned by the processor. This
value is not normalized by PayPal.
RESPTEXT Char 17 Text corresponding to the response code returned by
the processor. This text is not normalized by
PayPal.
PROCCVV2 Char 1 CVV2 (buyer authentication) response from the
processor
PROCCARDSECURE Char 1 VPAS/SPA response from the processor
ADDLMSGS char Up to 1048
characters.
Typically 50
characters.
Additional error message that indicates that the
merchant used a feature that is disabled