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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Preface
Payflow Pro is a high performance TCP/IP-based Internet payment solution. Payflow Pro is
pre-integrated with leading e-commerce solutions and is also available as a downloadable
software development kit (SDK).
Intended Audience
This guide assumes that its readers:
z Are experienced web or application developers
z Have a background in payments services
Organization of This Document
This document is organized as follows:
z Chapter 1, “Introduction,” describes the Payflow Pro internet payment solution.
z Chapter 2, “Installing and Configuring the Payflow APIs,” shows a typical Payflow
installation procedure for Windows NT and UNIX.
z Chapter 3, “Performing Credit Card Transactions,” discusses credit card transaction syntax
and parameters and describes how to perform transactions.
z Chapter 4, “Responses to Credit Card Transaction Requests,” describes the responses to
credit card transaction requests.
z Chapter 5, “Testing Payflow Pro Credit Card Transactions,” describes how to test your
Payflow Pro integration for credit card transactions.
z Chapter 6, “Activating Your Payflow Pro Account,” specifies the steps you follow when
you are ready to accept live transactions with Payflow.
z Appendix A, “Processors Requiring Additional Transaction Parameters,” lists processors
and their processor-specific parameters.
z Appendix B, “Verbosity: Viewing Processor-Specific Transaction Results,” describes how
you can use the Payflow Verbosity parameter to control the kind and level of information
you want returned in a transaction response.
z Appendix C, “Additional Reporting Parameters,” details the parameters that can be passed
to the server for reporting purposes.
z Appendix D, “XMLPay,” briefly describes XMLPay and tells where you may obtain a
copy of Payflow Pro XMLPay Developer’s Guide.