Developer's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Downloading, Installing, and Activating
- Simple Payflow Transaction
- Credit Card Transactions
- Credit Card Features
- About Credit Card Processing
- Parameters Used in Credit Card Transactions
- Submitting Sale Transactions
- Submitting Authorization/Delayed Capture Transactions
- When To Use Authorization/Delayed Capture Transactions
- Required Authorization Transaction Parameters
- Typical Authorization 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 Account Verifications With TRXTYPE=A
- Submitting Voice Authorization Transactions
- Submitting Credit Transactions
- Submitting Void Transactions
- Submitting Inquiry Transactions
- Recharging to the Same Credit Card (Reference Transactions)
- Submitting Card-Present (SWIPE) Transactions
- Submitting Purchasing Card Transactions
- Using Address Verification Service
- Processing Platforms Supporting Address Verification Service
- Example Address Verification Service Request Parameter List
- Example Address Verification Service Response
- Card Security Code Validation
- Credit Card Testing
- Responses to Transaction Requests
- Processors Requiring Additional Transaction Parameters
- Performing TeleCheck Electronic Check Transactions
- Submitting Purchasing Card Level 2 and Level 3 Transactions
- About Purchasing Cards
- About Program Levels
- About American Express Purchasing Card Transactions - Phoenix Processor
- American Express Phoenix Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) Nashville Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) North Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- First Data Merchant Services South (FDMS) Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Global Payments - Central Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Global Payments - East Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Merchant e-Solutions Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Elavon (Formerly Nova) Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Paymentech Salem (New Hampshire) Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- Paymentech Tampa Level 2 Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- TSYS Acquiring Solutions Purchasing Card Transaction Processing
- VERBOSITY: Viewing Processor- Specific Transaction Results
- Additional Reporting Parameters
- ISO Country Codes
- Codes Used by FDMS South Only
- XMLPay
- Additional Processor Information
- Index
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Simple Payflow Transaction
All Payflow transactions include a common set of required parameters. Additional parameters
are required depending on the transaction type.You can also provide many optional
parameters, depending on the results you want returned. For example, you can set the
VERBOSITY parameter to return PayPal processor-specific details rather than normalized
information if you are looking for this kind of information. VERBOSITY is described in detail
in Appendix D, “VERBOSITY: Viewing Processor-Specific Transaction Results.”
Transaction Requests
Request Contents
A transaction request includes:
z Connection parameters
z User parameters
z Parameters specific to the type of the transaction, such as a sale or an authorization
Data Modes for Sending
You can send parameter data in the transaction request to the Payflow server in either of two
modes:
z Name-value pair
z XMLPay
The examples in this guide are presented in name-value pair format. Name-value pair syntax
guidelines are described in “PARMLIST Syntax Guidelines” on page 20.
XMLPay is an XML syntax for payment requests and associated responses in a payment-
processing network. Instead of using name-value pairs, you can send XML documents to the
Payflow server based on the XMLPay 2.0 schema. For details on XMLPay, see XMLPay
Developer’s Guide in the Payflow Pro documentation on Developer Central.