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Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition Developer’s Guide 55
6
Responses to Transaction
Requests
When a transaction finishes, the Payflow server returns a response string made up of name-
value pairs. This is an example response string.
RESULT=0&PNREF=EFHP0D426A53&RESPMSG=APPROVED&AUTHCODE=25TEST&AVSADDR
=Y&AVSZIP=N&CVV2MATCH=Y
Contents of a Response to a Credit Card Transaction Request
The table below describes values that can be returned in response strings
TABLE 6.8 Transaction response values
Field Description
PNREF Payflow Transaction ID, a unique number that identifies the transaction.
Character length and limitations: 12 alphanumeric characters
PPREF Unique transaction ID of the payment.
Character length and limitations: 17-character string
RESULT The outcome of the attempted transaction. RESULT=0 means the
transaction was approved.
NOTE: For Account Verification transactions, RESULT=0 with
RESPMSG=Verified means a zero dollar authorization has been
successfully performed.
Any other value for RESULT indicates a decline or error.
Character length and limitations: variable length, numeric
CVV2MATCH Result of the card security code (CVV2) check. The issuing bank may
decline the transaction if there is a mismatch. In other cases, the
transaction may be approved despite a mismatch.
Character length and limitations: 1 alpha character (Y, N, X, or no
response)
RESPMSG The response message returned with the transaction result. Exact wording
varies. Sometimes a colon appears after the initial RESPMSG followed by
more detailed information.
NOTE: For Account Verification transactions, RESULT=0 with
RESPMSG=Verified means a zero dollar authorization has been
successfully performed.
Character length and limitations: variable, alphanumeric characters