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Transaction Responses
RESULT Codes and RESPMSG Values
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42 Payflow Link User’s Guide
AVS Result Codes
IMPORTANT: The AVS result is for advice only. Banks do not decline transactions based on
the AVS result—you make the decision to approve or decline each transaction.
You must manually check the results of each manual transaction to view its
AVS result and to act on it appropriately.
AVS does not operate for manual transactions.
For US cardholders, the Address Verification Service (AVS) compares the submitted street
address and zip code with the values on file at the cardholders bank. (AVS is supported by
most US banks and by some International banks.)
The International AVS response (IAVS) indicates whether AVS response is international (Y),
USA (N), or cannot be determined (X). Payflow Pro client version 3.06 or later is required.
Processors that Support AVS
PayPal supports the AVS services as listed in the table below.
TABLE A.3 Processing platforms supporting AVS
Processing Platform
American
Express
Discover MasterCard Visa
American Express Phoenix X
American Express Brighton X
FDMS Nashville X X X X
FDMS North X X X X
FDMS South X X X X
Global Payments Central X X X X
Global Payments East X X X X
Merchant e-Solutions X X X X
Elavon (formerly Nova) X X X X
Paymentech Salem (New
Hampshire)
X X X X
Paymentech Tampa X X X X
TSYS Acquiring Solutions
(formerly Vital Processing
Services)
X X X X