User's Guide

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Activating and Configuring the Buyer Authentication Service
Configuring Buyer Authentication
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5. When the customer enters their password and clicks Submit, the ACS verifies the
password and posts a response to the TermURL (the page on your site that is configured to
receive ACS responses).
6. Submit a Validate Authentication Response transaction request (type Z) to validate (ensure
that the message has not been falsified or tampered with) and decompose the
Authentication Response from the card-issuing bank (ACS). See “Example Validate
Authentication Response” on page 41.
7. The response contains the following data elements:
–XID
Authentication Status
ECI. E-commerce Indicator
Visa: CAVV. Cardholder Authentication Verification Value
or
MasterCard: AAV. Accountholder Authentication Value
Submit these values, along with the standard transaction data, in a standard Sale or
Authorization transaction request, as described in “Call 4: Submit the intended transaction
request to the Payflow server” on page 38.