User's Guide

Table Of Contents
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Acting on Transactions that Triggered Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Rejecting Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Fine-tuning Filter Settings—Using the Filter Scorecard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Ensuring Meaningful Data on the Filter Scorecard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Re-running Transactions That Were Not Screened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 5 Activating and Configuring the Buyer Authentication Service
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Building Customer Confidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Enrolling in the Buyer Authentication Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Downloading the Payflow SDK (Including APIs and API Documentation) . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring Buyer Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Generate Transaction Request Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Testing and Activating the Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 6 Performing Buyer Authentication Transactions Using the
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Testing the Buyer Authentication Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Buyer Authentication Transaction Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Buyer Authentication Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Buyer Authentication Server URLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Detailed Buyer Authentication Transaction Flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Call 1: Verify that the cardholder is enrolled in the 3-D Secure program . . . . . . . . 35
Call 2: POST the authentication request to and redirect the customer’s browser to the ACS
URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Call 3: Validate the PARES authentication data returned by the ACS server . . . . . . 38
Call 4: Submit the intended transaction request to the Payflow server . . . . . . . . . 38
Example Buyer Authentication Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Example Verify Enrollment Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Example Verify Enrollment Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Example Validate Authentication Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Example Payflow Authorization or Sale Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Buyer Authentication Transaction Parameters and Return Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Transaction Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Verify Enrollment Transaction Name-Value Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Validate Authentication Transaction Name-Value Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Standard Payflow Sale or Authorization Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
ECI Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47