Developer's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Downloading, Installing, and Activating
- Simple Payflow Transaction
- Performing Direct Payment Credit Card Transactions
- About Direct Payment Credit Card Processing
- Parameters Used in 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 Credit Transactions
- Submitting Void Transactions
- Recharging to the Same Credit Card (Reference Transactions)
- Using Address Verification Service
- Card Security Code Validation
- Responses to Transaction Requests
- Testing Credit Card Transactions
- Verbosity: Viewing Processor- Specific Transaction Results
- Currency Codes
- Country Codes
- Index
Website Payments Pro Payflow Edition Developer’s Guide 55
A
Verbosity: Viewing Processor-
Specific Transaction Results
Transaction results (especially values for declines and error conditions) returned by the PayPal
processor vary in detail level and in format. The VERBOSITY parameter enables you to control
the kind and level of information you want returned.
By default, VERBOSITY is set to LOW.. A LOW setting causes the server to normalize the
transaction result values. Normalizing the values limits them to a standardized set of values
and simplifies the process of integration.
By setting VERBOSITY to MEDIUM, you can view PayPal’s raw response values. This setting is
more “verbose” than the LOW setting in that it returns more detailed, processor-specific
information.
Supported Verbosity Settings
PayPal supports the following VERBOSITY settings.
z LOW: This is the default setting for Payflow accounts. The following values are returned:
{RESULT, PNREF, RESPMSG, AUTHCODE, AVSADDR, AVSZIP, CVV2MATCH, IAVS,
CARDSECURE}
z MEDIUM: All of the values returned for a LOW setting, plus the following values:
NOTE: For information on interpreting the responses returned by the processor for the MEDIUM
VERBOSITY setting, contact your processor directly.
TABLE A.1 Verbosity settings
Field Name Type Length Description
HOSTCODE char 7 Response code returned by the PayPal processor.
This value is not normalized.
RESPTEXT char 17 Text corresponding to the response code returned by
the PayPal processor. This text is not normalized.
PROCAVS char 1 AVS response from the PayPal processor
PROCCVV2 char 1 CVV2 response from the PayPal processor
PROCCARDSECURE char 1 VPAS/SPA response from the PayPal processor.
ADDLMSGS char Up to 1048
characters.
Typically 50
characters.
Additional error message that indicates that the
merchant used a feature that is disabled.