Introduction to the Simple Order API Fields {#api-so-fields-intro}
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This guide provides an alphabetical list of the Simple Order API fields available through the `Cybersource` platform.

Data Type Definitions {#api-so-fields-intro_section_bmp_syq_rzb}
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For more information about these data types, see the [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes Second Edition](https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ "").

* **Date and time:**
  * **Format:** yyyy-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ  
    T separates the date and the time.  
    Z indicates Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  * **Example:** 2021-01-11T22:47:57Z is January 11, 2021, at 22:47:57 (10:47:57 p.m.)
* **Integer:** Whole number {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}
* **String:** Sequence of letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters

