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payerAuthEnrollService_challengeCode

Authentication type or challenge presented to the cardholder at checkout.
This field is available only for the
Banque de France et Tresor Public
,
BNP Paribas France
, and
Credit Mutuel-CIC
 processors.
The challenge is issued after requesting secure transactions through the
Cybersource
 payer authentication services.
A
challenge
 means that strong customer authentication is required. The challenge status does the following:
  • Informs the issuer about the alternative authentication methods that the cardholder used.
  • Enables you to override default values for one transaction at a time and increase the authorization acceptance rate at the risk of accepting a liability shift for the transaction.
Possible values:
  • 01
    : No preference.
  • 02
    : No challenge requested, but the reason is unknown.
  • 03
    : You requested the challenge. You can default to this value for every transaction when you see an increase in fraud rates.
  • 04
    : Challenge mandated. Strong customer authentication is required when one of the following is true:
    • Transaction amount exceeds 30 EUR and there have been at least five transactions on the payment card during the preceding week.
    • Cumulative amount for the payment card during the preceding week exceeds 100 EUR.
  • 05
    : No challenge requested because transactional risk analysis has already been performed.
  • 06
    : No challenge requested because the purpose of this transaction is to share data, not to move money.
  • 07
    : No challenge requested because strong consumer authentication has already been performed.
  • 08
    : No challenge requested because the cardholder is on a white list of exempt cardholders.
  • 09
    : Challenge requested by issuer. Determine whether the cardholder is on a white list of exempt cardholders.
This field defaults to
01
 on merchant configuration and can be overridden by the merchant. EMV 3-D Secure version 2.1.0 supports values
01
-
04
. Version 2.2.0 supports values
01
-
09
.
When you request the payer authentication and authorization services separately, get the value for this field from the
payerAuthEnrollService_challengeCode
 request field.

Specifications

  • Data Type:
     Integer
  • Data Length:
     2

Mapping Information

  • REST API Field:
    consumerAuthenticationInformation. challengeCode
  • SCMP API Field:
    pa_challenge_code
  • Simple Order API Fields:
    • ccAuthService_paChallengeCode
    • payerAuthEnrollService_challengeCode