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Introduction to Invoicing
The Invoicing API enables you to create and send invoices as well as track outstanding
invoices. Your customers can pay using their preferred payment method from any device on
a secure
Cybersource
hosted website. Automated reminders are available
to help you remind customers of upcoming due dates or overdue invoices. For more
information, see Invoicing API Requests.You can also customize your invoice payment page to display your brand logo and color, as
well as add custom messages to your invoice emails. Shipping information and phone
numbers can also be collected at the time of payment. For more information, see Invoicing Settings API Requests.
The Invoicing API uses
Cybersource
's Unified Checkout
to
securely process payments so that you do not have to handle confidential payment data.
Fraud and risk management tools are incorporated into Unified Checkout
to
prevent fraud and reduce chargebacks. For additional security, you can add payer
authentication to your invoice payment processing. For more information, see Add Payer Authentication to Invoicing.To receive notifications when an invoice is paid, sent, or
cancelled, you can create a subscription to receive invoicing webhook notifications. For
more information, see Webhook Notifications for Invoicing.
IMPORTANT
The merchant is responsible for complying with any
legal and tax requirements when issuing invoices to clients.
Cybersource
does not certify that the invoicing tool meets any such client requirements.IMPORTANT
Invoicing fields are
strictly designated for non-personal data and must not be used to capture personally
identifying information. You are prohibited from capturing, obtaining, or transmitting
any personally identifying information in or through any invoicing fields, including
merchant-defined data fields.
Personally identifying information includes, but is not
limited to, address, payment card number, social security number, driver's license
number, state-issued identification number, passport number, and card verification
numbers (CVV, CVC2, CVV2, CID, CVN). In the event it is discovered that a merchant
is capturing and/or transmitting personally identifying information, whether or not
intentionally, the merchant's account is immediately suspended, which results in a
rejection of any and all transaction requests submitted by the merchant after the
point of suspension.
Requirements
The Invoicing API requires a transaction MID account and API authentication before
you can begin sending API messages to
Cybersource
. For more
information, see the REST Getting Started User
Guide
.Configure Unified Checkout
Unified Checkout
Invoicing supports
Unified Checkout
, which enables you to accept
numerous types of digital payments, such as Apple Pay, Click to Pay
, and Google Pay.For more information about enabling these digital payments using
Unified Checkout
, see the
Enable Digital
Payments
section in the Digital Accept Secure Integration Developer
Guide
.Tokenization for Merchant-Initiated Transactions
You can create
Token Management Service
(TMS
) tokens from invoice
transactions using Transaction Management in the Business Center
.IMPORTANT
If you create and use
TMS
tokens for
merchant-initiated transactions (MITs), you must comply with the Consent
Agreement Provisions
as stated in the Improving Authorization Management for
Transactions with Stored Credentials
guide.Sandbox Testing
You can test invoicing API requests using the Invoicing API Reference
in the
Cybersource
developer center.