API Overview

Payments Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document

Introduction to Payments
- Financial Institutions and Payment Networks
- Card Types
- Transaction Types
- Payment Services
- Payment Features
- Testing the Payment Services

Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Additional Resources for Debit and Prepaid Payments
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations

Mastercard Processing
- Mastercard Payment of Winnings Processing

Payer Authentication Processing
- Additional Resources for Payer Authentication
- Providing Payer Authentication Information for Authorization
- Discover/Diners ProtectBuy
- Mastercard Identity Check
- Visa Secure

Relaxed Requirements for Address Data and Expiration Date in Payment Transactions
- Requirements
- Services
- Relaxed Fields

Processing Payments Using Credentials
- Additional Resources for Credentialed Transactions
- Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File
- Delayed Transaction
- Incremental Transaction
- No-Show Transactions
- Reauthorization Transaction
- Resubmission Transaction
- Recurring Payments
- Mastercard Standing Order Payments
- Mastercard Subscription Payments
- Unscheduled COF Payments

Token Management Service Processing
- Additional Resources for TMS
- Authorizing a Payment with a Customer Token
- Authorizing a Payment with a Non-Default Shipping Address
- Authorizing a Payment with a Non-Default Payment Instrument
- Authorizing a Payment with a Payment Instrument
- Authorize a Payment with an Instrument Identifier
- Authorize a Payment While Ignoring Network Token
- Authorizing a Payment with a Legacy Token
- Making a Credit with a Customer Token
- Making a Credit with a Non-Default Payment Instrument
- Making a Credit with a Payment Instrument
- Making a Credit with an Instrument Identifier
- Making a Credit with a Legacy Token

Credit Cards

Cardholders use credit cards to borrow money from issuing banks to pay for goods and services offered by merchants that accept credit cards.