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Mastercard Initial CIT Subscription Payment
The first transaction in a subscription payment is a customer-initiated transaction
(CIT). Before you can perform a subsequent merchant-initiated transaction (MIT), you
must store the customer's credentials for later use. Before you can store the user's
credentials, you need to get the customer's consent to store their private information.
This is also known as establishing a relationship with the customer.
Fields Specific to this Use Case
Include the following information with a standard authorization request when storing
customer credentials during the initial CIT subscription payment:
- processingInformation.authorizationOptions.initiator.credentialStoredOnFile–Set the field totrueto indicate the customer credentials will be stored for future use.
- processingInformation.commerceIndicator–Set the field tointernetor a payer authentication value.
- processingInformation.initiator.merchantInitiatedTransaction.reason–Set the reason code field to7.
- In the CIT authorization response, capture the value in theprocessorInformation.networkTransactionIdfield. You will need to include the network transaction ID in subsequent MIT authorization requests.
Endpoint
POST
https://api.cybersource.com
/pts/v2/payments