Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File

A customer-initiated transaction (CIT) is a transaction initiated by the customer. There are two types of CITs:
  • Customer transactions during which the credentials are stored for future
    customer
    -initiated transactions.
  • Customer transactions during which the credentials are stored for future
    merchant
    -initiated transactions.
Customers can initiate a CIT at a merchant payment terminal, through an online purchase transaction, or by making a purchase using a previously stored credential.

Business Center

You can create a new customer-initiated transaction in the
Business Center
by going to the One-Time Payments section and requesting a new authorization. When you have entered the customer's information, you can store the customer's credentials with the customer's permission in the Payment Information section. By doing so, you can perform merchant-initiated transactions for payments that the customer has pre-approved.
For more information on how to perform a MIT in the
Business Center
, see Merchant-Initiated No-Show Transactions with PAN.

Storing Customer Credentials with a CIT and PAN

Before you can perform a merchant-initiated transaction (MIT) or a customer-initiated transaction (CIT) with credentials-on-file (COF), you must store the customer's credentials for later use. Further, before you can store the user's credentials, you must get the customer's consent to store their private information. This is also known as establishing a relationship with the customer.

Endpoint

Set the
ccAuthService_run
field to
true
.
Send the request to
https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor
.
Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File

Using Stored Customer Credentials During a CIT

After customers store their credentials on file, they can recall these credentials to use with subsequent transactions.

Endpoint

Set the
ccAuthService_run
field to
true
.
Send the request to
https://ics2ws.ic3.com/commerce/1.x/transactionProcessor
.
Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File