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Payments Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Payments
- Financial Institutions and Payment Networks
- Card Types
- Transaction Types
- Payment Services
  - Authorizations
    - Online Authorizations
    - Offline Authorizations
    - Pre-Authorizations
    - Payment Network Token Authorizations
    - Authorization Workflow
  - Sale
    - Dual-Message Processing
      - Partial Authorizations
    - Single-Message Processing
  - Authorization Reversals
  - Automatic Partial Authorization Reversals
  - Captures
    - Capture Workflow
  - Credits
    - Credit Workflow
  - Voids
- Payment Features
  - Debit and Prepaid Card Payments
  - Airline Data
    - Cybersource Airline Data Processing
    - Airline Data Reference Information
      - Airline Document Type Codes
      - Ancillary Service Category Codes
  - Interchange Optimization
  - Japanese Payment Options
  - Mastercard Bill Payments
  - Mastercard Expert Monitoring Solutions
  - Payer Authentication
  - Relaxed Requirements for Address Data and Expiration Date in Payment Transactions
  - Split Shipments
  - Introduction to Credentialed Transactions
- Testing the Payment Services
  - Requirements for Testing
  - Test Card Numbers
  - Using Amounts to Simulate Errors
  - Test American Express Card Verification

Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Additional Resources for Debit and Prepaid Payments
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
- Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
- Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

Airline Data Processing
- Airline Travel Legs
- Authorize an Airline Ticket Payment
- Captures for Ticket Purchases
- Captures for Ancillary Purchases
- Follow-On Credits
- Issue a Stand-Alone Credit

Japanese Payment Options Processing
- Authorize a Single Payment with Japanese Payment Options
- Authorize a Bonus Payment with Japanese Payment Options
- Authorize an Installment Payment with Japanese Payment Options
- Authorize a Revolving Payment with Japanese Payment Options
- Authorize a Combination Payment with Japanese Payment Options

Mastercard Processing
- Mastercard Bill Payment Processing
- Mastercard Expert Monitoring Solutions Processing

Payer Authentication Processing
- Additional Resources for Payer Authentication
- Providing Payer Authentication Information for Authorization
- American Express SafeKey
- JCB J/Secure
- Mastercard Identity Check
- Visa Secure

Relaxed Requirements for Address Data and Expiration Date in Payment Transactions

Split Shipments Processing
- Authorizing a Sale for a Product Not Yet Available
- Processing Two Authorizations and a Capture for Multiple Products
- Processing an Authorization and Two Captures for Multiple Products

Processing Payments Using Credentials
- Additional Resources for Credentialed Transactions
- Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File
  - Storing Customer Credentials with a CIT and PAN
  - Retrieving Stored Customer Credentials During a CIT
- Delayed Transaction
  - Merchant-Initiated Delayed Transaction with PAN
- Incremental Transaction
  - Merchant-Initiated Incremental Transaction with PAN
- No-Show Transactions
  - Merchant-Initiated No-Show Transactions with PAN
- Reauthorization Transaction
  - Merchant-Initiated Reauthorization Transactions with PAN
- Resubmission Transaction
  - Merchant-Initiated Resubmission Transaction with PAN
- Installment Payments
  - Customer-Initiated Installment Payments with PAN
  - Merchant-Initiated Installment Payments with PAN
- Recurring Payments
  - Customer-Initiated Recurring Payment with PAN
- Mastercard Standing Order Payments
  - Mastercard Initial CIT Standing Order Payment
- Mastercard Subscription Payments
  - Mastercard CIT Initial Subscription Payment
- Unscheduled COF Payments
  - Customer-Initiated Unscheduled COF Payment with PAN
  - Merchant-Initiated Unscheduled COF Payments with PAN

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Recent Revisions to This Document

25.09.01

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

25.08.01

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

25.07.01

PayPak Cards: Added PayPak cards. See Card Types.

25.05.01

International Transaction Compliance: Added a section about international transaction compliance. See Compliance.

25.04.01

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

25.03

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

25.02

Incremental Authorizations: Added an optional field. See Optional Field for Processing an Incremental Authorization.

25.01

Added a testing section. See Testing the Payment Services.

Marketplace Transactions with Foreign Retailers: Added authorizations and captures. See these sections:
Marketplace Authorizations with Foreign Retailers
Marketplace Captures with Foreign Retailers
Credentialed Transactions: Removed Mastercard required field for retrieving customer credentials during a CIT request. See Card-Specific Required Field for Retrieving Customer Credentials During a CIT.; Added new country-specific fields for requesting a subsequent installment payment. See Country-Specific Required Fields for Installment Payments with Mastercard or Visa Card.

24.14

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.13

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.12

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.11

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.10

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

24.09

This revision contains only editorial changes and no technical updates.

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