Payments Developer Guide

This section describes how to use this guide and where to find further information.
Audience and Purpose
This guide is written for application developers who want to use the
REST API
 to integrate payment card processing into an order management system.
Implementing the
Cybersource
 payment services requires software development skills. You must write code that uses the API request and response fields to integrate the credit card services into your existing order management system.
Conventions
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Important
 statement contains information essential to successfully completing a task or learning a concept.
WARNING
A
Warning
 contains information or instructions, which, if not heeded, can result in a security risk, irreversible loss of data, or significant cost in time or revenue or both.
Related Documentation
Visit the
Cybersource
 documentation hub to find additional processor-specific versions of this guide and additional technical documentation.
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Recent Revisions to This Document

25.05.01

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

25.04.01

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25.03

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25.02

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25.01

Added a testing section. See Testing the Payment Services.
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.

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24.07

Pre-Authorizations
Added pre-authorization processing. See Pre-Authorizations.