API Overview

Payments Developer Guide
- Recent Revisions to This Document

Introduction to Payments
- Financial Institutions and Payment Networks
  - Merchant Financial Institutions (Acquirers)
  - Customer Financial Institutions (Issuers)
  - Payment Networks
  - Payment Processors
- Card Types
  - Credit Cards
  - Debit Cards
- Transaction Types
  - Card-Not-Present Transactions
  - Authorizations with Card Verification Numbers
    - CVN Locations and Terminology
  - International Transactions
    - Compliance
    - Merchant Remittance Funding
- Payment Services
  - Authorizations
    - Micropayment Authorizations
    - Online Authorizations
    - Offline Authorizations
    - Incremental Authorizations
      - Scenario for the Incremental Authorization Service
    - Pre-Authorizations
    - Authorization Workflow
  - Sales
    - Dual-Message Processing
      - Partial Authorizations
    - Single-Message Processing
  - Captures
    - Capture Workflow
  - Credits
    - Credit Workflow
  - Voids
- Payment Features
  - Debit and Prepaid Card Payments
  - Payer Authentication
  - Introduction to Credentialed Transactions
- Testing the Payment Services
  - Requirements for Testing
  - Test Card Numbers
  - Using Amounts to Simulate Errors
  - Test American Express Card Verification

Standard Payment Processing
- Basic Authorizations
  - Declined Authorizations
  - Required Fields for Processing a Basic Authorization
    - Country-Specific Required Fields for Processing a Basic Authorization
  - Simple Order Example: Processing a Basic Authorization
- Authorizations with Line Items
  - Optional Line Item Fields
  - Required Fields for Processing an Authorization with Line Items
    - Country-Specific Required Fields for Processing an Authorization with Line Items
  - Simple Order Example: Processing an Authorization with Line Items
- Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens
  - Required Fields for Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens
  - Optional Fields for Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens
  - Simple Order API Example: Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens
- Authorizations with a Card Verification Number
  - Required Fields for Processing an Authorization with a Card Verification Number
  - Optional Fields for Processing an Authorization with a Card Verification Number
  - Simple Order Example: Processing an Authorization with a Card Verification Number
- Pre-Authorizations
  - Required Fields for a Pre-Authorization
    - Country-Specific Required Fields for Processing a Pre-Authorization
  - Simple Order Example: Processing a Pre-Authorization
- Sales
  - Required Fields for Processing a Sale
  - Simple Order Example: Processing a Sale
- Sales with Payment Network Tokens
  - Required Fields for Sales with Payment Network Tokens
  - Optional Fields for Sales with Payment Network Tokens
  - Simple Order API Example: Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens
- Captures
  - Required Fields for Capturing an Authorization
  - Simple Order Example: Capturing an Authorization
- Follow-On Credits
  - Required Fields for Processing a Follow-On Credit
  - Simple Order Example: Processing a Follow-On Credit
- Voids for a Capture or Credit
  - Required Fields for Voiding a Capture or Credit
  - Simple Order API Example: Voiding a Capture or Credit

Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Additional Resources for Debit and Prepaid Payments
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
  - Required Fields for Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
    - Country Specific Required Fields to Process Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
  - Optional Field for Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
  - Simple Order Example: Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
- Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Required Fields for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Optional Field for Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Simple Order Example: Enabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
- Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Required Field for Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Optional Field for Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations
  - Simple Order Example: Disabling Debit and Prepaid Partial Authorizations

Payer Authentication Processing
- Additional Resources for Payer Authentication
- Providing Payer Authentication Information for Authorization
- Mastercard Identity Check
  - Required Fields for Processing an Authorization Using Mastercard Identity Check
  - Simple Order Example: Processing an Authorization Using Mastercard Identity Check
- Visa Secure
  - Required Fields for Processing an Authorization Using Visa Secure
  - Simple Order Example: Validating and Authorizing an Authorization

Processing Payments Using Credentials
- Additional Resources for Credentialed Transactions
- Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File
  - Storing Customer Credentials with a CIT and PAN
    - Required Fields for Storing Customer Credentials During a CIT
    - Simple Order Example: Storing Customer Credentials During a CIT
  - Retrieving Stored Customer Credentials During a CIT
    - Required Fields for Retrieving Customer Credentials During a Customer-Initiated Transaction
      - Card-Specific Required Field for Retrieving Customer Credentials During a CIT
    - Simple Order Example: Retrieving Customer Credentials During a CIT

Required Fields for Authorizations with Payment Network Tokens

Use these required fields for processing an authorization with payment network tokens.

billTo.email
billTo.firstName
billTo.lastName
billTo.street1
ccAuthService.networkTokenCryptogram
purchaseTotals.currency
purchaseTotals.grandTotalAmount
token.expirationMonth
token.expirationYear

Related Information

API field reference guide for the Simple Order API