This appendix describes the SCMP (Simple Commerce Message Protocol) API fields that you can use to access Verification Services. SCMP API is a legacy name-value pair API that is supported for merchants who have already implemented it. If you are new to Cybersource and want to connect to services, use the Simple Order API.
Unless otherwise noted, all fields are order and case insensitive, and they accept special characters such as @, #, and %.
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Request-level and offer-level field names and values must not contain carets (^) or colons (:). However, they can contain embedded spaces and any other printable characters. If you use more than one consecutive space, the extra spaces are removed. |
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Data Type |
Description |
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Date and time |
The format is YYYY-MM-DDThhmmssZ. For example, 2012-08-11T224757Z is equal to August 11, 2012, at 10:45:57 P.M. The T separates the date and the time. The Z indicates Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is also known as Greenwich Mean Time. |
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Decimal |
Number that includes a decimal point. Examples: 23.45, -0.1, 4.0, 90809.0468. |
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Integer |
Whole number {…, 03, 02, 01, 0, 1, 2, 3, …}. |
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Nonnegative integer |
Whole number greater than or equal to zero {0, 1, 2, 3, …}. |
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Positive integer |
Whole number greater than zero {1, 2, 3, …}. |
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String |
Sequence of letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters, such as @ and #. |