Create Session
Request to create a Form Session. A Form Session is used by the Hosted Payment Form service to temporarily store card details so that the merchant does not need to handle these details directly. A Form Session is created using this command so that it is available to be updated directly by the cardholder with their card details. These card details may then be used by the merchant (for payment or another type of operation) by referring to the session.
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This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:
- Certificate authentication.
- API password. An additional NVP parameter, apiPassword, must be supplied in the request containing your password for using the API.
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String
= CREATE_SESSION
FIXED
Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.
String
OPTIONAL
A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.
The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric + additional characters
REQUIRED
Your identifier issued to you by your provider.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'
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String
CONDITIONAL
A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.
The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.
Data can consist of any characters
Alphanumeric + additional characters
ALWAYS PROVIDED
Your identifier issued to you by your provider.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'
Enumeration
ALWAYS PROVIDED
A system-generated high level overall result of the transaction/operation.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
FAILURE
The operation was declined or rejected by the gateway, acquirer or issuer
PENDING
The operation is currently in progress or pending processing
SUCCESS
The operation was successfully processed
UNKNOWN
The result of the operation is unknown
ASCII Text
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The identifier for the payment session.
You can add request fields to the session using a Hosted Payment Form or wallet provider interaction, or the Update Session operation.
Data consists of ASCII characters
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Information on possible error conditions that may occur while processing an operation using the API.
Enumeration
Broadly categorizes the cause of the error.
For example, errors may occur due to invalid requests or internal system failures.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
INVALID_REQUEST
The request was rejected because it did not conform to the API protocol.
REQUEST_REJECTED
The request was rejected due to security reasons such as firewall rules, expired certificate, etc.
SERVER_BUSY
The server did not have enough resources to process the request at the moment.
SERVER_FAILED
There was an internal system failure.
String
Textual description of the error based on the cause.
This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST or SERVER_BUSY.
Data can consist of any characters
String
Indicates the code that helps the support team to quickly identify the exact cause of the error.
This field is returned only if the cause is SERVER_FAILED or REQUEST_REJECTED.
Data can consist of any characters
Enumeration
A system-generated high level overall result of the operation.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ERROR
The operation resulted in an error and hence cannot be processed.