Create Payment Page Session
Request to create a session identifier for the hosted payment. The session identifier when included in the payment page request allows you to return the payer to the merchant's website after completing the payment attempt.
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This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:
- Certificate authentication.
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To authenticate to the API two additional NVP parameters must be supplied in the request.
Provide 'merchant.
<your gateway merchant ID>' in the apiUsername field and your API password in the apiPassword field.
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Information about any actions which apply to this transaction.
Specify actions if you wish to change the default behaviour of the transaction.
Enumeration
OPTIONAL
The risk rules you wish to bypass when performing risk assessment for an order.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
ALL
String
= CREATE_PAYMENT_PAGE_SESSION
FIXED
Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.
Information about any constraints which apply to this transaction.
Specify constraints to ensure the transaction conforms to pre-defined criteria. This is useful when your integration does not directly collect all the transaction values. For example - a session based integration or hosted payment page integration.
Information about the payment plan constraints which apply for this transaction.
Specify payment plan constraints to restrict the available payment plan options for this transaction.
Integer
OPTIONAL
The allowable number of deferral months for the payment plan.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
Integer
OPTIONAL
The allowable number of installments for the payment plan.
A number comprising the digits 0-9, having at least one digit. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#nonNegativeInteger.)
String
OPTIONAL
The identifiers for the payment plans supported for this transaction.
If you wish to offer any payment plans to the payer, provide the plan identifiers in this field else pass it as empty.
See Payment Plans for the supported payment plans and their identifiers.
Data can consist of any 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
The unique identifier issued to you by your payment provider.
This identifier can be up to 12 characters in length.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'
Information about the order associated with this transaction.
Decimal
REQUIRED
The total amount for the order.
If you provide both this value and any of the sub-total amounts (order.itemAmount, order.shippingAndHandlingAmount, order.taxAmount) then the sum of the sub-total amounts MUST equal the order.amount.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.
Upper case alphabetic text
REQUIRED
The currency of the transaction expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
String
REQUIRED
A unique identifier for this order to distinguish it from any other order you create.
Use this identifier when referring to this order in subsequent transactions and in retrieval operations. This value must be unique for every order you create using your merchant profile.
Data can consist of any characters
Container for fields that control the payer's interaction on the payment page.
Boolean
OPTIONAL
Indicates if you wish to bypass payer authentication using the 3-D Secure Service.
By default, the payer is prompted to authenticate before performing the payment if configured for the 3-D Secure Service.
The values 'true' or 'false'. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#boolean.)
URI
OPTIONAL
The URL to which you want to redirect the payer's browser if they cancel their payment.
This could be a link to the payer's shopping cart, or the home page of your website.
Data must be an absolute URI conforming to the URI syntax published by IETF RFC 2396. The following schemes are forbidden : javascript
URI
OPTIONAL
The URL to which you want to return the payer after completing the payment attempt.
During the redirect, the gateway will append a resultIndicator parameter to this URL. This parameter determines the result of the payment. See Obtain the Payment Result section.
Data must be an absolute URI conforming to the URI syntax published by IETF RFC 2396. The following schemes are forbidden : javascript
Information about this transaction.
Enumeration
OPTIONAL
Indicates the source through which you received the transaction.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
CALL_CENTRE
Transaction conducted via a call centre.
CARD_PRESENT
Transaction where the card is presented to the merchant.
INTERNET
Transaction conducted over the Internet.
MAIL_ORDER
Transaction received by mail.
MOTO
Transaction received by mail or telephone.
TELEPHONE_ORDER
Transaction received by telephone.
VOICE_RESPONSE
Transaction conducted by a voice/DTMF recognition system.
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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
The unique identifier issued to you by your payment provider.
This identifier can be up to 12 characters in length.
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 session identifier for the hosted payment.
Include this identifier in the payment page request if you wish to return the payer to the merchant's website after completing the payment attempt.
Data consists of ASCII characters
ASCII Text
ALWAYS PROVIDED
An identifier to determine the success of the hosted payment.
The gateway will return this value in the resultIndicator parameter (appended to the returnUrl) for successful payments only. See Obtain the Payment Result section.
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 name of the field that failed validation.
This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.
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
Indicates the type of field validation error.
This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
INVALID
The request contained a field with a value that did not pass validation.
MISSING
The request was missing a mandatory field.
UNSUPPORTED
The request contained a field that is unsupported.
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.