Authorize with a Session

Request to obtain an authorization for a proposed funds transfer. See "Transaction: Authorize" for more details. The card details to be used in the transaction are specified in the Form Session identified in the request. The Form Session may only be used for this operation if the card holder has added valid card details to the Session by posting their details via the Hosted Payment Form.

PUT https://test-nbkpayment.mtf.gateway.mastercard.com/api/rest/version/2 / merchant / {merchantid} / order / {orderid} / transaction / {transactionid}

Authentication Copied to clipboard

This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:


  • Certificate authentication.
  • Basic HTTP authentication as described at w3.org. To authenticate to the API, leave the userid portion (to the left of the colon) blank and fill the password section with the API password provided to you.

Request Copied to clipboard

URL Parameters Copied to clipboard

{merchantid} Copied to clipboard Alphanumeric + additional characters REQUIRED

Your identifier issued to you by your provider.


Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
{orderid} Copied to clipboard Integer REQUIRED

The unique identifier of the order, to distinguish it from any other order you ever issue.


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.)

Min value: 10000000000 Max value: 9999999999999999
{transactionid} Copied to clipboard String REQUIRED

The unique identifier of the transaction, to distinguish it from other transactions on the order.


Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40

Fields Copied to clipboard

action Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL
action.bypassMerchantRiskRules Copied to clipboard 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
apiOperation Copied to clipboard String = AUTHORIZE FIXED

Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.

billing Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL
billing.address.city Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The city portion of the billing address.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
billing.address.country Copied to clipboard Upper case alphabetic text OPTIONAL

The 3 character ISO standard alpha country code of the billing address.

Data must consist of the characters A-Z

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
billing.address.postcodeZip Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The Postal/Zip code of the billing address.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 9
billing.address.stateProvince Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The State/Province code of the billing address.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 20
billing.address.street Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The street name and number of the billing address.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
billing.phone Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The phone number of the person that the bill is being sent to.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 20
card.holder Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL
card.holder.firstName Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The first name of the person that the bill is being sent to.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 50
card.holder.fullName Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The full name of the person that the bill is being sent to.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
card.holder.lastName Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The last name or surname of the person that the bill is being sent to.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 50
card.holder.middleName Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The middle name of the person that the bill is being sent to.

If there is more than one middle name, this is the first middle name.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 50
card.holder.title Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The title of the person that the bill is being sent to.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 0 Max length: 20
correlationId Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
customer Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL
customer.ipAddress Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The IP address of the computer used by the cardholder, format: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 7 Max length: 15
order Copied to clipboard OPTIONAL
order.reference Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The identifier of the order.

For example, a shopping cart number, an order number, or an invoice number.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
session Copied to clipboard ASCII Text REQUIRED

Session carrying the card details to be used.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 31 Max length: 35
transaction Copied to clipboard REQUIRED
transaction.amount Copied to clipboard Decimal REQUIRED

Transaction Amount.

Expressed as a decimal number in the units of the currency. For example 12.34 in USD is the amount 12 dollars and 34 cents.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9 and '.' and represents a valid decimal number.

Min length: 1 Max length: 14
transaction.currency Copied to clipboard Upper case alphabetic text REQUIRED

The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code.

Data must consist of the characters A-Z

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
transaction.reference Copied to clipboard String OPTIONAL

The identifier of the transaction, to distinguish it from all transactions you ever issue on any order.

For example, a shopping cart number or an invoice number.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40

Response Copied to clipboard

Fields Copied to clipboard

card Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL
card.bankAccountType Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The type of bank account the cardholder wishes to use for the transaction.

For example, Savings or Check.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

CHECK
SAVINGS
card.cardSequenceNumber Copied to clipboard Digits CONDITIONAL

The card sequence number for transactions where the data is read through a chip on the EMV card.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
card.expiry Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL

The expiry date as it appears on the card.

card.expiry.month Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Month, as shown on the card.

Months are numbered January=1, through to December=12.

Data is a number between 1 and 12 represented as a string.

card.expiry.year Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Year, as shown on the card.

The Common Era year is 2000 plus this value.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 2 Max length: 2
card.issueNumber Copied to clipboard Digits CONDITIONAL

The issue number embossed onto the card, for cards such as Maestro.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 0 Max length: 2
card.number Copied to clipboard Masked digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

The account number embossed onto the card with your masking settings applied or 6.4 whichever is more restrictive e.g. 000000xxxxxx0000.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9, plus 'x' for masking

Min length: 9 Max length: 19
card.securityCodePresence Copied to clipboard Alphanumeric CONDITIONAL

The code used to indicate the existence of the Card Security Code value.

Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z

Min length: 1 Max length: 2
card.start Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL

The start date as it appears on the card.

card.start.month Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Month, as shown on the card.

Months are numbered January=1, through to December=12.

Data is a number between 1 and 12 represented as a string.

card.start.year Copied to clipboard Digits ALWAYS PROVIDED

Year, as shown on the card.

The Common Era year is 2000 plus this value.

Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.

Min length: 2 Max length: 2
card.token Copied to clipboard Alphanumeric CONDITIONAL

Uniquely identifies a card and associated details.

May be the token provided by the merchant, or a system-generated value. A system-generated token is 16 digits long, starts with 9, and is in the format of 9nnnnnnnnnnnnnnC, where n represents any number, and C represents a check digit such that the token will conform to the Luhn algorithm.

Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
card.type Copied to clipboard Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

Card type of the supplied card.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

AMEX
AMEX_PURCHASE_CARD
BANAMEX_COSTCO
CARNET
CARTE_BANCAIRE
COSTCO_MEMBER_CREDIT
DINERS_CLUB
DISCOVER
EBT
ELO
FARMERS_CARD
JCB
LASER
MAESTRO
MASTERCARD
MASTERCARD_PURCHASE_CARD
OTHER
PRIVATE_LABEL_CARD
Q_CARD
RUPAY
SORIANA
TRUE_REWARDS
UATP
VISA
VISA_DEBIT
VISA_PURCHASE_CARD
correlationId Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
merchant Copied to clipboard 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, '-', '_'

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
order Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED

Information about the order

order.id Copied to clipboard Integer ALWAYS PROVIDED

The unique identifier of the order, that distinguishes it from any other order you ever issue.

JSON number data type, restricted to being positive or zero. In addition, the represented number may have no fractional part.

Min value: 0 Max value: 9999999999999999
order.reference Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The value provided by you to identify the order.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 200
order.totalAuthorizedAmount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The transaction amount

Data is a decimal number.

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
order.totalCapturedAmount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The transaction amount

Data is a decimal number.

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
order.totalRefundedAmount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

The transaction amount

Data is a decimal number.

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
response Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED
response.3dsecure.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The status codes used by the Payment Gateway to show whether the payment authentication was successful or not.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ACS_TIMEOUT

Session timed out. The card holder did not return from the issuer/ACS

AUTHENTICATED

Authentication successful

AUTHENTICATION_ATTEMPTED

Authentication was attempted, but could not be completed.

CARD_NOT_SUPPORTED

Card does not support 3D Secure authentication

DS_AUTHENTICATION_FAILED

Merchant ID and Password failed authentication with the Directory Server (Contact Support to rectify)

DS_COMMUNICATION_ERROR

Error communicating with the Directory Server

INTERNAL_ERROR

Internal processing error

NOT_AUTHENTICATED

Authentication failed

NOT_ENROLLED

Card holder is not enrolled

PARSE_ERROR

Error parsing response

REQUEST_INVALID

The request is missing fields or an error exists in the format

SIGNATURE_ERROR

Error validating signature on response

UNDETERMINED

Authentication could not be completed

response.acquirerCode Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

Value as generated by the acquirer that summarizes the success or otherwise of the proposed operation.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
response.acquirerMessage Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

The response from the acquirer in the text form.

This field is used in addition to response.acquirerCode for some acquirers where additional information needs to be communicated. For example, contact details to allow the merchant to contact the issuer directly to seek authorisation for the transaction.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 255
response.avs Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL
response.avs.acquirerCode Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

The acquirer AVS response code generated by the card issuing institution.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
response.avs.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The address verification result generated to indicate whether the address data supplied matches the data held by the cardholder's issuing bank.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ADDRESS_MATCH

Street address matched

ADDRESS_ZIP_MATCH

Street address and zip/postcode were matched

NAME_ADDRESS_MATCH

Card holder name and street address matched

NAME_MATCH

Card holder name matched

NAME_ZIP_MATCH

Card holder name and zip/postcode matched

NOT_AVAILABLE

No data available from issuer or AVS data not supported for transaction

NOT_REQUESTED

AVS not requested

NOT_VERIFIED

AVS could not be verified for an international transaction

NO_MATCH

No match

SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE_RETRY

Issuer system is unavailable. Retry can be attempted

SERVICE_NOT_SUPPORTED

Service currently not supported by acquirer or merchant

ZIP_MATCH

Zip/postcode matched. Street address not matched

response.cardSecurityCode Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL
response.cardSecurityCode.acquirerCode Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

The acquirer CSC response code generated by the card issuing institution.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
response.cardSecurityCode.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The card security code result generated to indicate whether the data supplied matches the data held by the cardholder's issuing bank.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

MATCH

Valid or matched.

NOT_PRESENT

Merchant indicated CSC not present on card.

NOT_PROCESSED

Not processed.

NOT_SUPPORTED

Card issuer is not registered and/or certified

NO_MATCH

Invalid or not matched.

response.debugInformation Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The container for additional information about a transaction.

Only returned for some errors and is dependent on the merchant's configuration. Returned in error, declined and approved scenarios, but would only be used to trouble shoot issues.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 2064
response.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

Summary of the success or otherwise of the proposed operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ABORTED

Transaction aborted by card holder

ACQUIRER_SYSTEM_ERROR

Acquirer system error occurred processing the transaction

APPROVED

Transaction Approved

AUTHENTICATION_FAILED

Payer authentication failed

BLOCKED

Transaction blocked due to Risk or 3D Secure blocking rules

CANCELLED

Transaction cancelled by card holder

DECLINED

The requested operation was not successful. For example, a payment was declined by issuer or payer authentication was not able to be successfully completed.

DECLINED_AVS

Transaction declined due to address verification

DECLINED_AVS_CSC

Transaction declined due to address verification and card security code

DECLINED_CSC

Transaction declined due to card security code

DECLINED_DO_NOT_CONTACT

Transaction declined - do not contact issuer

DECLINED_PAYMENT_PLAN

Transaction declined due to payment plan

DEFERRED_TRANSACTION_RECEIVED

Deferred transaction received and awaiting processing

DUPLICATE_BATCH

Transaction declined due to duplicate batch

EXCEEDED_RETRY_LIMIT

Transaction retry limit exceeded

EXPIRED_CARD

Transaction declined due to expired card

INSUFFICIENT_FUNDS

Transaction declined due to insufficient funds

INVALID_CSC

Invalid card security code

LOCK_FAILURE

Order locked - another transaction is in progress for this order

NOT_ENROLLED_3D_SECURE

Card holder is not enrolled in 3D Secure

NOT_SUPPORTED

Transaction type not supported

PENDING

Transaction is pending

REFERRED

Transaction declined - refer to issuer

SUBMITTED

The transaction has successfully been created in the gateway. It is either awaiting submission to the acquirer or has been submitted to the acquirer but the gateway has not yet received a response about the success or otherwise of the payment.

SYSTEM_ERROR

Internal system error occurred processing the transaction

TIMED_OUT

The gateway has timed out the request to the acquirer because it did not receive a response. You can handle the transaction as a declined transaction. Where possible the gateway will attempt to reverse the transaction.

UNKNOWN

The transaction has been submitted to the acquirer but the gateway was not able to find out about the success or otherwise of the payment. If the gateway subsequently finds out about the success of the payment it will update the response code.

UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE

Transaction could not be processed

response.risk Copied to clipboard CONDITIONAL
response.risk.gatewayCode Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The overall result of risk assessment returned by the Payment Gateway for each authorization or pay transaction.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ACCEPT

Order accepted

NOT_CHECKED

Merchant risk rules were not checked and system rules did not reject the Order

REJECT

Order rejected

REVIEW

Order marked for review

SYSTEM_REJECT

Order rejected due to system rule

response.risk.reversalTransactionResult Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The result of order reversal for each authorization or pay transaction that occurred due to risk assessment.

Orders rejected after the financial transaction due to risk assessment are automatically reversed by the system.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

FAIL

The attempt to Backout failed.

NOT_APPLICABLE

Backout was not possible (eg backout not supported)

OKAY

The attempt to Backout succeeded.

response.risk.reviewResult Copied to clipboard Enumeration CONDITIONAL

The decision made when the overall risk result returns Review.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

NOT_REQUIRED

No review required

ORDER_CANCELLED

The order has been cancelled and a reversal transaction was attempted

ORDER_RELEASED

The order has been released for processing

PENDING

A decision to release/cancel the order is pending

result Copied to clipboard 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

transaction Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED
transaction.acquirer Copied to clipboard ALWAYS PROVIDED
transaction.acquirer.date Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The date the transaction was processed, as returned by the acquirer.

Not returned by most acquirers.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 4000
transaction.acquirer.id Copied to clipboard String ALWAYS PROVIDED

The ID for the acquirer used to process the transaction.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
transaction.acquirer.time Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The time the transaction was processed, as returned by the acquirer.

Not returned by most acquirers.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 4000
transaction.amount Copied to clipboard Decimal ALWAYS PROVIDED

Transaction Amount.

Expressed as a decimal number in the units of the currency. For example 12.34 in USD is the amount 12 dollars and 34 cents.

Data is a decimal number.

Max value: 1000000000000 Min value: 0 Max post-decimal digits: 3
transaction.authorizationCode Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

Value generated by the issuing bank in response to a proposal to transfer funds.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
transaction.batch Copied to clipboard Integer CONDITIONAL

The batch in which the transaction was processed.

JSON number data type, restricted to being positive or zero. In addition, the represented number may have no fractional part.

Min value: 1 Max value: 2147483647
transaction.currency Copied to clipboard Alphanumeric ALWAYS PROVIDED

The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alphanumeric code.

Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z

Min length: 3 Max length: 3
transaction.id Copied to clipboard String ALWAYS PROVIDED

The unique identifier of the transaction, that distinguishes it from other transactions on the order.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
transaction.receipt Copied to clipboard ASCII Text CONDITIONAL

A unique reference generated by the acquirer for a specific merchant interaction.

The reference may be used when contacting the acquirer about a specific transaction.

Data consists of ASCII characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
transaction.reference Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The value provided by you to identify the transaction within all orders.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
transaction.terminal Copied to clipboard String CONDITIONAL

The terminal configured at the processor/acquirer used to process the transaction.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 16
transaction.type Copied to clipboard Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

Indicates the type of action performed on the order.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

AUTHORIZATION

Authorization

CAPTURE

Capture

PAYMENT

Payment (Purchase)

REFUND

Refund

VOID_AUTHORIZATION

Void Authorization

VOID_CAPTURE

Void Capture

VOID_PAYMENT

Void Payment

VOID_REFUND

Void Refund

Errors Copied to clipboard

error Copied to clipboard

Information on possible error conditions that may occur while processing an operation using the API.

error.cause Copied to clipboard 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.

error.explanation Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 1000
error.supportCode Copied to clipboard 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

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
result Copied to clipboard 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.