Developer's Guide

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Submitting Credit Card Transactions
Submitting Account Verifications
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Submitting Account Verifications
Account verifications, also known as zero-amount authorizations, are used for verifying the
validity of customer credit card information. TRXTYPE=A is required for both account
verifications and for normal authorization transactions; however, account verifications are
different from normal authorizations in the following ways:
For account verifications, pass a zero AMT. If you pass any other amount, the transaction
becomes a normal authorization that places a hold on the cardholder's open-to-buy limit.
In account verifications, even if the RESULT value returned is 0 (Approved), the RESPMSG
value returned is Verified instead of Approved.
NOTE: Payflow returns RESULT value 4, Invalid Amount, if the processor does not support
account verifications.
When To Use Account Verifications
Use account verifications to validate account numbers and other authentication elements such
as CVV2 and AVS.
Account verifications cannot be voided, captured, or refunded. Attempting to do so results in a
declined transaction, RESULT=12.
A reference transaction can be based on a successful account verification transaction and used
to charge the customers verified account. See “Submitting Reference Transactions
(Tokenization)” on page 75.
Required Account Verification Parameters
To perform an account verification, pass the following parameters:
SHIPTOCITY (Optional) Ship-to city.
Limitations: 20-character string.
SHIPTOSTATE (Optional) Ship-to state.
Limitations: 2-character string.
SHIPTOZIP (Optional) Ship-to postal code.
Limitations: 9-character string.
SHIPTOCOUNTRY (Optional) Ship-to country. The Payflow API accepts 3-digit numeric country codes.
Refer to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.
Limitations: 3-character country code.
Parameter Description