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Credit Card Transactions
Submitting Sale Transactions
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Submitting Sale Transactions
The Sale transaction (TRXTYPE=S) charges the specified amount against the account, and
marks the transaction for immediate fund transfer during the next settlement period. PayPal
submits each merchant’s transactions for settlement on a daily basis.
When To Use a Sale Transaction
A Sale transaction is best suited to businesses that provide immediate fulfillment for their
products or services. If your business does not provide immediate fulfillment, then credit card
association rules recommend that you use an Authorization and a Delayed Capture transaction.
For details, see “Submitting Authorization/Delayed Capture Transactions” on page 29. If you
need to recharge a credit card and you are not storing the credit card information in your local
database, you can perform a new reference transaction based on a Sale transaction.
Additional Parameters For Sale Transactions
To perform a Sale transaction, you are required to pass the following parameters:
z ACCT
z AMT
z EXPDATE
N OTE: The pinless debit tender type requires essentially the same parameters as a credit card
transaction. In addition to the values required by all transactions, you must pass values
for the ACCT and AMT parameters. The First Data Merchant Services (FDMS) South
processing platform supports Sale and Credit transactions only.
Typical Sale Transaction Parameter String
The following is a typical PARMLIST string passed in a Sale transaction.
TRXTYPE=S&TENDER=C&USER=SuperUser&PWD=SuperUserPassword&VENDOR=SuperUser&PA
RTNER=PayPal&ACCT=5105105105105100&EXPDATE=1209&CVV2=123&AMT=99.00&FIRSTNAM
E=John&LASTNAME=Smith&STREET=123 Main St.&CITY=San
Jose&STATE=CA&ZIP=12345&COMMENT1=Reservation&INVNUM=1234567890&PONUM=C12345
&CVV2=567&VERBOSITY=MEDIUM
Note that, besides the required parameters that you pass in a Sale transaction, this string
includes other typical parameters. The COMMENT1 (and COMMENT2) fields help to track
transaction information. The customer’s street address (STREET) and ZIP should be passed to
use address verification service. CVV2 is needed for card security code validation. For details
on address verification service and card security code, see the following sections:
z “Submitting Card-Present (SWIPE) Transactions” on page 41
z “Card Security Code Validation” on page 44