Balance Inquiry
Request to retrieve the available balance for a gift card.
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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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String
= BALANCE_INQUIRY
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
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, '-', '_'
Upper case alphabetic text
REQUIRED
The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
Container for fields that control the response returned for the request.
String
OPTIONAL
Indicates how sensitive data is returned in the response.
Data can consist of any characters
ASCII Text
OPTIONAL
Identifier of the payment session containing values for any of the request fields to be used in this operation.
Values provided in the request will override values contained in the session.
Data consists of ASCII characters
ASCII Text
OPTIONAL
Use this field to implement optimistic locking of the session content.
Do this if you make business decisions based on data from the session and wish to ensure that the same data is being used for the request operation.
To use optimistic locking, record session.version when you make your decisions, and then pass that value in session.version when you submit your request operation to the gateway.
If session.version provided by you does not match that stored against the session, the gateway will reject the operation with error.cause=INVALID_REQUEST.
See Making Business Decisions Based on Session Content.
Data consists of ASCII characters
Information about the payment type selected by the payer for this payment and the source of the funds.
Depending on the payment type the source of the funds can be a debit or credit card, bank account, or account with a browser payment provider (such as PayPal).
For card payments the source of funds information may be represented by combining one or more of the following: explicitly provided card details, a session identifier which the gateway will use to look up the card details and/or a card token. Precedence rules will be applied in that explicitly provided card details will override session card details which will override card token details. Each of these may represent partial card details, however the combination must result in a full and complete set of card details. See Using Multiple Sources of Card Details for examples.
Information about the source of funds when it is directly provided (as opposed to via a token or session).
For browser payments, the source of funds details are usually collected from the payer on the payment provider's website and provided to you when you retrieve the transaction details (for a successful transaction). However, for some payment types (such as giropay), you must collect the information from the payer and supply it here.
If the payer chose to pay using a gift card, you must submit sourceOfFunds.type=GIFT_CARD and provide the payer's gift card details in this parameter group.
String
OPTIONAL
Do not provide this field in your request unless instructed to do so by your payment service provider.
The field is required, if your gift card numbers do not use ISO BIN rules and therefore not allowing the gateway to identify the local brand.
Data can consist of any characters
Digits
OPTIONAL
Card number as printed or embossed on the gift card.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.
Digits
OPTIONAL
PIN number for the gift card.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9.
Alphanumeric
OPTIONAL
Uniquely identifies a card and associated details.
Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z
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ASCII Text
CONDITIONAL
Value as generated by the acquirer that summarizes the success or otherwise of the proposed operation.
Data consists of ASCII characters
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
Decimal
CONDITIONAL
The available balance on the card.
This is the amount available to the payer to spend using this gift card after this payment.
A sequence of digits 0-9 separated by a '.' as a decimal indicator. Leading and trailing zeroes are optional. If the fractional part is zero, the '.' and following zero(es) can be omitted. (For a complete description, see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal.)
Upper case alphabetic text
CONDITIONAL
The currency of available balance on the card expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
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, '-', '_'
Upper case alphabetic text
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The currency of the order expressed as an ISO 4217 alpha code, e.g. USD.
Data must consist of the characters A-Z
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 payer
ACQUIRER_SYSTEM_ERROR
Acquirer system error occurred processing the transaction
APPROVED
Transaction Approved
APPROVED_PENDING_SETTLEMENT
Transaction Approved - pending batch settlement
AUTHENTICATION_FAILED
Payer authentication failed
BLOCKED
Transaction blocked due to Risk or 3D Secure blocking rules
CANCELLED
Transaction cancelled by payer
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
Enumeration
ALWAYS PROVIDED
A system-generated high level overall result of the 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
A gift card was used.
The payer's gift card details are provided in this parameter group.
Enumeration
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The brand name used to describe the card that is recognized and accepted globally.
For many major card types this will match the scheme name.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
LOCAL_BRAND_ONLY
The card does not have a global brand.
String
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The brand name used to describe a card as determined by the gateway, based on the BIN range of the card.
Data can consist of any characters
Masked digits
ALWAYS PROVIDED
Card number as printed or embossed on the gift card.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9, plus 'x' for masking
Masked digits
CONDITIONAL
PIN number for the gift card.
Data is a string that consists of the characters 0-9, plus 'x' for masking
Enumeration
ALWAYS PROVIDED
The organization that owns a card brand and defines operating regulations for its use.
Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.
OTHER
The scheme of the card used in the transaction could not be identified.
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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.