Transaction Administration - Check Card


(Charges card for specificed amount. Then voids transaction, if successful. Returns authorization result with AVS and/or CVV2 response.)

Variable Required Max Size Notes
publisher-name Mandatory NA Gateway account username issued to you.
publisher-password Mandatory NA Remote Client Password - This is different then the password used to login.
mode Mandatory NA Value needs to be set to ‘checkcard’
card-number Mandatory 16 Credit Card # - Numeric characters only.Format: 4111111111111111
card-exp Mandatory 5 Credit Card Expiration Date.Format: MM/YY
card-amount Optional 4 Amount you want to check the card for. Default’s to ‘1.00’ if not specified (see Note 1).

Notes:

  1. The amount specified within the ‘card-amount’ field must be no less than ‘0.50’ and no greater than ‘20.00’. If you do not specify the card-amount or if the amount is outside the min/max amount limits provided, the system will automatically default to ‘1.00’.

Response Values - Card Check Transaction

Variable Value Notes
FinalStatus success/badcard/problem/fraud success - Transaction was successful.badcard - Transaction failed due to decline from processor.problem - Transaction failed due to problem unrelated to credit card.fraud - Transaction failed due to failure or FraudTrak2 filter setting.
VoidStatus success/problem success - Void of transaction was successful.problem - Void of transaction failed due to problem.
avs-code See table AVS-1 in Appendix A. AVS response code
cvvresp M, N, Unavailable M - matchN - non-matchUnavailable - CVV not supported or not available from issuer.
resp-code See Appendix F.
MErrMsg Error message if applicable on failure. No records found.