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validate_payment_information_m Guide

Determines the validity of a credit card by performing an authorization transaction. The default authorization amount is 0 or 1 unit of currency (for example, 0 or $1 USD) depending on payment processor and card type.

Please note: In order to use this call, your payment processor must support credit card authorizations.

API Specification: validate_payment_information_m
Required Fields:
  • <client_no>
  • <auth_key>
  • <acct_no> or <client_acct_id>
  • <seq_no> or <alt_pay_method>
  • <billing_group_no> or <client_billing_group_no>

Error Codes

Error Code/Description Associated Inputs

1001: unexpected error

 

1004: authentication error

Associated Inputs: auth_key, client_id, client_no

<client_no>, <auth_key>

1009: account does not exist, Account not found: AriaNo (acct_no), Account not found: Userid (userid), or Account not found: ClientId (client_acct_id)

Associated Inputs: acct_no, account_no, client_acct_id, user_id, userid, parent_acct_no

<account_no>, <client_acct_id>

25020: Illegal characters entered

Associated Inputs: All character field inputs like firstname lastname, dunning_group_name, comments, etc.

<auth_key>, <inTrackingNumber>, <inAuthValue>, <cc_number>, <bill_company_name>, <bill_first_name>, <bill_middle_initial>, <bill_last_name>, <bill_address1>, <bill_address2>, <bill_city>, <bill_locality>, <bill_state_prov>, <bill_zip>, <bill_country>, <bill_email>, <bill_phone>, <bill_phone_extension>, <bill_cell_phone>, <bill_work_phone>, <bill_work_phone_extension>, <currency_cd>, <bill_address3>, <alt_client_acct_group_id>, <track_data1>, <track_data2>, <client_acct_group_id>, <client_billing_group_id>, <fraud_control_field_name>, <fraud_control_field_value client_acct_id>, <alt_caller_id>, <attach_qualifier_option>, <qualifier_name>, <qualifier_value>

12001: Account group does not exist

Associated Inputs: group_no, acct_group_id

Additional Comments: An invalid seq_function group_id was entered.

<acct_group_no>, <alt_client_acct_group_id>, <client_acct_group_id>

12010: Client account group does not exist

Associated Inputs: collections_acct_group_no, client_acct_group_id, alt_client_acct_group_id

<acct_group_no>, <alt_client_acct_group_id>, <client_acct_group_id>

6004: validation not supported for this payment method

Associated Inputs: alt_pay_method, seq_no

Additional Comments: Only payment methods 1 and 13 are supported.

<alt_pay_method>, <seq_no>

5007: invalid currency cd

Associated Inputs: currency_cd, Currency code of Threshold Billing Rule does not match Account. Rule: AriaNo ($AriaNo)

<currency_cd>

6051: Invalid Billing sequence number.

Associated Input: seq_no

<seq_no>

26010: Invalid billing group number

Associated Inputs: billing_group_no

<billing_group_no>

26012: Invalid client-defined billing group ID.

Associated Inputs: client_billing_group_id

<client_billing_group_id>

6003: could not validate billing information

Associated Inputs: pay_method_type, cc_auth_amount

Additional Comments: There was an error during the $1 authorization attempt.

 

Additional Guidance

Inputs passed to this API call will override any fraud options that you specified in your payment gateway, collection group, or Direct Post settings, unless stated otherwise below.

Input Fields
Field Name: Notes:
<fraud_filter>

If you set this field to 0, then Aria will ignore all other fraud filtering fields.

If you set this field to 1, then Aria will apply the values that you specified in the other fraud filtering fields. However, if you pass -1 into any fraud filtering field, Aria will ignore that field.

If you set this field to 2, then Aria will apply the values that you specified in the other fraud filtering fields.

Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false (disable)

Note: If you set this field to 0, then Aria will ignore all other fraud filtering fields.

1 true (enable)

Note: If you set this field to 1, then Aria will apply the values that you specified in the other fraud filtering fields. However, if you pass -1 into any fraud filtering field, Aria will ignore that field.

2 Use settings specified at the collection group or payment gateway level.

Note: If you set this field to 2, then Aria will apply the values that you specified in the other fraud filtering fields.

<alt_pay_method>
Allowable Values
Values Description
1 Credit card
13 Tokenized Credit Card
40 Merchant-Specific Gift Card
<fraud_filtering_enabled>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 disable
1 enable
-1 Use settings specified at the collection group or payment gateway level.
<change_status_on_fraud_filtering_failure>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
-1 Use settings specified at the collection group or payment gateway level.
<change_status_on_fraud_filtering_review>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
-1 Use settings specified at the collection group or payment gateway level.
<change_mp_status_on_fraud_filtering_cc_prefix_failure>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
<change_mp_status_on_fraud_filtering_cc_number_failure>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
<change_mp_status_on_fraud_filtering_cc_issuing_country_failure>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
<change_mp_status_on_fraud_filtering_cc_issuing_country_suspect>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 false
1 true
<perform_marketing_insights_inquiry>
Allowable Values
Values Description
NULL or -1 (Default) Use client-defined settings
0 Do not return
1 Return
<perform_balance_inquiry>
Allowable Values
Values Description
0 (default) False, do not return card balance.
1 True, do not return card balance.
<perform_card_type_detail_inquiry>
Allowable Values
Values Description
-1 Use Client Defined Settings (Default)
0 Do Not Return
1 Return
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