Pymt Authorization

Note:

This option should be used only by sites that use batch files to authorize payments. If your site uses real-time payment authorization or stores credit-card information off-site, you should not use this option.

Credit card payments are typically sent to a credit card company via specialized credit card processing software. The credit card company then sends back an authorization number, or else declines the payment. A similar process is used with bank drafts. Pymt Authorization allows declines and authorization numbers for credit card and bank draft payments to be interfaced from another system via an ASCII file. If payments are interfaced with an authorization number, the number will be updated in the payment record. If there is no authorization number (i.e., the payment is declined), a Payment Decline transaction will be created.

A standard file format currently exists for credit card cancels (see Appendix B). If you wish to authorize credit card payments with this option, or authorize/cancel bank draft payments, you will need to set up a user-defined file format via File Map using the Payment Authorization usage (see Appendix B) or use a third-party, licensed interface. This same format can then be used for both credit card cancels and payment authorizations.

To authorize or cancel payment transactions subscriber credit card payments:

• Select Pymt Authorization from the Subscriber Payments menu to display the Cancel Subscriber Payment Authorization window.

  
• Click Add and complete the following fields.

  Field	Type	What to enter
  INPUT FILE FORMAT	setup	Enter the file format that you will be importing payment authorizations with. User-defined formats must be set up in advance in File Map. The standard credit card cancel format is “SubCancelCC”.
  INPUT FILE	open (30)	Enter the file name in the /dti/exchange/cm directory. This will default from File Map.
  READ OPTION	predefined	Indicate whether to commit or edit the credit card payments in the ASCII file. If you choose “Commit”, cancel payment transactions will be created (for declines) and payment authorization numbers will be populated (for authorizations). If you choose “Edit”, only the processing report will be created (you can then look the report over for errors before committing).
  BATCH DESCRIPTION	open (10) open (30)	If the field above is set to “commit”, enter an ID and description for the batch of subscriber payment cancellations that will be created by this process.
  CANCEL DATE	date	Type the date on which you are entering this batch. The current date defaults.
  EXPORT, EXPORT FILE	yes/no open (30)	Indicate whether payment declines should be exported to an ASCII file, and if so, the file name. Only declines (not authorizations) will be exported. See Appendix B for the export file format.

• Click OK and then Continue to begin processing. After processing is complete, a report lists the payments processed and any errors that occurred. This report is similar in format to the Cancel Credit Card Payment report.