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About Alipay

General information about Alipay

China is the second largest market worldwide for online payments with annual sales of over 100 billion US Dollars and it offers the greatest growth potential for eCommerce. Alipay is a leading local Payment Service Provider (PSP) with a popular E-Wallet for online payments. Alipay supports transactions within China as well as cross-border transactions (CrossBorder) to foreign merchants, which are directly billed in one of the supported currencies.

Alipay Spot Payment is a payment variant for Alipay customers who also want to use their Alipay account in store. The checkout system scans a barcode generated by the Alipay App from the customer's mobile phone and then calls an Alipay online interface via Payment platform. Alipay Spot Payment is available only for cross-border partners.

 

Customers and merchants can send and receive payments with the E-Wallet from China’s leading online payment system. Alipay has over 800 million registered users and in 2014 it processed over 100 million online payments per day.

 

Further information you will find also on the webpage of Alipay (https://intl.alipay.com/).

 

Process flow charts

Alipay process flow


Payment platform interface

Definitions

Data formats:

Format

Description

a

alphabetical

as

alphabetical with special characters

n

numeric

an

alphanumeric

ans

alphanumeric with special characters

ns

numeric with special characters

bool

boolean expression (true or false)

3

fixed length with 3 digits/characters

..3

variable length with maximum 3 digits/characters

enum

enumeration of allowed values

dttm

ISODateTime (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss)


Abbreviations:

Abbreviation

Description

CND

condition

M

mandatory

O

optional

C

conditional


Notice: Please note that the names of parameters can be returned in upper or lower case.


Payment with Alipay over Payment platform form interface

To make an Alipay payment via PPRO over a Payment platform form, go to the following URL:

 

Notice: For security reasons, Payment platform rejects all payment requests with formatting errors. Therefore, please use the correct data type for each parameter.

The following table describes the encrypted payment request parameters:

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

MerchantID

ans..30

M

MerchantID. Additionally this parameter has to be passed in plain language too.

TransID

ans..64

M

Merchant transaction number, which must be unique

RefNr

ans..40

O

Unique reference number. Only characters a-zA-Z0-9,-_ are allowed.

Amount

n..10

M

Amount in the smallest currency unit (e.g. EUR Cent)

Please contact the helpdesk, if you want to capture amounts < 100 (smallest currency unit).

Currency

a3

M

Currency, three digits DIN / ISO 4217. Only EUR, GBP, USD allowed.

MAC

an64

M

Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) with SHA-256 algorithm

OrderDesc

ans..768

M

Description of delivered products, services etc.

URLSuccess

ans..256

M

Complete URL which calls up Payment platform if payment has been successful. The URL may be called up only via port 443 This URL may not contain parameters: In order to exchange values between Payment platform and shop, please use the parameter UserData.

URLFailure

ans..256

M

Complete URL which calls up Payment platform if payment has been unsuccessful. The URL may be called up only via port 443 This URL may not contain parameters: In order to exchange values between Payment platform and shop, please use the parameter UserData.

Response

a7

O

Status response sent by Payment platform to URLSuccess and URLFailure, should be encrypted. For this purpose, transmit Response=encrypt parameter.

URLNotify

ans..256

M

Complete URL which Payment platform calls up in order to notify the shop about the payment result. The URL may be called up only via port 443 It may not contain parameters: Use the UserData parameter instead.

UserData

ans..1024

O

If specified at request, Payment platform forwards the parameter with the payment result to the shop

ReqID

ans..32

O

To avoid double payments, enter an alphanumeric value which identifies your transaction and may be assigned only once. If the transaction is submitted again with the same ReqID, the payment platform will not carry out the payment, but will just return the status of the original transaction. Please note that the payment platform must have a finalized transaction status for the first initial action. Submissions with identical ReqID for an open status will be processed regularly.

SellingPoint

ans..50

O

Selling point

Service

ans..50

O

Products or service sold

Channel

ans..64

O

Configuration channel of the PPRO contract (account and ContractID are stored in the system). If it exists, it may overwrite channels stored in the system.

Languagea2O2-letter language code (e.g.. de) that should be preferred when presenting payment pages to the consumer

AccOwner

ans..50

M

Name of account holder

Device

a6

O

When submitting “Mobile” the mobile version of Alipay is called instead of the desktop version

AddrCountryCode

a2

O

Country code for the account holder’s invoicing address, 2 characters according to ISO 3166. Only CN allowed, defined within the code.

HotelNameans..128CName of the hotel for which the reservation is for. Mandatory in case the merchant’s business type is Hotel.
CheckInTimeans..128C

Date of the check-in expressed in GMT+8, in format: YYYY-MM-DD. Mandatory in case the merchant’s business type is Hotel.

Example: 2020-01-22

In case of multiple entries, they should be separated by a ‘|’ .

Example: 2020-01-22|020-02-10

CheckOutTimeans..128C

Date of the check-out expressed in GMT+8, in format: YYYY-MM-DD. Mandatory in case the merchant’s business type is Hotel.

Example: 2020-01-25

In case of multiple entries, they should be separated by a ‘|’’.

Example: 2020-01-25|2020-02-14

OrderDesc2ans..400CBase64 encoded JSON object with description of purchased products and their quantity

Plain

ans..50

O

A value to be set by the merchant to return some information unencrypted, e.g. the MID

Custom

ans..1024

O

The merchant can submit several values separated by | which are returned unencrypted and separated by &.

Custom=session=123|id=456 will change in the answer to Session=123&id=456

Parameters for payments with Alipay


The following table describes the result parameters that the Payment platform transmits to your URLSuccess, URLFailure or URLNotify. If you have specified the Response=encrypt parameter, the following parameters are forwarded Blowfish encrypted to your system:

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

MID

ans..30

M

MerchantID

PayID

an32

M

ID assigned by Payment platform for the payment, e.g. for referencing in batch files.

XID

an32

M

ID for all single transactions for one payment assigned by Payment platform

TransID

ans..64

M

Merchant’s transaction number

RefNr

ans..40

O

Merchant’s unique reference number. Only characters a-zA-Z0-9,-_ are allowed.

Status

a..30

M

OK in the case of URLSuccess and AUTHORIZE_REQUEST or FAILED in the case of URLFailure

Description

ans..1024

M

Further details in the event that payment is rejected. Please do not use the Description but the Code parameter for the transaction status analysis!

Code

n8

M

Error code according to Payment platform Response Codes Excel file

MAC

an64

M

Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) with SHA-256 algorithm

UserData

ans..1024

O

If specified at request, Payment platform forwards the parameter with the payment result to the shop

PaymentPurpose

ans..26

M

Purpose of payment

PaymentGuarantee

a..12

C

NONE = no payment guarantee,

VALIDATED= customer account valid, but no payment guarantee,

FULL= payment guarantee

Notice: This parameter is only returned if the Status=OK.

ErrorText

ans..256

C

Detailed PPRO error message.

Notice: Is returned only if Status=FAILED. Use is possible only in agreement with support.

TransactionID

an..20

O

Unique transaction number with PPRO

Plain

ans..50

O

A value to be set by the merchant to return some information unencrypted, e.g. the MID

Custom

ans..1024

O

The merchant can submit several values separated by | which are returned unencrypted and separated by &.

Custom=session=123|id=456 will change in the answer to Session=123&id=456

Return parameters for URLSuccess, URLFailure and URLNotify with Alipay

 


Credit with reference

Credits (refunds) are possible via a Server-to-Server connection. For a Credit with reference to a capture the amount of the Credit is limited to the amount of the previous capture.

To carry out a credit with a reference transaction, please use the following URL:

 

Notice: For security reasons, Payment platform rejects all payment requests with formatting errors. Therefore, please use the correct data type for each parameter.

The following table describes the encrypted payment request parameters:

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

MerchantID

ans..30

M

MerchantID. Additionally this parameter has to be passed in plain language too.

PayID

an32

M

ID assigned by Payment platform for the payment to be credited

TransID

ans..64

M

TransactionID which should be unique for each payment

RefNr

ans..40

O

Merchant’s unique reference number. Only characters a-zA-Z0-9,-_ are allowed.

Amount

n..10

M

Amount in the smallest currency unit (e.g. EUR Cent)

Please contact the helpdesk, if you want to capture amounts < 100 (smallest currency unit).

Currency

a..3

M

Currency code, three digits DIN / ISO 4217

MAC

an64

M

Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) with SHA-256 algorithm

UserData

ans..256

O

If specified at request, Payment platform forwards the parameter with the payment result to the shop

ReqID

ans..32

O

To avoid double payments, enter an alphanumeric value which identifies your transaction and may be assigned only once. If the transaction is submitted again with the same ReqID, the payment platform will not carry out the payment, but will just return the status of the original transaction. Please note that the payment platform must have a finalized transaction status for the first initial action. Submissions with identical ReqID for an open status will be processed regularly.

Parameters for credit payments with Alipay via socket connection

 

The following table describes the Payment platform response parameters:

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

MID

ans..30

M

MerchantID

PayID

an32

M

ID assigned by Payment platform for the payment, e.g. for referencing in batch files.

XID

an32

M

ID for all single transactions (authorisation, capture, credit note) for one payment assigned by Payment platform

TransID

ans..64

M

Merchant’s transaction number

Status

a..30

M

OK or FAILED

Description

ans..1024

M

Further details in the event that payment is rejected. Please do not use the Description but the Code parameter for the transaction status analysis!

Code

n8

M

Error code according to Payment platform Response Codes Excel file

UserData

ans..256

O

If specified at request, Payment platform forwards the parameter with the payment result to the shop

RefNr

ans..40

O

Merchant’s unique reference number. Only characters a-zA-Z0-9,-_ are allowed.

ErrorText

ans..256

O

Detailed PPRO error message

Response parameters for credit payments with Alipay via socket connection

 


Batch processing via the interface

Basic information about using Batch files and about their structure can be found in the Batch Manager manual. Within batch processing not alle functions are available which are usually available for the online interface.

This section describes the parameters which must be transferred within the data set (Record) for executing credits with Alipay, which can be found within the response file about the payment status.

Following table gives an overview of all batch versions that are possible for a specific action and their specialities:

Action

Version

Description

Credit

1.0 / 2.0

Standard version without return of parameter Code

 

1.x / 2.x

with RefNr (valid for all versions other than 1.0)

Description of the possible batch versions


The structure for an Alipay payment within a Batch file to be submitted is as follows:

HEAD,<MerchantID>,<Date>,<Version>

Alipay,Credit,<Amount>,<Currency>,<TransID>,(<RefNr>,)<PayID>

FOOT,<CountRecords>,<SumAmount>

Example for Master MID Funktion:

HEAD,[Master]MerchantID,Date,2.x
Type,Action,[Slave]MID,Amount,Currency,TransID,Data (depends on Action)
FOOT,CountRecords,SumAmount


The following table describes the individual fields and values used within the data set (record) in the batch file:

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

Type

a..11

M

HEAD for Header, FOOT for Footer, Alipay for Alipay

Action

a..20

M

The parameter Action defines the type of transaction:

Credit

Amount

n..10

M

Amount in the smallest currency unit (e.g. EUR Cent)

Please contact the helpdesk, if you want to capture amounts < 100 (smallest currency unit).

Currency

a3

M

Currency code, three digits DIN / ISO 4217

TransID

ans..64

M

TransactionID which should be unique for each payment

RefNr

ans..40

O

Unique reference number. Only characters a-zA-Z0-9,-_ are allowed.

PayID

an32

M

ID for this transaction given by Payment platform

Description of fields within the record for Batch files

 

The record area within the response file for Batch transactions looks as follows:

HEAD,<MerchantID>,<Date>,<Version>

Alipay,Credit,<Amount>,<Currency>,<TransID>,(<RefNr>,)<PayID>,<Status>,<Code>

FOOT,<CountRecords>,<SumAmount>

 

The following table describes the response parameters which the Batch Manager saves in the Record area for each transaction (standard parameters not explained here, such as <TransID> or <RefNR> and request parameters are returned unchanged and correspond to the call as specified before):

Parameter

Format

CND

Description

Action

a..20

M

The parameter Action defines the type of transaction:

Credit

PayID

an32

M

ID for this transaction given by Payment platform

Status

a..50

M

OK or FAILED

Code

n8

M

Error code according to Payment platform Response Codes Excel file

Description of result parameters within the record for Batch files


JSON object OrderDesc2

Scheme

{
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-06/schema#",
    "type": "array",
    "items": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/GoodsInfoElement"
    },
    "definitions": {
        "GoodsInfoElement": {
            "type": "object",
            "additionalProperties": false,
            "properties": {
                "itemDescription": {
                    "type": "string"
                },
                "number": {
                    "type": "integer"
                }
            },
            "required": [
                "itemDescription",
                "number"
            ],
            "title": "GoodsInfoElement"
        }
    }
}

Example

[{
     "itemDescription": "Book",
     "number": 3
}, {
     "itemDescription": "Movie",
     "number": 2
}
]
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