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About paysafecard
General information about paysafecard
Paysafecard is a prepaid card that consumers buy in shops in order to subsequently shop online. Since this is a prepaid means of payment, this system is free from chargebacks. In addition it offers merchants a payment guarantee.
Paysafecard is widespread in the gaming, gambling and adult content sectors. The previous Wallie-card has now been adopted into the paysafecard system. You can tap into additional target groups with this prepaid system:
- customers who do not want to disclose personal data such as bank account or credit card number
- young people who are denied access to classic payment systems such as credit cards
- customers who do not obtain a credit card from their bank
- as well as customers who prefer to pay with paysafecard
The prepaid system is international: the paysafecard Group operates in 27 countries in Europe as well as in North and Latin America and processes around 20 million prepaid payments annually.
paysafecard is a prepaid card which is a widespread micropayment method for gaming, gambling and adult-content. |
Further information can be found on the webpage of paysafecard (www.paysafecard.com).
Process flow chart
paysafecard process flow
Payment platform interface
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.Definitions
Payment with paysafecard via Payment platform form interface
To make a payment with paysafecard over a Payment platform form, 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 | |
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MerchantID | ans..30 | M | ID of merchant. 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 | 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 | a3 | M | Currency, three digits DIN / ISO 4217 | |
MAC | an64 | M | Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) with SHA-256 algorithm | |
OrderDesc | ans..768 | M | Description of delivered products, services etc. | |
Capture | a..6 | O | Determines the type and time of capture. <AUTO>: capturing immediately after authorisation (default value). <MANUAL>: capturing made by the merchant. <Number>: Delay in hours until the capture. paysafecard permits max. 1 hour delay until the capture. Other values must be agreed upon bilaterally. | |
Language | a2 | O | Language: <de> German (default), <en> English | |
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. | |
CustomerID | ans..50 | M | ID for uniquely identifying the customer | |
DispositionRestrictionAge | n..3 | O | Age restriction for the paysafecard user account | |
DispositionRestrichtionKYC | ans..20 | O | Restriction of KYC level (Know Your Customer) | |
DispositionRestrictionCountry | a2 | O | Restriction to a given country. Two characters country code according to ISO 3166. | |
SubID | ans..8 | O | Support for reporting filters for paysafecard payments; must be agreed with paysafecard | |
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 | |
AccOwner | ans..50 | M | Name of account holder | |
AddrCountryCode | a2 | M | Two characters country code according to ISO 3166 | |
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. |
Parameters for payments with paysafecard
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 |
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MID | ans..30 | M | ID of merchant |
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 |
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 |
PaymentGuarantee | a..12 | C | NONE = no 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 from PPRO |
Return parameters for URLSuccess, URLFailure and URLNotify with paysafecard