Create Payment Instrument Reference Id

Use this operation to request a unique payment instrument identifier associated to payer payment credentials.

PUT https://api/rest/version/100 / merchant / {merchantId} / createPaymentInstrumentReferenceId

Authentication

This operation requires authentication via one of the following methods:


  • Certificate authentication.
  • Basic HTTP authentication as described at w3.org. Provide 'merchant.<your gateway merchant ID>' in the userid portion and your API password in the password portion.

Request

URL Parameters

{merchantId} Alphanumeric + additional characters REQUIRED

The unique identifier issued to you by your payment provider.


This identifier can be up to 12 characters in length.


Data may consist of the characters 0-9, a-z, A-Z, '-', '_'

Min length: 1 Max length: 40

Fields

apiOperation String = CREATE_PAYMENT_INSTRUMENT_REFERENCE_ID FIXED

Any sequence of zero or more unicode characters.

correlationId String OPTIONAL

A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.

The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
referenceOrderId String OPTIONAL

This is the reference to an order previously submitted by you to the gateway.

It is applicable to the following scenarios.

Tokenization requests:
Identifier for the order which will be used to generate a gateway token. The gateway will attempt tokenization of payment credentials linked to the order ID.
The order identifier provided in this field must be linked to a successfully processed order which has card (FPAN / DPAN) as the payment method.
When providing this field, you must not provide card details in the sourceOfFunds.provided.card parameter group.

When submitting payment transactions:

  • an industry practice payment, this is the reference to the initial cardholder-initiated transaction.
  • a resubmission transaction, this is the reference to the order which is being resubmitted.
  • a transit transaction, this a reference to failed transaction. Used for Merchant Initiated Debt Recovery, First Ride Risk or retrieval of the paymentInstrumentReferenceId.


When submitting authentication transactions for an industry practice payment such as partial shipment. This is the reference to the initial cardholder-initiated transaction.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40

Response

Fields

correlationId String CONDITIONAL

A transient identifier for the request, that can be used to match the response to the request.

The value provided is not validated, does not persist in the gateway, and is returned as provided in the response to the request.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
paymentInstrumentReferenceId String CONDITIONAL

A unique Instrument Reference ID is generated to associate with the payer's payment credentials.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 40
result Enumeration ALWAYS PROVIDED

A system-generated high level overall result of the operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

FAILURE

The operation was declined or rejected by the gateway, token service provider, acquirer or issuer

SUCCESS

The operation was successfully processed

Errors

error

Information on possible error conditions that may occur while processing an operation using the API.

error.cause Enumeration

Broadly categorizes the cause of the error.

For example, errors may occur due to invalid requests or internal system failures.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

INVALID_REQUEST

The request was rejected because it did not conform to the API protocol.

REQUEST_REJECTED

The request was rejected due to security reasons such as firewall rules, expired certificate, etc.

SERVER_BUSY

The server did not have enough resources to process the request at the moment.

SERVER_FAILED

There was an internal system failure.

error.explanation String

Textual description of the error based on the cause.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST or SERVER_BUSY.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 1000
error.field String

Indicates the name of the field that failed validation.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
error.supportCode String

Indicates the code that helps the support team to quickly identify the exact cause of the error.

This field is returned only if the cause is SERVER_FAILED or REQUEST_REJECTED.

Data can consist of any characters

Min length: 1 Max length: 100
error.validationType Enumeration

Indicates the type of field validation error.

This field is returned only if the cause is INVALID_REQUEST and a field level validation error was encountered.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

INVALID

The request contained a field with a value that did not pass validation.

MISSING

The request was missing a mandatory field.

UNSUPPORTED

The request contained a field that is unsupported.

result Enumeration

A system-generated high level overall result of the operation.

Value must be a member of the following list. The values are case sensitive.

ERROR

The operation resulted in an error and hence cannot be processed.