als_process_credit

The AL-Pro Web Portal provides support for secure on line credit card processing allowing Credit card transactions to be fully integrated with AL-Pro Reporting and batch functions. An AL-Pro Credit card Server is required to support this API call. The als_credit_card_server_available.cgi can be used to check the availability of a Credit Card server.

This method is only supported via SSL so that user credit card information is never sent via an un-encrypted channel.

When a credit card is process a call is automatically made to als_insert_payment.cgi and the results of the Credit Card approval as well as the payment entry is returned as XML.

Note:Testing can be done by setting the default settings to allow for Credit cards to be "authorized only".

Name and address information is obtained from the reservation directly. If the credit card name is different than the reservation name then the CCName param can be used to over-ride the reservation data default. Address information is obtained from the reservation itself so the reservation must have address information if AVS is set on.

Parameter	Description	Required	Example	Data Type
reservation	reservation used for this credit card	Required	reservation=432121	Integer
amount	amount of the payment	Required	amount=100.47	Currency
ccexp	Credit Card Expiration Date in the format of MM/YY	Required	ccexp=0907	String
ccnumber	Credit Card Number	Required	ccnumber=12234566783	String
cccid	Information from the back of the card as Card Verification Value	Required	cid=222	String
ccname	Name on the Credit Card if different than the name used in the reservation. must be formatted in the format of lastname,firstname	Optional	ccname=smith, john	String
AuthorizeOnly	Can be used in Testing	Optional	authorizeonly=true	Boolean
ControlNO	whenever a payment is posted to AL-Pro a Control Number is created. To process a credit card a control number is required. When used with als_insert_voucher_payment.cgi the control number is created internally and used for the credit card authorization.	Optional
guarantee	The guarantee param will authenticate a credit card without actually charging it. This does a check to see if the card has been reported stolen. Note: when using the gurantee params and checking for success you need to check both '00' (double zero) or '85' for success	Optional	guarantee=true	Boolean

Parameter	Description	Example	Data Type
ResponseCode	Success will return an approval of '00' (double zero) If you are using the guarantee param success will also include '85' so you need to check '00' or '85' for guarantees	responsecode="00"	String
Responsetext			String
ApprovalCode			String
PostedReference			String