Transaction

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Required Required fields must be sent. If the data is not sent Ravelin will return an error.
Important Important fields are crucial for performance where that data is relevant for your business.
Optional Optional fields are additional data points that can be shared with Ravelin.
These fields are unlikely to impact performance but may be visible in the Ravelin dashboard.

POST api.ravelin.com/v2/transaction

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timestamp integer required

The time at which this data payload was valid. When sending events in realtime, this will usually be 'now'. This is used to merge data that arrives out-of-order.

A Unix timestamp preferably as an integer count of milliseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00 UTC (nanoseconds are also accepted).

orderId string required

A unique identifier for this order.

customerId string required

The unique identifier of the customer. If your system allows anonymous checkout then we recommend making this the customer's email address.

eventType string optional

An eventType should identify what event in your system triggered this API call.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-_]*$
tempCustomerId string optional
deprecated

Deprecated. Use customerId instead.

paymentMethodId string optional

A unique identifier for this payment method, specific to this customer. Two customers should not use the same paymentMethodId. Prefer {"paymentMethod": {"methodType": "cash"}} instead of paymentMethodId for cash payments.

paymentMethod object optional

One of the following:

Card - A credit or debit card.

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Payment Method Cipher - An encrypted payment method, containing the full card details encrypted via a Ravelin SDK.

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Cash - The customer is paying in cash, or a cash-based payment method.

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Bank Account - Bank Accounts.

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PayPal - PayPal payments.

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Credit - This payment method type should be used for any payments made using credit that a customer has with the merchant.

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Invoice - This payment method should be used whenever the merchant provides credit to the customer.

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Wallet - A digital wallet payment method.

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From Transaction - Refer to the payment method used by a named transaction. For usage examples, see Saving payment methods after checkout and Associating refunds with payment methods.

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Direct Debit - Direct Debits. - deprecated.

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Bank Transfer - Bank Transfers. - deprecated.

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Other - Other supported payment methods. - deprecated.

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Removal: Used for marking a saved payment method as removed from the account.

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device object optional

The device used by the customer to trigger this update.

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deviceId string optional

The ID of the device used by the customer to trigger this update.

transaction object optional

An attempt to charge a payment method to pay or be refunded for an order. Mutually exclusive with transactions.

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transactions array optional

One or more attempts to charge a payment method to pay or be refunded for an order. Mutually exclusive with transaction.

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POST https://api.ravelin.com/v2/transaction HTTP/1.1
Authorization: token ...
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "timestamp": 1512828988826,
  "customerId": "abc-123-ZYZ",
  "orderId": "abcde12345-ZXY",
  "transaction": {
    "transactionId": "123-abc-XYZ",
    "time": 1480340580291,
    "amount": 1000,
    "currency": "GBP",
    "type": "auth_capture",
    "gateway": "braintree",
    "gatewayReference": "123-abc-XYZ",
    "success": true,
    "3ds": {
      "attempted": true,
      "challenged": true,
      "success": true,
      "startTime": 1479231064910,
      "endTime": 1479231064919,
      "timedOut": false,
      "version": "2.2.1",
      "liabilityShifted": true,
      "eci": "5",
      "transStatus": "Y",
      "transStatusReason": "01",
      "messageType": "ARes",
      "iReqCode": "55"
    },
    "declineCode": "1234",
    "authCode": "1234",
    "avsResultCode": {
      "street": "pass",
      "postalCode": "unchecked"
    },
    "cvvResultCode": "pass",
    "mcc": "0742",
    "mid": "mid-1",
    "acquirerId": "adyen",
    "acquirerBin": "123456",
    "acquirerCountryCode": "GBR"
  }
}

Response

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status integer

The HTTP response status code.

timestamp integer

A Unix timestamp indicating when we finished handling the request.

message string

If an error has occurred, a description of the error.

data object

Contains our recommendations and related details.

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{
  "status": 200,
  "timestamp": 1512828988826,
  "data": {
    "action": "ALLOW",
    "score": 12,
    "source": "RAVELIN",
    "customerId": "abc-123-ZYZ",
    "scoreId": "2bf39d-d1299-31",
    "transactionOptimisation": {
      "transactionId": "123-abc-XYZ",
      "action": "AUTHENTICATE",
      "exemption": "TRANSACTION_RISK_ANALYSIS",
      "threeDSChallengePreference": "NO_CHALLENGE_REQUESTED",
      "actionSource": "CLIENT_RULE",
      "rules": {
        "triggered": [
          {
            "ruleId": 1,
            "ruleVersion": 1,
            "action": "AUTHENTICATE",
            "exemption": "TRANSACTION_RISK_ANALYSIS",
            "threeDSChallengePreference": "NO_CHALLENGE_REQUESTED",
            "triggered": true,
            "state": "active"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "warnings": [
      {
        "class": "customer-not-found",
        "help": "https://developer.ravelin.com/api/warnings/#customer-not-found",
        "msg": "Customer \"abc-123-ZYZ\" not found."
      }
    ]
  }
}

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