Take a card payment

Card Payments (7)

Take online payments with our Card Payments API.

Authentication Header

  Authorization: {your_credentials}

Replace {your_credentials} with your base64-encoded Basic Auth username and password given to your by your Implementation Manager.

You must use the Authorization header for any request you send to our Card Payments APIs, unless you are using client certificate authenticating with SSL/TLS.

Accept/Content-Type Header

Content-Type: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json
Accept: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

We use the Accept header to identify which version of our API you are using. You must use the Accept header for any request you send to our Card Payments APIs.

We require the Content-Type header if the request you're sending includes a request body, and if the HTTP method is a POST or a PUT.

DNS Whitelisting
Whitelist the following URLs:

https://try.access.worldpay.com/
https://access.worldpay.com/

Please ensure you use DNS whitelisting, not explicit IP whitelisting.

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Servers

testing (try)

https://try.access.worldpay.com/

live

https://access.worldpay.com/

Take a card payment

Request

Take online card payments using our Card Payments API.

Headers

Content-Typestringrequired

Example: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Acceptstringrequired

Example: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Bodyapplication/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

transactionReferencestring[ 1 .. 64 ] characters^[-A-Za-z0-9_!@#$%()*=.:;?\[\]{}~`/+]*$required

A unique reference generated by you that is used to identify a payment throughout its lifecycle.

channelstringrequired

Interaction between the cardholder and you. Supply a value of ecom to process an eCommerce authorization. Supply a value of moto to process an authorization as a Mail Order or Telephone Order transaction. Note: 3DS authentication cannot be supplied for MOTO payments.

Enum"ecom""moto"

merchantobjectrequired

An object that contains information about the merchant.

entitystring[ 1 .. 32 ] characters^([A-Za-z0-9]+[A-Za-z0-9 ]*)?$required

Direct your payment to assist with billing, reporting and reconciliation. This is mandatory for authentication and queries.

Example: "default"

mccstring^\d{4}$

You can apply a merchant category code mcc to an individual request. You can only provide an mcc if we have enabled the dynamic mcc feature during boarding. If enabled but not provided, merchant.mcc defaults to a configured value.

paymentFacilitatorobject

An object containing Payment Facilitator information. This information is required for every authorization only if you are a Payment Facilitator.

taxReferencestring[ 1 .. 20 ] characters^(?!\s*$)[a-zA-Z0-9\s-]*$

Merchant's tax reference.

instructionobjectrequired

An object that contains all information related to the payment.

requestAutoSettlementobjectrequired

Indicates whether the transaction should be sent for settlement now true or later false at a time of your choosing.

valueobjectrequired

An object that contains information about the value of the payment.

narrativeobjectrequired

The text that appears on your customer's statement. Used to identify the merchant.

paymentInstrumentobjectrequired

customerAgreementobject

Contains specific customer agreements for the transaction.

consumerBillPaymentboolean

Consumer Bill Payment is a flag which identifies a bill payment paid by providers on behalf of consumers.

debtRepaymentboolean

Debt Repayment Indicator is a flag which identifies a payment with the purpose of repaying a debt.

requestAccountUpdaterboolean

Allows you to request a real-time account update when using a previously stored card. You can only use this with customerAgreement transactions with a storedCardUsage value of subsequent. If the stored card details that you provided for the transaction are no longer valid and new credentials are available, the authorization will be processed with the new card and its details will be returned in the updatedPaymentInstrument object in the response.

fundsTransferobject

Contains details of the funds transfer request, which is a money movement for a reason other than the purchase of goods or services (also known as Account Funding Transaction (AFT)).

routingobject

An object containing specific routing preferences.

riskProfilestring

Used to apply the SCA exemption in the payment request and update the FraudSight data model to benefit future payments.

Example: "https://try.access.worldpay.com/riskProfile/{linkData}"

authenticationobject

An object containing 3DS and/or Network Token authentication details.

threeDSobject

networkTokenobject

Network Token authentication. Only allowed for card/networkToken transactions.

shippingobject

An object containing shipping details.

senderobject

recipientobject

orderobject

An object containing details about the order.

taxExemptboolean

A flag to indicate whether the purchase is exempt from tax. Must be set to true if order.salesTax is 0

orderDateobject

Date of the order.

itemsArray of objects

Array of order items. You can send up to 99 individual order objects within this array.

dutyAmountinteger

Total amount of duty costs for the order.

salesTaxinteger

Total amount of sales tax for the order. Must be provided if merchant.taxReference is supplied.

shippingAmountinteger

Total amount of shipping costs for the order.

invoiceReferencestring[ 1 .. 15 ] characters

Invoice reference for the order.

discountAmountinteger

Total amount of discounts for the order.

recipientobject

Additional transaction recipient data.

accountReferencestring[ 1 .. 10 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$

Partial account reference of the primary recipient. Either partial card number (first 6 and last 4, no spaces), or a bank account number

Example: "4444331111"

lastNamestring[ 1 .. 60 ] characters^(@!£*#$+-_=.,/;:')[a-zA-Z0-9\s-]*$

The last name of the recipient. If for a business, then use the company name.

Example: "Smith"

addressobject

Address of the recipient

dateOfBirthobject

Birth date of the recipient

customerobject

Additional customer data.

documentReferencestring

Required for domestic processing in some Latin American countries.

referencestring

Merchant-generated customer reference.

industryDataobject

An object containing industry specific order data.

typestringrequired

Value"airline"

airlineNamestringrequired

The name of the airline (displayed as it would be on a bill).

Example: "Cobb Air"

ticketobjectrequired

An object containing ticket details.

agentNamestring

The name of the travel agent.

Example: "J Small & Co"

agentCodestringrequired

The IATA travel agency code.

Example: 12345678

invoiceReferencestring

Billing Settlement Plan invoice reference.

airlineCodestringrequired

The two character IATA airline code.

Example: "CA"

passengerobjectrequired

An object containing passenger details.

application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Payment authorization for GBP 2.50

{
  "transactionReference": "Memory265-13/08/1876",
  "merchant": {
    "entity": "default"
  },
  "instruction": {
    "requestAutoSettlement": {
      "enabled": false
    },
    "narrative": {
      "line1": "MindPalace"
    },
    "value": {
      "currency": "GBP",
      "amount": 250
    },
    "paymentInstrument": {
      "type": "card/plain",
      "cardNumber": "4444333322221111",
      "expiryDate": {
        "month": 5,
        "year": 2035
      }
    }
  },
  "channel": "ecom"
}

Responses

The payment authorization has been successfully created

Bodyapplication/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

outcomestringrequired

Outcome of the request. Sent for Settlement returned only if requestAutoSettlement is enabled in the request.

Discriminator

exemptionobject

An exemption result and reason if a risk profile was included in your authorization request.

resultstringrequired

reasonstringrequired

issuerobject

An object containing information returned by the issuer.

authorizationCodestring^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$required

A code returned by the card issuer for a successful authorization. Used in reconciliation and dispute management.

Example: "T31306"

paymentInstrumentobject

Details of the paymentInstrument used.

typestring

cardBinstring^[0-9*]+$

The card BIN (Bank Identification Number) is the first 6 or 8 digits of the card number, and can be used to identify the card issuer, the card brand(s) (eg Visa, Cartes Bancaires), and the country. Card BINs are used to route transactions, check card capabilities, and in fraud assessments.

Example: 444433

lastFourstring^[0-9*]+$

The last four digits of the card. Some characters may be obfuscated with a * if the PAN length is less than 16 characters.

Example: 1111

categorystring

Whether the card is classed as a consumer card or a card for commercial use.

Enum"commercial""consumer"

countryCodestring= 2 characters^[A-Z]+$

The ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 format country code that the card was issued in. May return N/A where the country is unknown.

Example: "GB"

issuerNamestring

The name of the card issuer.

Example: "AN ISSUING BANK LTD"

fundingTypestring

How the card is funded.

Enum"credit""debit""prepaid""chargeCard""deferredDebit""unknown"

cardBrandstring

The card brand that the transaction was processed with. Sometimes referred to as the network or scheme.

Enum"visa""mastercard""amex""maestro""visaElectron""diners""discover""jcb""argencard""cabal"

paymentAccountReferencestring

The payment account reference (PAR) is a non-financial reference that uniquely identifies the underlying cardholder account. This allows you to correlate payments made from the same account with differing instruments (e.g. card/plain and card/wallet+applepay), where the same account funds the transaction. A PAR cannot be used to initiate a payment.

Example: "Q1HJZ28RKA1EBL470G9XYG90R5D3E"

expiryDateobject

The expiry date of the card or network token (where the supplied paymentInstrument was card/wallet+applepay, card/wallet+googlepay, card/networkToken, card/networkToken+applepay or card/networkToken+googlepay)

updatedPaymentInstrumentobject

Details of the updated payment instrument.

appliedNetworkTokenboolean

Returned if the payment instrument was swapped for a network token.

accountUpdaterMessagestring

Details on the type of payment instrument update.

Enum"The merchant is not registered in the update program""The account number was changed""The account was closed""The expiry was changed""The issuing bank does not participate in the update program""Contact the cardholder for updated information""No match found""No changes found"

Example: "The account number was changed"

typestring

Example: "card/plain+masked"

cardBinstring^[0-9*]+$

The updated card BIN (Bank Identification Number).

Example: 444433

lastFourstring^[0-9*]+$

The four digits of the updated card. Some characters may be obfuscated with a * if the PAN length is less than 16 characters.

Example: 1111

expiryDateobject

cardBrandstring

The brand of the updated card. In rare circumstances a card may be reissued under a different brand.

fundingTypestring

How the card is funded.

riskFactorsArray of objects

Any risk factors which have been identified for the authorization. This section will not appear if no risks are identified.

typestringrequired

Enum"avs""cvc""riskProfile"

riskstringrequired

Result of the verification.

Enum"notChecked""notMatched""notSupplied""verificationFailed"

detailstring

Enum"address""postcode"

schemeobject

An object containing information returned by the card scheme.

referencestringrequired

The reference returned by the scheme for this particular payment authorization. The scheme reference returned in a customer initiated transaction should be provided in all subsequent merchant initiated transactions.

Example: "MCCOLXT1C0104 "

_linksobject

cardPayments:cancelobject

An action link to cancel the full authorized amount.

cardPayments:partialCancelobject

An action link to cancel a portion of the authorized amount.

cardPayments:settleobject

An action link to send the full authorized amount for settlement.

cardPayments:partialSettleobject

An action link to send a portion of the authorized amount for settlement.

cardPayments:reverseobject

An action link to cancel or refund the full amount.

cardPayments:eventsobject

An action link to retrieve the last event of the payment.

Response

application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Payment authorization for GBP 2.50 with a successful outcome

{
  "outcome": "authorized",
  "riskFactors": [
    {
      "type": "cvc",
      "risk": "notSupplied"
    },
    {
      "type": "avs",
      "risk": "notChecked",
      "detail": "address"
    },
    {
      "type": "avs",
      "risk": "notChecked",
      "detail": "postcode"
    }
  ],
  "issuer": {
    "authorizationCode": "T75725"
  },
  "scheme": {
    "reference": "MCCOLXT1C0104  "
  },
  "paymentInstrument": {
    "type": "card/plain+masked",
    "cardBin": "555555",
    "lastFour": "4444",
    "category": "consumer",
    "countryCode": "GB",
    "expiryDate": {
      "month": 9,
      "year": 2029
    },
    "cardBrand": "mastercard",
    "fundingType": "credit",
    "issuerName": "AN ISSUING BANK LTD",
    "paymentAccountReference": "Q1HJZ28RKA1EBL470G9XYG90R5D3E"
  },
  "_links": {
    "cardPayments:cancel": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/authorizations/cancellations/linkData"
    },
    "cardPayments:partialCancel": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/authorizations/cancellations/partials/linkData"
    },
    "cardPayments:settle": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/settlements/full/linkData"
    },
    "cardPayments:partialSettle": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/settlements/partials/linkData"
    },
    "cardPayments:events": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/events/linkData"
    },
    "curies": [
      {
        "name": "cardPayments",
        "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/rels/cardPayments/{rel}",
        "templated": true
      }
    ]
  }
}

Take a repeat card payment

Request

Take online payments using our Card Payments API.

Headers

Content-Typestringrequired

Example: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Acceptstringrequired

Example: application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Bodyapplication/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

transactionReferencestring[ 1 .. 64 ] characters^[-A-Za-z0-9_!@#$%()*=.:;?\[\]{}~`/+]*$required

A unique reference generated by you that is used to identify a payment throughout its lifecycle.

merchantobjectrequired

An object that contains information about the merchant.

entitystring[ 1 .. 32 ] characters^([A-Za-z0-9]+[A-Za-z0-9 ]*)?$required

Direct your payment to assist with billing, reporting and reconciliation. This is mandatory for authentication and queries.

Example: "default"

mccstring^\d{4}$

paymentFacilitatorobject

An object containing Payment Facilitator information. This information is required for every authorization only if you are a Payment Facilitator.

taxReferencestring[ 1 .. 20 ] characters^(?!\s*$)[a-zA-Z0-9\s-]*$

Merchant's tax reference.

instructionobjectrequired

An object that contains all information related to the payment.

requestAutoSettlementobjectrequired

Indicates whether the transaction should be sent for settlement now true or later false at a time of your choosing.

valueobjectrequired

An object that contains information about the value of the payment.

narrativeobjectrequired

The text that appears on your customer's statement. Used to identify the merchant.

paymentInstrumentobjectrequired

customerAgreementobjectrequired

Contains specific customer agreements for the transaction.

consumerBillPaymentboolean

Consumer Bill Payment is a flag which identifies a bill payment paid by providers on behalf of consumers.

requestAccountUpdaterboolean

debtRepaymentboolean

Debt Repayment Indicator is a flag which identifies a payment with the purpose of repaying a debt.

fundsTransferobject

Contains details of the funds transfer request, which is a money movement for a reason other than the purchase of goods or services (also known as Account Funding Transaction (AFT)).

routingobject

An object containing specific routing preferences.

recipientobject

Additional transaction recipient data.

accountReferencestring[ 1 .. 10 ] characters^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$

Partial account reference of the primary recipient. Either partial card number (first 6 and last 4, no spaces), or a bank account number

Example: "4444331111"

lastNamestring[ 1 .. 60 ] characters^(@!£*#$+-_=.,/;:')[a-zA-Z0-9\s-]*$

The last name of the recipient. If for a business, then use the company name.

Example: "Smith"

addressobject

Address of the recipient

dateOfBirthobject

Birth date of the recipient

shippingobject

An object containing shipping details.

senderobject

recipientobject

orderobject

An object containing details about the order.

taxExemptboolean

A flag to indicate whether the purchase is exempt from tax. Must be set to true if order.salesTax is 0

orderDateobject

Date of the order.

itemsArray of objects

Array of order items. You can send up to 99 individual order objects within this array.

dutyAmountinteger

Total amount of duty costs for the order.

salesTaxinteger

Total amount of sales tax for the order. Must be provided if merchant.taxReference is supplied.

shippingAmountinteger

Total amount of shipping costs for the order.

invoiceReferencestring[ 1 .. 15 ] characters

Invoice reference for the order.

discountAmountinteger

Total amount of discounts for the order.

customerobject

Additional customer data.

documentReferencestring

Required for domestic processing in some Latin American countries.

referencestring

Merchant-generated customer reference.

industryDataobject

An object containing industry specific order data.

typestringrequired

Value"airline"

airlineNamestringrequired

The name of the airline (displayed as it would be on a bill).

Example: "Cobb Air"

ticketobjectrequired

An object containing ticket details.

agentNamestring

The name of the travel agent.

Example: "J Small & Co"

agentCodestringrequired

The IATA travel agency code.

Example: 12345678

invoiceReferencestring

Billing Settlement Plan invoice reference.

airlineCodestringrequired

The two character IATA airline code.

Example: "CA"

passengerobjectrequired

An object containing passenger details.

riskProfilestring

Used to update the FraudSight data model to benefit future payments.

Example: "https://try.access.worldpay.com/riskProfile/{linkData}"

application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

MIT authorization for subscriptions

{
  "transactionReference": "Memory265-13/08/1876",
  "merchant": {
    "entity": "default"
  },
  "instruction": {
    "requestAutoSettlement": {
      "enabled": false
    },
    "narrative": {
      "line1": "MindPalace"
    },
    "value": {
      "currency": "GBP",
      "amount": 250
    },
    "paymentInstrument": {
      "type": "card/plain",
      "cardNumber": "4444333322221111",
      "expiryDate": {
        "month": 5,
        "year": 2035
      }
    },
    "customerAgreement": {
      "type": "subscription",
      "schemeReference": "MCCOLXT1C0104  "
    }
  }
}

Responses

The payment authorization has been successfully created

Bodyapplication/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

outcomestringrequired

Outcome of the request. Sent for Settlement returned only if requestAutoSettlement is enabled in the request.

Discriminator

exemptionobject

An exemption result and reason if a risk profile was included in your authorization request.

resultstringrequired

reasonstringrequired

issuerobject

An object containing information returned by the issuer.

authorizationCodestring^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$required

A code returned by the card issuer for a successful authorization. Used in reconciliation and dispute management.

Example: "T31306"

paymentInstrumentobject

Details of the paymentInstrument used.

typestring

cardBinstring^[0-9*]+$

Example: 444433

lastFourstring^[0-9*]+$

The last four digits of the card. Some characters may be obfuscated with a * if the PAN length is less than 16 characters.

Example: 1111

categorystring

Whether the card is classed as a consumer card or a card for commercial use.

Enum"commercial""consumer"

countryCodestring= 2 characters^[A-Z]+$

The ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 format country code that the card was issued in. May return N/A where the country is unknown.

Example: "GB"

issuerNamestring

The name of the card issuer.

Example: "AN ISSUING BANK LTD"

fundingTypestring

How the card is funded.

Enum"credit""debit""prepaid""chargeCard""deferredDebit""unknown"

cardBrandstring

The card brand that the transaction was processed with. Sometimes referred to as the network or scheme.

Enum"visa""mastercard""amex""maestro""visaElectron""diners""discover""jcb""argencard""cabal"

paymentAccountReferencestring

Example: "Q1HJZ28RKA1EBL470G9XYG90R5D3E"

expiryDateobject

updatedPaymentInstrumentobject

Details of the updated payment instrument.

appliedNetworkTokenboolean

Returned if the payment instrument was swapped for a network token.

accountUpdaterMessagestring

Details on the type of payment instrument update.

Example: "The account number was changed"

typestring

Example: "card/plain+masked"

cardBinstring^[0-9*]+$

The updated card BIN (Bank Identification Number).

Example: 444433

lastFourstring^[0-9*]+$

The four digits of the updated card. Some characters may be obfuscated with a * if the PAN length is less than 16 characters.

Example: 1111

expiryDateobject

cardBrandstring

The brand of the updated card. In rare circumstances a card may be reissued under a different brand.

fundingTypestring

How the card is funded.

riskFactorsArray of objects

Any risk factors which have been identified for the authorization. This section will not appear if no risks are identified.

typestringrequired

Enum"avs""cvc""riskProfile"

riskstringrequired

Result of the verification.

Enum"notChecked""notMatched""notSupplied""verificationFailed"

detailstring

Enum"address""postcode"

schemeobject

An object containing information returned by the card scheme.

referencestringrequired

Example: "MCCOLXT1C0104 "

_linksobject

cardPayments:cancelobject

An action link to cancel the full authorized amount.

cardPayments:partialCancelobject

An action link to cancel a portion of the authorized amount.

cardPayments:settleobject

An action link to send the full authorized amount for settlement.

cardPayments:partialSettleobject

An action link to send a portion of the authorized amount for settlement.

cardPayments:reverseobject

An action link to cancel or refund the full amount.

cardPayments:eventsobject

An action link to retrieve the last event of the payment.

Response

application/vnd.worldpay.payments-v7+json

Payment authorization for GBP 2.50 with a successful outcome

{
  "outcome": "authorized",
  "riskFactors": [
    {
      "type": "cvc",
      "risk": "notSupplied"
    },
    {
      "type": "avs",
      "risk": "notChecked",
      "detail": "address"
    },
    {
      "type": "avs",
      "risk": "notChecked",
      "detail": "postcode"
    }
  ],
  "issuer": {
    "authorizationCode": "675725"
  },
  "scheme": {
    "reference": "MCCOLXT1C0104  "
  },
  "paymentInstrument": {
    "type": "card/plain+masked",
    "cardBin": "555555",
    "lastFour": "4444",
    "category": "consumer",
    "countryCode": "GB",
    "expiryDate": {
      "month": 9,
      "year": 2029
    },
    "cardBrand": "mastercard",
    "fundingType": "credit",
    "issuerName": "AN ISSUING BANK LTD",
    "paymentAccountReference": "Q1HJZ28RKA1EBL470G9XYG90R5D3E"
  },
  "_links": {
    "cardPayments:cancel": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/authorizations/cancellations/"
    },
    "cardPayments:settle": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/settlements/full/"
    },
    "cardPayments:partialSettle": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/settlements/partials/"
    },
    "cardPayments:events": {
      "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/payments/events/"
    },
    "curies": [
      {
        "name": "cardPayments",
        "href": "https://try.access.worldpay.com/rels/cardPayments/{rel}",
        "templated": true
      }
    ]
  }
}

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