Pan Only

Overview

Merchants wanting to process payments against PAN_ONLY cards are required to provide additional parameters to support 3-D Secure authentication when submitting their request into Acquired.com.

Below is an overview of how the PAN_ONLY process works:

1. Acquired.com decrypts the token value in the Google Pay™ request to determine if the auth_method is PAN_ONLY.
2. We then return the response to the merchant containing the 3DS authentication_url.
3. The merchant will redirect the cardholder to the authentication_url and Acquired.com will display the payment loader and complete the 3DS process.

Example request:

{
  "transaction": {
    "order_id": "1f1f2a61-5b68-4725-a0ce-9560514ec00b",
    "amount": 15.02,
    "currency": "gbp",
    "capture": true
  },
  "payment": {
    "token": "{{token}}",
    "scheme": "visa",
    "type": "debit",
    "display_name": "**** 4242",
    "create_card": false,
    "reference": "Custom Ref 001"
  },
  "customer": {
    "customer_id": "d6103140-7eff-4a84-b9f2-9a5972924b72"
  },
  "tds": {
    "is_active": true,
    "challenge_preference": "no_preference",
    "challenge_window_size": "full_screen",
    "contact_url": "https://yourdomain.com/contact",
    "redirect_url": "https://yourdomain.com/redirect",
    "webhook_url": "https://yourdomain.com/webhook"
  }
}

Get started

Before you get started you will need:

• A direct integration into the Acquired.com API.
• A Google Developer account.
• To contact Google via the Business Console so that they can add your app to their system for production use. (This process involves submitting your website to Google for review.)

Set up Google Pay

Step 1: Defining your payment gateway

1. When providing your payment tokenization method, set the tokenizationSpecification value as PAYMENT_GATEWAY. In addition provide acquired as your gateway and specify the company_id (assigned by Acquired.com) that will subsequently be used when submitting your request into the API as the gatewayMerchantId value.
2. Log into the Hub.
3. Go to Settings > Payment Methods > Google Pay.
4. Click + Add Merchant ID and enter your company_id valued assigned by Acquired.com.

{
	"tokenizationSpecification": {  
  		"type": "PAYMENT_GATEWAY",  
    "parameters": {  
    	"gateway": "acquired",  
    	"gatewayMerchantId": "YOUR_ACQUIRED_COMPANY_ID"  
    }  
    }
}

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Note

View the Google Developer documentation for more information on this.

Step 2: Set the allowedCardNetworks property

For supported payment type, select card.

Acquired.com supports Google Pay payments from Visa, MasterCard & Amex cards, you can define these accepted card networks in the allowedCardNetworks property when initiating your request to the Google Pay API.

const allowedCardNetworks = ["VISA", "MASTERCARD", "AMEX"];

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Note

If you want to enable Amex cards there is further configuration needed for a specific Amex MID. Contact our support team for more information.

Step 3: Set the allowedCardAuthMethods

If you are not decrypting the Google Pay payload then you will not have visibility of the underlying credential, including whether the authentication method equals PAN_ONLY or CRYPTOGRAM_3DS.

const allowedCardAuthMethods = ["PAN_ONLY", "CRYPTOGRAM_3DS"];

Additional 3DS supporting parameters

When supporting the PAN_ONLY method, you are required as a minimum to submit the customer's name and tds object details. We recommend that you also send billing details, such as address and email, as this increases the chances of a frictionless flow.

See the below table detailing the supporting parameters:

Google Pay API: request objects

The Google Pay API enables you to call up your customer's saved payment information.

To reduce friction, at the checkout you should request the billing object data required by Acquired.com when calling the Google Pay API. You can then use the available Google Pay API response data to populate the billing object parameters before submitting your request for authorisation.

Please see below for the request objects that should be configured when making a request into the Google Pay API (when PAN_ONLY Authentication Method is supported):

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Note

To view Google's own reference guide, click here.

Google Pay API: response objects

The table below describes the response objects and parameters returned in the Google Pay API response. The last column in the below table shows how the Google Pay API Response Data can be mapped into our API when submitting your request for authorisation.

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Note

The 'Acquired.com Parameter' column, refers to the API parameter that is mapped to the Google Pay parameter.

Process a Google Pay payment

Now that you have configured Google Pay you can process a payment using our guide here.