Payment Options Inquiry allows you to obtain information about the configured payment options (for example, payment types, card types, currencies, payment plans) for a merchant so that they can be offered to payers when making a payment for an order. It is also used to request a DCC rate quote.
When retrieving payment options, your request can contain zero or more of the following request parameters:
USD
, AUD
)CREDIT
, PAYPAL
)AMEX
, VISA
) INTERNET
, CALL_CENTRE
)If you do not supply any request parameters, the response will contain all combinations of payment option field values. This means that the response may include invalid payment option combinations
If you supply one or more request parameters, the response will contain all combinations of payment option field values restricted by the request parameter values.
USD
and MXN
are returned as the configured currencies, then it is not a valid combination to offer USD
as the currency because custom payment plans only support MXN
currency.It is important to interpret the valid payment options returned in the response. You may not receive a valid combination if any the following are true:
AMX
instead of AMEX
. In this case, an invalid request error is returned for card.type
.