Request Types

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Different payment actions require different requestType values. The table below explains the situations in which you might want to use the different requestType values. The technical detail for each of these requestTypes is included in the BodyRequest section of the API explorer. All API calls are POST.

Payment Type	requestType	Payment Scenario
Single Card Payment	PaymentCardSaleTransaction	Use this requestType to execute a normal customer payment transaction with a credit or debit card.
Credit	PaymentCardCreditTransaction	Use this requestType to execute an original credit payment transaction to a customer’s credit or debit card. This means you’ll refund this amount to the customer’s card without a reference to any previous Sale transaction
Pre-auth (taking a deposit)	PaymentCardPreAuthTransaction	Use this requestType to pre-authorize an amount against a card, for completion at a later point.
Payment with a token	PaymentTokenSaleTransaction	Use this requestType to execute a normal customer payment transaction with a token generated previously.
Token Refund	PaymentTokenCreditTransaction	Use this requestType to execute a return to a customer’s credit or debit card using a token generated previously.
Token pre-auth	PaymentTokenPreAuthTransaction	Use this requestType to pre-authorize an amount using a token, for completion at a later point.

The differences that are required in the JSON for each of these request types are explained through the rest of this guide.