About This Guide

Audience and Purpose

This guide is written for merchants who want to customize and control their own customer checkout experience, including receipt and response pages. After the customization, you will have full control to store and control customer information before sending it to CyberSource to process transactions, and to use the Business Center to review and manage all of your orders.

Using the Secure Acceptance Checkout API requires moderate scripting skills. You must create a security script and modify your HTML form to pass order information to CyberSource.

Web Site Requirements

Your web site must meet the following requirements:

■	It must have a shopping-cart or customer order creation software.

■	It must contain product pages in one of the supported scripting languages. See Samples in Scripting Languages.

■	The IT infrastructure must be Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabled to use SSL-based form POST submissions.

■	The IT infrastructure must be capable of digitally signing customer data prior to submission to Secure Acceptance.

Conventions

Note, Important, and Warning Statements

 

A Note contains helpful suggestions or references to material not contained in the document.

An Important statement contains information essential to successfully completing a task or learning a concept.

A Warning contains information or instructions, which, if not heeded, can result in a security risk, irreversible loss of data, or significant cost in time or revenue or both.

Text and Command Conventions

 

Convention	Usage
Bold	■ Field and service names in text; for example: Include the transaction_type field. ■ Items that you are instructed to act upon; for example: Click Save.
Screen text	■ Code examples and samples. ■ Text that you enter in an API environment; for example: Set the transaction_type field to create_payment_token.

Related Documents

Refer to the Support Center for complete CyberSource technical documentation:

http://www.cybersource.com/support_center/support_documentation

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Related Documents

Subject	Description
Business Center	Business Center User Guide—describes how to use the New Business Center.
Decision Manager	The following documents describe how to integrate and use the Decision Manager services. ■ Decision Manager Using the SCMP API Developer Guide (PDF | HTML) ■ Decision Manager Using the Simple Order API Developer Guide (PDF | HTML)
Electronic checks	The following documents describe how to integrate and use the electronic check services: ■ Electronic Check Services Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ Electronic Check Services Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML)
Level II and Level III	Level II and Level III Processing Using Secure Acceptance (PDF | HTML)—describes each Level II and Level III field and processing Level II and Level III transactions using Secure Acceptance.
Payer Authentication	The following documents describe how to integrate and use the payer authentication services: ■ Payer Authentication Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ Payer Authentication Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML)
Payment cards	The following documents describe how to integrate payment card processing into an order management system: ■ Credit Card Services Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ Credit Card Services Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML)
Payment security standards	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)—web site offers standards and supporting materials to enhance payment card data security.
PayPal Express Checkout	The following documents describe how to integrate and use the PayPal Express Checkout services: ■ PayPal Express Checkout Services Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ PayPal Express Checkout Services Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML).
Recurring Billing	The following documents describe how to create customer subscriptions and use payment tokens for recurring and installment payments: ■ Recurring Billing Using the Business Center (PDF | HTML) ■ Recurring Billing Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ Recurring Billing Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML)
Reporting	Business Center Reporting User Guide—describes how to view and configure custom reports using the New Business Center.
Service Fees	Secure Acceptance Checkout API Service Fee Guide (PDF)—describes how to process a transaction with the service fee included.
Secure Acceptance	The following documents describe how to create a Secure Acceptance profile and render the Secure Acceptance Hosted Checkout, along with processing a transaction with the service fee included: ■ Secure Acceptance Hosted Checkout Integration Guide (PDF | HTML)
Third-party tokens	The following documents describe how to create tokens with a third-party provider and are available from CyberSource Customer Support: ■ Tokenization with a Third-Party Provider Using the SCMP API ■ Tokenization with a Third-Party Provider Using the Simple Order API
Token Management Service	The following documents describe how to integrate and use the token management service: ■ Token Management Service Using the SCMP API (PDF | HTML) ■ Token Management Service Using the Simple Order API (PDF | HTML)

Customer Support

For support information about any CyberSource service, visit the Support Center:

http://www.cybersource.com/support