About This Guide

Audience and Purpose

This guide is written for application developers who want to use the CyberSource Simple Order API to integrate merchant descriptors into their payment acceptance system.

Implementing merchant descriptors requires software development skills. You must write code that uses the API request fields to include merchant descriptor fields in credit card service requests.

Conventions

The following special statements are used in this document:

 

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

 

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

The following text conventions are used in this document:

 

Convention	Usage
bold	Field and service names in text; for example: Include the invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptor field.
screen text	■ XML elements ■ Code examples ■ Values for API fields; for example: Set the ccAuthService_run field to true.

Related Documents

■	The Credit Card Services User Guide (PDF | HTML) describes how to integrate CyberSource payment processing services into your business.

■	The CyberSource API Versions page provides information about the CyberSource API versions.

Refer to the Support Center for complete CyberSource technical documentation:

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

Customer Support

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

http://www.cybersource.com/support