API Overview

Payments Acquirer Implementation Guide
- Pilot Release
- Recent Revisions to This Document
- VISA Platform Connect: Specifications and Conditions for Resellers/Partners

Introduction to Payments Acquirer Implementation
- Authorization and Capture Service Data Flow
- Merchant Services
- Processing Data Flow

Primary Service Features
- TC 33.A Capture File
- Edit Package
- File Delivery Options

Implementation Tasks
- Task 1: Create an Internal Project Plan
- Task 2: Fulfill Internal System Requirements
- Task 3: Establish Merchant Relationships
- Task 4: Request and Complete Forms
- Task 5: Complete Internal Systems Updates
- Task 6: Finish Testing
- Task 7: Establish a Go-Live Date
- Task 8: Manage Merchant Boarding
- Task 9: Monitor Production Activity

Merchant Set-Up Tasks
- Task 1: Register the Merchant
- Task 2: Choose an Integration Method
- Task 3: Download Documentation
- Task 4: Create Encryption Key
- Task 5: Merchant Codes and Test
- Task 6: Submit Quote and Contract(s)
- Task 7: Configure Merchant Banking
- Task 8: Product Configuration
- Task 9: Going Live

Testing Support
- Acquirer Testing
- Merchant Testing

Reference Information
- Enhanced Capture File Specifications
- Reject and Response Codes

Capture File Best Practices

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Task 5: Merchant Codes and Test

When the merchant downloads the software and documentation for its connection method(s), instruct the merchant to code its software for the Visa Acceptance Solutions test environment.

The specifics of this testing vaies depending on the connection method the merchant uses. The merchant should send test transactions to Visa Acceptance Solutions that mimic successful, declined, or erroneous transactions.

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