API Responses

Each Ratepay Payment API response contains at least three items of processing information: Status, Result and Reason. Merchants should log this status information for each single Ratepay operation.
The status code indicates if the gateway was technically able to process the operation or not.
The result code is a three-digit number that specifies the result of the processed operation, e.g. "success" or "failure".
The reason code is a number containing more-detailed information on why the transaction was successful or failed, e. g. “Request successful” or “Authentication failed”.
Tip: The "code hierarchy" is as follows: Status Code > Result Code > Reason Code. Explanation: Reason Codes are grouped into Result Codes and Result Codes occur into Status Codes.
Most gateway responses containing a customer message that can be shown to the customer.

Example

payment_request_response.xml
[…]
<operation>PAYMENT_REQUEST</operation>
<response-type>PAYMENT_PERMISSION</response-type>
[…]
<processing>
<timestamp>2018-09-13T10:55:04.000</timestamp>
<status code="OK">Successfully</status>
<reason code="700">Request successful</reason>
<result code="402">Transaction result pending</result>
<customer-message>The verification was successful. Thank you for choosing open invoice as your preferred method of payment.</customer-message>
</processing>
[…]
In the example above you see:
<status code="OK">
<result code="402">
<reason code="700">

Version History

Version
Date
Changes
1.5
January 2022
Structural changes
1.4
January 2021
Added a Quick Start Guide and made some editorial changes
1.3
1.2
1.1
April 2020
Changes to the customer message of reason code 703: Request not successful
Details are provided in the Change summary.
1.0
January 2020
Initial release on GitBook
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