topic Re: What is the correct flow of using CIM for receiving CC payments and maintaining the payment prof in Integration and Testing

What is the correct flow of using CIM for receiving CC payments and maintaining the payment profiles

digitech — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 04:13:01 GMT

I have a site in PHP with AIM integration , which is workign fine.

Now i need ot integrate CIM , in order to allow my users to select their exisitng Payment profile Or tocreate new payment profile.

My site has login feature, which creates the session with userId and the emailAddress. I am using these 2 parameters to fetch the Shipping and Payment profile of the logged in user. I am properly gettign the list of my shipping and Payment profiles. in addition to the existing profiles, I am allowing the user to enter a new card info to create a new Payment profile, if he wants to.

When I submit this info to my backend script , it attempts to do the following :

-Attempts to create a user Profile. if the profile is created successfully, it gives the customerProfileId. If the profile already exists with the same email and customerId , it sends the "duplicate error ...." , which i am parsing and getting the customerProfileId.
So, I have the costomerProfileId , in any case.

Now, I attempt to create the customerPaymentProfile. If this is successfully created, then it will return the customerPaymentProfileId , which i can use to create the payment transaction, But what if the profile is duplicate ? As paymentProfile creation doesn't return the Id of duplicate profile. I can't use the existing profile Id.

What is the best solution for this?

Also I am a bit puzzelled in the steps :

Should i create the Profile first and then proceed with the payment using that profile ?
OR Attempt to process payment first ( using AIM ?) and if payment is successful then create the profile?

Not sure if i shoudl ise AIM and CIM both, or just CIM.

Please advice. Thanks

Re: What is the correct flow of using CIM for receiving CC payments and maintaining the payment prof

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:20:30 GMT

get the list of their payment profile and compare the last 4 digit. Do it from the latest one first(highest payment profile ID) to use the latest expiration date.

Also I am a bit puzzelled in the steps :

Should i create the Profile first and then proceed with the payment using that profile ?
OR Attempt to process payment first ( using AIM ?) and if payment is successful then create the profile?

Not sure if i shoudl ise AIM and CIM both, or just CIM.

Just use CIM.

Re: What is the correct flow of using CIM for receiving CC payments and maintaining the payment prof

digitech — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:24:18 GMT

Same is the situation with the duplicate shipping profiles.

If i loop though the exiting Payment Profiles and the Shipping profiles , what are the key fields to match for these profiles.

For the Payment Profiles :
Last four digits of the creditCard->cardNumber

For the Shipping Profiles , Should i match all fields ?
profile->shipToList->firstName
profile->shipToList->lastName
profile->shipToList->address
profile->shipToList->city
profile->shipToList->state
profile->shipToList->zip
profile->shipToList->country
profile->shipToList->phoneNumber

What is the best way?

Re: What is the correct flow of using CIM for receiving CC payments and maintaining the payment prof

RaynorC1emen7 — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:08:58 GMT

In the doc

http://www.authorize.net/support/CIM_SOAP_guide.pdf

under "Duplicate Profile Verification"