topic Re: Collect card info once; charge, create customer profile, payment profile, and subscription via . in Integration and Testing

Collect card info once; charge, create customer profile, payment profile, and subscription via .NET

jkshay — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:31:05 GMT

I'm trying to integrate customer payments via the Authorize.Net .NET SDK. My data flow process is as follows:

When customer converts from free trial to paid subscription mode, I want to:

A. Collect payment information (credit card numbers, addresses, billing names, etc).

B. Via Accept.JS, convert the payment information to a nonce.

C. Use the nonce to charge the customer the first month's subscription rate.

D. Use the success of the charge to determine if I proceed. If successful,

E. Use the transaction ID to create a CIM customer profile, a customer payment profile, and an ARB.

I pass a billTo object of type customerAddressType to the transactionRequestType request object. If I define a first name, last name, or company name on this address, then the call to controller.Executes shows an error that "E00003:The element 'billTo' in namespace 'AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd' has invalid child element 'firstName' in namespace 'AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd'.

Removing the firstName value from my customerAddressType subsequently yields similar errors regarding "lastName" and "company".

If I remove firstName, lastName, and company from my address object, then I'm allowed to successfully create a charge to this card.

However, when I follow it up with a request to CreateCustomerProfileFromTransaction, the created payment profile has no name information associated with it. A quick check in the CIM confirms this.

This presents a problem when I attempt to create the subscription, as the payment profile cannot be used as the billTo address is missing firstName.

Is is possible to create a reusable payment profile from a transaction generated by a nonce/opaqueDataType?

I understand the order of the XML may play a part here, but as I'm using the SDK I have no control over the created XML. Is it even viewable in a log somewhere?

Re: Collect card info once; charge, create customer profile, payment profile, and subscription via .

Anurag — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:59:24 GMT

Hi @jkshay

One you have the accept nonce and done the payment .

You can still use the accept nonce to create the customer profile by passing it in the

Create Customer Profile call

https://developer.authorize.net/api/reference/index.html#customer-profiles-create-customer-profile

opaqueData	Required. Contains `dataDescriptor` and `dataValue`.
dataDescriptor	Required. Specifies how the request should be processed. The value of `dataDescriptor` is based on the source of the value of `dataValue`.	String, 128 characters. Use `COMMON.ACCEPT.INAPP.PAYMENT`for Accept transactions.

Re: Collect card info once; charge, create customer profile, payment profile, and subscription via .

jkshay — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:31:25 GMT

If you change the order of the nodes in the XML, you can generate the same error that I receive in my controller when I call .Execute():

<createCustomerProfileRequest xmlns="AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd"> 
<merchantAuthentication>
<name>XXXXXXXXXX</name>
<transactionKey>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</transactionKey>
</merchantAuthentication>
<profile>
<description>Profile description here</description>
<merchantCustomerId>Merchant_Customer_ID</merchantCustomerId>
<email>customer-profile-email@here.com</email>
</profile>
<validationMode>none</validationMode>
</createCustomerProfileRequest>

will generate this error:

E00003 : The element 'profile' in namespace 'AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd' has invalid child element 'merchantCustomerId' in namespace 'AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd'. List of possible elements expected: 'email, paymentProfiles, shipToList' in namespace 'AnetApi/xml/v1/schema/AnetApiSchema.xsd'.

Be aware that I'm using the .NET SDK and therefore have no control over the order of the XML generated by the SDK.