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Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

djdestasio11 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:48:31 GMT

Hi,

For our own accounting purposes, it is necessary for us to know the type of card that was used for each transaction on our site. However, I cannot find any way to retrieve the credit card type of an associated customer payment profile using CIM.

Is there a way to get this information without having to create a lookup table in our database to store it locally every time a payment profile is created or updated?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

stymiee — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:15:57 GMT

The first digit(s) of the number will tell you which kind of card it is.

3 = Amex

4 = Visa

5 = MasterCard

6011 = Discover Card

If you want a more comprehensive list see Wikipedia.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

djdestasio11 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:34:25 GMT

Okay, I did know that. However, I wasn't aware that I could get the entire card number back from CIM unmasked after the profile has been created in order to view the first digits of the card.

How do I accomplish this?

Thanks

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

stymiee — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:26:02 GMT

I don't know where you heard that but it's not true. You cannot get the unmasked number back from CIM or any other API.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

djdestasio11 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:14:36 GMT

Exactly my point... which is why the suggested solution of using the first digits of the card to determine the type doesn't work.

My question was -- is there a way with the APIs to determine the type of card that belongs to a payment profile WITHOUT having to keep a local lookup table that associates each payment profile to a given credit card type when the profile is created -- that seems rather absurd.

We are able to recognize the card type when a new payment profile is created without an issue. What we need is a way to charge a profile that already exists and associate a card type to our local transaction record. Since we don't keep numbers locally and there is no way to get the unmasked credit card -- the only way to make this work that I know of is to create the aforementioned lookup table.

My question is, is there an easier way to via the APIs to get the credit card type of an existing payment profile. We don't care about the number -- in fact, the whole point of us using Authorize.net is that we don't want to know it after it's been created.

We have two distinct merchant accounts and it matters to us what type of card is used for the transaction so that we can match correctly match the transaction to the merchant account.

Make sense?

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

brianhenry — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:46:57 GMT

I ran into this need/problem recently as well. here's what I've found from poking around.

the cim webservice wsdl ( https://api.authorize.net/soap/v1/Service.asmx?wsdl ) indicates you should be able to get the cardType from the credit card info (CreditCardMaskedType) nested in the response to the GetCustomerPaymentProfile call. unfortunately, this doesn't seem to produce any information.

if you need to get card types for specific transactions, you should be able to get that info from the directResponse/AIM response to a CreateCustomerProfileTransaction, if you want to store it at the time of transaction. Alternatively, you can use the new Transaction Details API ( http://www.authorize.net/support/CP/helpfiles/Account/Settings/Security_Settings/transaction_details_api.htm ), once you've enabled it on your account. the response to GetTransactionDetails has a CreditCardMaskedType nested inside it, that is indeed populated with the cardType. So, that would allow for retrieval after-the-fact, if that suits your needs.

for a little more detail:

- for a GetTransactionDetails call, cardtype will be in response.transaction.payment.creditCard.cardType

- for GetCustomerPaymentProfile, it will be in response.paymentProfile.payment.creditCard.cardType

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

TSdotNet — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:13:39 GMT

If I am understanding correctly - you have more than one merchant account for card payments - does that mean you have more than one auth.net account? If not can one auth.net account map to more than on merchant account? I always presumed that you could only use one auth.net account with one merchant account. This is very interesting....

Even beyond that - is it possible to use accounts stored on one CIM (using one set of keys) on a different auth.net payment account (ie. a different set of keys) - I had always presumed CIM profiles needed to be used on the same account they were created....

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

Elaine — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:32:38 GMT

The card type is returned in the 52nd field of the delimited direct response returned with any createCustomerProfileTransactionResponse.

There isn't a method, that I am aware of, of obtaining the card type of a payment profile without storing it locally on your end or processing a transaction and receiving the response that includes this data.

Thank you,

Elaine

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

jeffg — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:04:40 GMT

I am curious as to why the CardType information shows up for CreateCustomerProfileTransaction, but does not show up in GetCustomerPaymentProfile ?

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

Cory — Mon, 09 May 2011 17:58:24 GMT

I'd love to hear an answer for this as well, since the property is there - but is always returned as null.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

Elaine — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:12:08 GMT

Currently the card type is only returned with transaction responses, such as those that are included in the createCustomerProfileTransactionResponse. The addition of the card type was only recently added to the transaction response and well after the release of the CIM API thus it is not included in functions that do not include a transaction response. I have noted your request for the card type to be added to other function responses and have been advised that the request has been placed in the backlog within the group which maintains the CIM feature code. I cannot provide an ETA on when it will be made available however, when it is, an announcement will be placed in the News and Announcements section of this forum.

Thank you,

Elaine

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

ChrisOBS — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:07:39 GMT

Hi,

Similar to the original poster we are in need of retrieving the credit card type for accounting purposes. Was wondering if there had been any updates to the CIM process that allowed this now.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

Trevor — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:40:38 GMT

No, this particular feature has not yet been added to CIM. For now, it is recommended that you store the card type when the profile is created. A workaround would be to run a testMode validation on the profile and check the card type that is returned in the response.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

ascent1 — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:43:01 GMT

Is there any update to CIM API that will give us the Credit Card Type.

The posted notes was that it is in development and hasn't been released as of May 2011. Do you know if this feature has been released now (Dec 2012).

Thanks.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

jgajeway — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:57:58 GMT

Yes, I would like an update on this as well please. I'm running into the same problem, none of the mentioned workarounds produce a credit card type for me (or at least I can't find an exposed property on any of the responses or such that include a credit card type).

Kind of ridiculous IMO that there is no direct method for retrieving a credit card type once the payment profile is stored.

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

treii28 — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:38:29 GMT

bump!

I would like this information retrievable also.

edit:

Holy crap! I just noticed the dates on these original requests. People were asking about this over 2 years ago and it was placed in some backlog and still has not been implemented? What is taking so long???

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

joedonahue — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:03:11 GMT

I'm using the following approach to retriving Card Type. Looks like it may be helpful in this thread.

$request = new AuthorizeNetTD;
$response = $request->getTransactionDetails($authcode);
$response_cardtype = $response->xml->transaction->payment->creditCard->cardType;

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

brianmc — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 16:13:02 GMT

While I realize this is an old post I still wanted to update.

This feature should absolutely have been in our Customer API from the start. The good news is we're implementing the functionality right now and it should be available in an upcoming release. While I can't give you definitive dates I can say we'really talking about weeks away, not months or years.

Thanks for the feedback,

Brian

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

tempoconsulting — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:58:58 GMT

I do see getCardType() and setCardType() methods in the CreditCardMaskedType class, however the getCardType() seems to return nothing. Are these placeholders / not implemented? What happens if one passes a value to the setCardType() method?

Re: Retrieve Credit Card Type of Payment Profile using CIM

saadch8811 — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 06:43:21 GMT

I am unable to get CVV number form GetCustomerPaymentProfile method.
Can anyone help me ?