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vcatalano / py-authorize

A full-featured Python API for the Authorize.net payment gateway.
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How to specify card_type for a purchase?... #9

Closed fredstluka closed 10 years ago

fredstluka commented 10 years ago

How to specify card_type for a purchase?

The docs at:

Show: 'credit_card': { 'card_number': '4111111111111111', 'card_code': '523', 'expiration_date': '04/2014', },

but no mention of 'card_type'. Can I specify it also? If so, what values to use? I assume:

Right? Or uppercase? Or other values? Or not yet supported? Any others?

Thanks! --Fred Stluka

vcatalano commented 10 years ago

Fred,

You actually do not need to specify a card type when submitting card information to the payment gateway. If you need to determine the card type, you can ask the user to specify what card he/she is using or you can determine the type based on a regex (http://www.regular-expressions.info/creditcard.html).

-Vincent

fredstluka commented 10 years ago

Vincent,

OK. That's what I'll do. Thanks!

BTW, the authorizesauce library did accept (perhaps even require) a card_type, and used it to check the leading digit for 4, 5, etc., and reported an error of there was a mismatch. Might be a good feature to add to py-authorize, especially for people coming from authorizesauce.

If I have time, I'll fork your repo, add it, and issue a pull request, but not this week, so you may get to it before I do.

Thanks! --Fred