1. Introduction
Vodacom Financial Services offers a service to ecommerce merchants for performing Scheduled Transaction Payments on the Vodacom Payment Gateway (VPG) at a recurring interval determined by the merchant.
This document describes the interface a merchant will use to integrate with VPG to be able to process their scheduled (recurring) payments for their customers,
at regular intervals of their customer's/merchants choosing, via credit card or debit card.
Note: It is a prerequisite that the merchant has been on-boarded by the Vodacom Operations Team before they can perform recurring transactions.
The merchant is also responsible for the scheduling of the recurring transactions.
Only Visa and MasterCard payment types are supported for card tokenisation.
The interface for recurring merchants to integrate to VPG consists of two distinct phases:
- The first phase enables a merchant's customers to make recurring payments by tokenizing their card.
- The merchant submits a once-off payment to validate the customer's bank details.
- The customer's card is tokenised and the merchant is supplied with the token
- Take note, this is a lengthy batch process and runs as scheduled tasks between VFS and the bank. It should never be relied upon to be returned quickly or included in a synchronous user-journey with the customer.
- The second phase describes what the merchant needs to do in order to process scheduled payments for customers.
- The merchant is responsible for scheduling regular payment requests on the Vodacom Payment Gateway on behalf of customers Vodacom does not schedule payments
- The merchant must include the supplied token when submitting payment requests and their Merchant Identifier and Customer Identifier so that Vodacom Payment Gateway.
- Take note, this is a lengthy batch process and runs as scheduled tasks between VFS and the bank. It should never be relied upon to be returned quickly or included in a synchronous user-journey with the customer.
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