Girocheckout API

User Tools

Site Tools

Trace: • PayPal

Sidebar

Introduction

Integration

Basics

Credit Card
Direct Debit
Bluecode
eps
giropay
iDEAL
Maestro
PayPal
Payment Page

Tools

Error codes
Result codes
Test data

SDK

PHP SDK
Java SDK
.NET SDK

Others

API Change log
Plugins Changelog

Imprint
Privacy policy
S-Public Services GmbH

Translations of this page:
en:girocheckout:paypal:start

This is an old revision of the document!

Table of Contents

PayPal

Information about PayPal payment can be found under https://www.girosolution.de/girocheckout/bezahlverfahren.html.

test data

For testing purpose there runs a PayPal simulation page. After initialisation of a PayPal payment the buyer is redirected to a simulation page. There can be chosen if the transaction should be finished successfully or unsuccessfully.

Transaktionsausgang

result code answer type description
4000 successful transaction The payment result can be chosen in the simulation page.
4900 unsuccessful transaction The payment result can be chosen in the simulation page.

workflow

buyermerchantGiroCheckoutPayPal1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (c)2013 by GiroSolution AG

  1. buyer chooses PayPal payment method
  2. merchant initialises PayPal transaction (initialising PayPal payment)
  3. GiroCheckout initialises transaction at PayPal
  4. PayPal submits response to GiroCheckout
  5. merchant gets response about initialisation (if an issue occurs the transaction is finished)
  6. merchant sends redirect URL to buyer
  7. the buyer's browser redirects buyer to the payment form
  8. PayPal shows payment form
  9. buyer authorises payment
  10. transaction is beeing processed
  11. PayPal submits payment result to GiroCheckout
  12. GiroCheckout notifies merchant about the payment result (payment result notification)
  13. merchant processes result
  14. merchant sends HTTP statuscode to GiroCheckout
  15. GiroCheckout sends merchants redirect page to PayPal
  16. buyer clicks “back to the shop” and gets redirected to the merchant (buyer redirection)

API functions

overview

As shown in the workflow there are different API calls during a PayPal transaction.

  1. initialise transaction
  2. payment result notification to merchant
  3. buyer redirection to the merchant (triggered by buyer)

initialise PayPal payment

Torwards a successful initialisation you receive a reference number and an redirect link. The redirect link leads to the payment page of PayPal. He has to be redirected. This can be achieved by a HTTP-Redirect-Header, HTML page with a corresponding Meta-Tag or JavaScript redirect.

request

URL: https://payment.girosolution.de/girocheckout/api/v2/transaction/start
provided by: GiroCheckout
called by: merchant

POST parameters
name mandatory type description
merchantId yes Integer merchant ID
projectId yes integer project ID
merchantTxId yes String(255) unique transaction id of the merchant
amount yes Integer if a decimal currency is used, the amount has to be in the smallest unit of value, eg. Cent, Penny
currency yes String(3) currency
EUR = Euro
purpose yes String(27) purpose
urlRedirect yes String URL, where the buyer has to be sent after payment
urlNotify yes String URL, where the notification has to be sent after payment
hash yes String HMAC MD5 hash (see hash generation)
example
curl -d "merchantId=1234567" \
     -d "projectId=1234" \
     -d "merchantTxId=1234567890" \
     -d "amount=100" \
     -d "currency=EUR" \
     -d "purpose=Beispieltransaktion" \
     -d "urlRedirect=http://www.my-domain.de/girocheckout/redirect" \
     -d "urlNotify=http://www.my-domain.de/girocheckout/notify" \
     -d "hash=19a1f2dae3e6fccc37ea29e025ebfb1a" \
     https://payment.girosolution.de/girocheckout/api/v2/transaction/start

reply

The reply includes a JSON encoded string. The field rc contains the response code. If it is 0 the transaction was successfully initialised. The response also includes a transaction id and a redirect URL to the payment page.

Parameter
name mandatory type description
rc yes Integer response code
msg yes String additional information about the response code
reference optional String unique GiroCheckout transaction ID
redirect optional String redirect URL to the payment page
HEADER parameter
hash yes String HMAC MD5 hash overall the JSON string. (see api call reply)
example in case of success

hash : 43bcc298c042d657506c25bd90812750 

{"reference":"a79985f0-004e-4823-9de4-54fcb45fab37","redirect":"https://payment.girosolution.de/payment/services/paypal/simulate/1196312","rc":"0","msg":""}
example in case of error

hash : f826b7b320bf0115722cc3276319b0a8 

{"reference":null,"redirect":null,"rc":5030,"msg":"Betrag ungültig"}

notification about the payment result

The result of an initialised transaction will be submitted to the prior in the urlNotify parameter specified URL. This notification should be used to update the payment status in the merchant's system. The result of the payment is contained in the field gcResultPayment.

request

URL: notifyUrl of the prior init transaction call
provided by: merchant
called by: GiroCheckout

GET parameter
name mandatory type description
gcReference yes String unique GiroCheckout transaction ID
gcMerchantTxId yes String merchant transaction ID
gcBackendTxId yes String payment processor transaction ID
gcAmount yes Integer if a decimal currency is used, the amount is in the smallest unit of value, eg. cent, penny
gcCurrency yes String currency
gcResultPayment yes Integer payment result codes
gcHash yes String HMAC MD5 hash (see hash generation)

reply

As a reply to the GET request, one of the following HTTP status codes is expected.

HTTP status code description
200 (OK) The notification was processed correctly.
400 (Bad Request) The merchant did not process the notification and does not wish to be notified again.
all others The notification is repeated no more than 10 times every 30 minutes until the merchant returns the status code 200 or 400.

redirection of the customer to the merchant

After completing the payment, the customer may return to the merchant through a link. This return is not done automatically.

request

URL: redirectUrl of the prior init transaction call
provided by: merchant
called by: GiroCheckout

GET parameter
name mandatory type description
gcReference yes String unique GiroCheckout transaction ID
gcMerchantTxId yes String merchant transaction ID
gcBackendTxId yes String payment processor transaction ID
gcAmount yes Integer if a decimal currency is used, the amount is in the smallest unit of value, eg. cent, penny
gcCurrency yes String currency
gcResultPayment yes Integer payment result codes
gcHash yes String HMAC MD5 hash (see hash generation)
en/girocheckout/paypal/start.1413303250.txt.gz · Last modified: 2021/04/12 14:33

Page Tools