Reading Stored Payment Data from QENTA Data Storage

Reading Stored Payment Data from QENTA Data Storage

Prerequisites

Time of reading

After initializing the data storage you are able to read at least the storageId for your current checkout of your consumer. When storing sensitive payment data in the data storage you are able to read it with the below described methods.

Please be aware that your data storage session for a specific consumer is only valid for 30 minutes after the latest read or write access from your side. After this time you have to initialize the data storage again and you have also to store the sensitive payment data of your consumer again.

Each store or read operation extends the validity of the data storage for again 30 minutes.

Using the read data storage operation

You can use the read operation for:

  • Testing if the session with that storageId is still valid or already invalidated,

  • Extending the session lifetime for another 30 minutes and

  • Reading sensitive payment data you stored to this data storage.

Reading data of the QENTA Data Storage

The read operation for the QENTA Data Storage is nearly the same as for the initialization of the data storage:

You send a server-to-server request from your web server to the QENTA Checkout Server to a specific URL containing some specific request parameters.

The URL for the serve-to-server read operation is:

https://api.qenta.com/seamless/dataStorage/read

Please be aware that it is sometimes necessary to enable server-to-server requests within the configuration of your web server. This issue arises typically on provider managed web servers with PHP.

For a proper request you have to set a correct HTTP header. Therefore you need to set the HTTP header elements within your request as described within the Initialization of QENTA Data Storage.

Computing the fingerprint

The fingerprint is computed by concatenating all request parameters without any dividers in between and using the secret as cryptographic key for the hashing function. If you do not use the optional parameter shopId you have to omit it in your fingerprint string.

Please be aware that the concatenation of the request parameters has to be done in the following order:

  1. customerId

  2. shopId

  3. storageId

After concatenating all values to a single string create an HMAC-SHA-512 hash with your secret as cryptographic key. The result is the fingerprint which you add as a request parameter to the server-to-server call.

The QENTA Checkout Server is thus able to check whether the received parameters are manipulated by a 3rd party. Therefore it is essential to keep your secret safe!

Required request parameters

To start the read operation you have to set all required parameters to their corresponding values. If one or more of these parameters are missing you will get an error message.

Parameter Data type Short description

customerId

Alphanumeric with a fixed length of 7.

Unique ID of merchant.

storageId

Alphanumeric with a fixed length of 32.

Unique ID of data storage.

requestFingerprint

Alphanumeric with a fixed length of 128.

Computed fingerprint of the parameter values and the secret.

Optional request parameters

Parameter Data type Short description

shopId

Alphanumeric with a variable length of 16.

Unique ID of your online shop.

Format of return values

After you send the data storage read request as a server-to-server request from your web server to the QENTA Checkout Server you will get the result of the read operation as key-value pairs returned in the content of the response.

Returned response parameters

The following parameters are always returned when querying the data storage.

Parameter Data type Description

storageId

Alphanumeric with a fixed length of 32.

Unique ID of data storage.

paymentInformations

Numeric

Number of stored payment methods.

paymentInformation.{n}.paymentType

Alphabetic

Name of payment method.

Returned payment method specific parameters

The following parameters are dependent on the payment method your consumer chose. Please visit Integration of specific payment methods for further information.

Parameter Data type Description

paymentInformation.{n}.anonymousPan

Numeric with a fixed length of 4.

Anonymized credit card number containing only the rightmost 4 digits.

paymentInformation.{n}.maskedPan

Numeric with special characters and a variable length of 13 to 19.

masked credit card number: first 6 numbers followed by * and he last 4 numbers of the credit card.

paymentInformation.{n}.financialInstitution

Enumeration

Financial institution.

paymentInformation.{n}.brand

Enumeration

Brand of Credit Card.

paymentInformation.{n}.cardholdername

Alphanumeric with special characters.

Name of card holder.

paymentInformation.{n}.expiry

Numeric with special characters.

Expiry date of credit card in format MM/YYYY.

paymentInformation.{n}.accountOwner

Alphanumeric with special characters.

Name of owner of account.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankName

Alphanumeric with special characters.

Name of bank.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankCountry

Alphabetic with a fixed length of 2.

Country code of bank.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankAccount

Alphanumeric with a variable length of 1 to 11.

Account number.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankNumber

Numeric with a variable length of 1 to 8.

Bank number.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankBic

Alphanumeric with a variable length of 1 to 255.

BIC of bank.

paymentInformation.{n}.bankAccountIban

Alphanumeric with a variable length of 1 to 255.

IBAN of account.

Returned optional parameters

These optional parameters enhance the functionality and usability of the payment process regarding specific features and functions. To enable one or more of these parameters please contact our support teams.

Parameter Data type Description

paymentInformation.{n}.hashedPan

Alphanumeric with a fixed length of 128 (hash mechanism HMAC-SHA-512).

Hashed credit card number. Only if payment was successful. Please visit Credit Card for further information.
Please be aware that due to PCI DSS compliance, hashedPan cannot be returned neither with maskedPan nor anonymousPan.

Error cases

If the read operation did not succeed you will get parameters describing the error:

Parameter Data type Short description

errors

Numeric

Number of errors occurred.

error.{n}.errorCode

Numeric with a fixed length of 5.

Numeric error code which you should log for later use.

error.{n}.message

Alphanumeric with special characters.

Error message in English.

error.{n}.consumerMessage

Alphanumeric with special characters.

Error message in localized language for your consumer.

For example a possible error would look like:

error.1.errorCode=11500&error.1.message=CUSTOMERID+is+missing.&error.2.errorCode=11506&error.2.message=REQUESTFINGERPRINT+is+missing.&errors=2