Payment Failure Cascading
Re-attempt failed customer transactions to save checkouts
Merchants with more than one payment gateway may wish to support cascading - ie. the immediate re-attempt of a failed transaction at checkout onto a secondary gateway.
Note: Re-attempting payment failures is not recommended for Hard Decline reasons are returned in an initial response. Only Soft Declines are likely to approve upon re-attempt. Your application should parse the Transaction Response Code to decide whether a charge should be re-attempted.
Upon a failed payment transaction, a
card_token is returned in the API response:{
"payment_details": "Unable to process the purchase transaction.",
"payment_response_code": "2000",
"payment_method": {
"card_token:"1hSk5wZmkCtgaC3TOtahuV6Z2R",
}
}
Upon a failed Bankcard transaction, to create a secondary payment attempt (the "cascade" attempt after an initial failure), the transaction request should switch to use
payment_method: "card_token" and then pass the card_token from the initial response."payment_method": "card_token",
"payment_details": {
"card_token": "1hSk5wZmkCtgaC3TOtahuV6Z2R",
"payment_gateway": <gateway_id>
}
On the secondary attempt using the card token, you can specify under
payment_details an alternate payment_gateway to re-attempt a failed charge on the designated secondary gateway.
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