Neosurf

Accept Neosurf payments in your online store.

Neosurf is a popular prepaid payment method available in numerous countries, allowing your customers to make online purchases by purchasing prepaid vouchers with a specific value from authorised retailers and using the unique PIN code associated with the voucher to complete transactions on supported websites.

Use the emerchantpay API to accept Neosurf as a payment method across the supported emerchantpay’s payment integrations.

Payment method	Countries/regions
Pre-paid vouchers	Worldwide

Prerequisites

To proceed with this solution, you must have an emerchantpay merchant account. Apply for a merchant account by filling out and submitting this contact form.

You will be assigned an emerchantpay Account Manager, who will provide you with credentials and assist you with any of emerchantpay’s payment solutions.

To integrate with Neosurf, connect to the emerchantpay Genesis gateway using the emerchantpay API. You should have a working knowledge of web programming languages, HTTP methods in XML and JSON formats, and UTF8 encoding. Use the Genesis SDK libraries with code samples to integrate with the gateway in a range of languages. For a solution that requires less development overhead, accept Neosurf payments through the emerchantpay Web Payment Form (WPF). Contact your Account Manager and tell them you want to accept Neosurf through the WPF, and refer to the WPF API.

1. Create a Neosurf payment request

To submit a payment using Neosurf, create a payment request to the emerchantpay Genesis payment gateway. Specify neosurf as the transaction_type.

See the emerchantpay API for the complete list of Neosurf request parameters and code samples.

Example of passing a Neosurf transaction request:

 <payment_transaction>
    <transaction_type>neosurf</transaction_type>
    <transaction_id>119643250547501c79d8295</transaction_id>
    <usage>40208 concert tickets</usage>
    <remote_ip>245.253.2.12</remote_ip>
    <amount>100</amount>
    <currency>NZD</currency>
    <voucher_number>Vo23</voucher_number>
    <customer_email>travis@example.com</customer_email>
    <customer_phone>+1987987987987</customer_phone>
    <billing_address>
      <first_name>Barney</first_name>
      <last_name>Rubble</last_name>
      <address1>23, Doestreet</address1>
      <zip_code>0600</zip_code>
      <city>Auckland</city>
      <country>NZ</country>
    </billing_address>
  </payment_transaction>

Use your staging environment credentials to initially set up and test your integration. Once you are ready to move to production and accept live payments, create a payment request using your production credentials and production URLs.

2. Receive a response

You will receive a Success or Error response to your payment request.

Example of a Success response:

 <payment_response>
    <transaction_type>neosurf</transaction_type>
    <status>pending_async</status>
    <mode>live</mode>
    <transaction_id>119643250547501c79d8295</transaction_id>
    <unique_id>44177a21403427eb96664a6d7e5d5d48</unique_id>
    <redirect_url>https://staging.gate.emerchantpay.net/redirect/to_acquirer/649e1ff35c61</redirect_url>
    <technical_message>Transaction successful!</technical_message>
    <message>Transaction successful!</message>
    <timestamp>2023-07-12T12:53:53Z</timestamp>
    <descriptor>Descriptor one</descriptor>
    <amount>100</amount>
    <currency>NZD</currency>
    <sent_to_acquirer>true</sent_to_acquirer>
  </payment_response>

Use the returned redirect_url to redirect your customer to authorise the payment with Neosurf. See the emerchantpay API for the complete list of Neosurf response parameters and code samples.

Asynchronous notification

Because the Neosurf payment transaction is asynchronous, the result of your customer’s payment is sent as a separate HTTP POST notification from the gateway to the notification_url that you supplied with the transaction request.

Example of a notification for a Neosurf transaction:

“transaction_id”: “f44f2856b5d933c04f42d1e922e30cbf”
“terminal_token”: “871bbbd2f9ce1d58dead9848ef5a24ab59a8ee94”
“unique_id”: “832eb553eba838f79113167cbc1002a1”
“transaction_type”: “neosurf”
“status”: “approved”
“signature”: “b74ed54d95589fce6f9d7a229b225fd4a925e9bc”
“amount”: “100”
“funds_status”: “NOT_EXPECTED”
“account_holder”: “John Smith”
“bank_account_number”: “NL18ABNA0484869868”
“bank_identifier_code”: “ABNANL2A”

The status field provides you with information on the outcome of the transaction. See Transaction States for more information about transaction statuses.

For the full list of notification parameters, see Notifications.

Use the signature field to verify that the notification has been sent by the Genesis gateway. Each session signature is generated by combining the unique_id of the transaction and your API password, and generating a SHA-1 hash function of the combined string.

signature = SHA-1 hash value of <unique_id><API password>

Notification signature examples:

unique_id	API password	signature
26aa150ee68b1b2d6758a0e6c44fce4c	50fd87e65eb415f42fb5af4c9cf497662e00b785	c5219b3d385e74496b2b48a549
3f760162ef57a829011e5e2379b3fa17	50fd87e65eb415f42fb5af4c9cf497662e00b785	14519d0db2f7f8f407efccc9b099

After you have verified the notification state and validity, render an XML page containing the transaction’s unique id to acknowledge that you have received the notification.

Example of a notification reply you use to confirm a notification:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<notification_echo>
  <unique_id>3f760162ef57a829011e5e2379b3fa17</unique_id>
</notification_echo>

3. Test your integration

Before you can accept live payments, you must test your integration in the emerchantpay staging environment.

Add an item to your cart in your online store.
Proceed to the checkout page and check out using Neosurf.
Follow the redirect link in the response.
In the payment simulator, follow the instructions to simulate a transaction.
Complete the order and verify that you are redirected to the order confirmation page.
Log in to Genesis.
In the navigation menu, go to Payment transactions.
Verify that the transaction appears at the top of the list and is successful.

4. Accept live payments

After you have successfully tested your Neosurf integration, you are ready to move to the production environment and accept live payments. Contact your emerchantpay Account Manager to get your login credentials for the Genesis production environment.

To move to the production environment, create payment requests using your production API credentials and production URLs.

You are now ready to accept live payments using Neosurf.

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