Sale Method

Sends a Sale transaction to the host.

Syntax

Remarks

A basic sale transaction. This transaction decrements the cardholder's open-to-buy funds for the sale amount. This transaction is automatically added to the current open batch, and will be settled after the current batch is released with the PTechHostSettle component. Sample transactions follow.

E-Commerce Sale transaction:

component.IndustryType = itECommerce
component.GoodsIndicator = giPhysicalGoods
component.CardEntryDataSource = dsManuallyEntered
component.CardNumber = "4444333322221111"
component.CardExpMonth = 1
component.CardExpYear = 2010
component.CustomerAddress = "123 Nowhere Ln." ' optional AVS data
component.CustomerZip = "90210" ' optional AVS data
component.TransactionAmount = "1.00"
component.Sale()

Retail Sale transaction:

component.IndustryType = itRetail
component.CardEntryDataSource = dsTrack1
component.CardMagneticStripe = "B4788250000028291^PAYMENTECH^05121015432112345678"
component.TransactionAmount = "1.00"
component.Sale()

Retail manually keyed Sale transaction:

component.IndustryType = itRetail
component.CardEntryDataSource = dsManuallyEntered
component.CardNumber = "4444333322221111"
component.CardExpMonth = 1
component.CardExpYear = 2010
component.TransactionAmount = "1.00"
component.Sale()