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 control. Sample transactions follow.

E-Commerce Sale transaction:

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

Retail Sale transaction:

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

Retail manually keyed Sale transaction:

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