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This is a simple guide in how to integrate your website with the Blink gateway so that you can accept payments straight from your website. If you require a more advanced integration, please contact our integrations team Integrations Team.

Integration Types

Hosted

The request is made using the urlURL: https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/hosted, with the merchant credentials (MID and signature key), amount, reference and customer details.

When initiated, the hosted integration will redirect the customer from the merchant site to the Blink Gateway , where the customer fills in their card details and pays.

Once the customer has completed the payment, they can redirected be redirected back to the merchant site, the response fields can be collected on the merchant website.

Info

For a smoother experience, use https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/hosted/modal as the url URL and implement the light box method, which will open the gateway in an iframe overlaid on the site, rather then redirecting to a different address.

Benefits

  • Easy Set Upset up

  • Secure (Payment life cycle journey is handled completely by Blink servers)

Disadvantages

  • Multiple redirects Redirects - Customer has to leave merchant site (using the lightbox overlay mitigates this issue).

  • Customisation is difficult (can be done using Hosted Payment Fields SDK)

Direct

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Note

The I.P IP address of the merchant site must be white-listed whitelisted by Blink.

The merchant Site site must have a valid SSL (for 3ds 3DS transactions).

The request is made using the urlURL: https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/direct. It is made directly from the merchant site. All payment details (including card details) must be sent in one request.

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  • More venerable to security issues/ attacks.

  • Set up is more complicated as it requires IP whitelisting and implementing 3ds 3DS checking code.

Request

Required Fields

Field Name

Description

1

Merchant ID

Your Merchant Gateway ID

(Can be found on Take a Payment and Request a Payment)

2

signature

Unique key related to your merchant ID, the signature key is encrypted before the request is sent.

Please contact our support team to find out your signature key.

3

action

The Action requested. Typically, it is SALE

4

amount

The Transaction Amount of the transaction

5

type

1 - E-commerce (ECOM) - standard online payments.

2 - Mail Order Telephone Order (MOTO) - the merchant is inputting the card details.

9 - Continuous Authority (CA) - for recurring and rerunning transactions.

6

countryCode

Merchant’s Location (for UK 826)

7

currencyCode

Transaction currency code (for UK 826)

8

cardNumber

The primary account number (PAN) as printed on the front of the payment card. Digits and spaces only - Direct Integration Only

9

cardExpiryMonth

The card’s expiry month from 1 to 12. - Direct Integration Only

10

cardExpiryYear

The card’s expiry year from 00 to 99. - Direct Integration Only

11

cardCVV

Payment card’s security number. The 3 -or 4 digit number printed on the signature strip. - Direct Integration Only

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Field Name

Description

1

transactionUnique

You can supply a unique identifier for this transaction. This is an added security feature to combat transaction spoofing.

2

customerName

Name of Customer

3

customerEmail

Email Address of customer

4

customerAddress

Address of customer - may be required depending on AVS checks

5

customerPostCode

Post code of customer - may be required depending on AVS checks

6

orderRef

Free format text field to store order details, reference numbers, etc. for the Merchant’s records. Essentially, an additional identifier.

7

redirectURL

URL to which the hosted form will redirect the Customer’s browser after the transaction has been completed. The URL must be fully qualified and include at least the scheme and host components. (Only relevant to Hosted integration)

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Field Name

Description

1

orderDate

Record Date Recorded date of the transaction

2

xref

Refers to a pervious transaction, this is used to rerun or refund previous transactions.

3

captureDelay

Number of days to wait between authorisation of a payment and subsequent settlement.

4

merchantPwd

Additional password to increase authentication security.

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Field Name

Always Returned?

Description

respnseCode

Yes

A numeric code providing the specific outcome. Common values are:

0 - Successful / authorised transaction.

1 - Card referred – Refer to card issuer.

2 - Card referred – Special condition.

4 - Card declined – Keep card.

5 - Card declined

responseStatus

Yes

A numeric code providing the outcome category. Possible values are:

0 – Authorisation Approved / No reason to decline

1 – Authorisation Declined.

2 – Authorisation Error / Transaction malformed.

responseMessage

Yes

Message received from the Acquiring bank, or any error message.

transactionID

Yes

A unique ID assigned by the Gateway.

acquirerResponseXXXX

Depends on the acquirer

Additional Response sent by acquirer

xref

Yes

Used to rerun or refund transactions at a later point.

state

Yes

Transaction state

timestamp

Yes

The time when the transaction was last modified

cardNumberMask

Yes

Masked card number

transactionUnique

If sent in request

Any value supplied in the initial request.

orderRef

If sent in request

Any value supplied in the initial request.

authorisationCode

If transaction was successful

Authorisation code (Auth Code) received from Acquirer.

amountReceived

If transaction was successful

Amount the Acquirer authorised. This should always be the full amount in the request.

cardTypeCode

Yes

Code identifying the type of card used.

cardType

Yes

Description of the type of card used.

cardSchemeCode

Yes

Code identifying the Card Scheme used.

cardScheme

Yes

Description of the Card Scheme used.

cardIssuer

Yes

Card Issues name

cardIssuerCountry

Yes

Card issuing country’s name

cardIssuerCountryCode

Yes

Card issuing country’s ISO-3166 2-letter code

amountRefunded

On If it is a refund

Total amount of original SALE that has so far been refunded. Returned when action is REFUND_SALE

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Code Block
breakoutModewide
languagephp
<?PHP


//Merchant ID 
 $merchantID = ''

 // Merchant Signature key,
 $key = '';

 // Gateway URL
 $url = 'https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/hosted/modal';


 if (!isset($_POST['responseCode'])) {
 // Send request to gateway

 // Request
 $req = array(
 'merchantID' => $merchantID,
 'action' => 'SALE',
 'type' => 1,
 'countryCode' => 826,
 'currencyCode' => 826,
 'amount' => 1001,
 'orderRef' => 'Test purchase',
 'transactionUnique' => uniqid(),
 'redirectURL' => ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on' ? 'https' : 'http') . '://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],
 );

 // Create the signature using the function called below.
 $req['signature'] = createSignature($req, $key);

 echo '<form action="' . htmlentities($url) . '" method="post">' . PHP_EOL;

 foreach ($req as $field => $value) {
 echo ' <input type="hidden" name="' . $field . '" value="' . htmlentities($value) . '">' . PHP_EOL;
 }

 echo ' <input type="submit" value="Pay Now">' . PHP_EOL;
 echo '</form>' . PHP_EOL;

 // Check the return signature
 if (!$signature || $signature !== createSignature($res, $key)) {
 // You should exit gracefully
 die('Sorry, the signature check failed');
 }

 // Check the response code
 if ($res['responseCode'] === "0") {
 echo "<p>Thank you for your payment.</p>";
 } else {
 echo "<p>Failed to take payment: " . htmlentities($res['responseMessage']) . "</p>";
 }

 }

 // Function to create a message signature
 function createSignature(array $data, $key) {
 // Sort by field name
 ksort($data);

 // Create the URL encoded signature string
 $ret = http_build_query($data, '', '&');

 // Normalise all line endings (CRNL|NLCR|NL|CR) to just NL (%0A)
 $ret = str_replace(array('%0D%0A', '%0A%0D', '%0D'), '%0A', $ret);

 // Hash the signature string and the key together
 return hash('SHA512', $ret . $key);
 }

 ?>

Direct Integration (with

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3DS)

Code Block
breakoutModewide
languagephp
<?PHP
// Merchant ID
$merchantID = '';
 // Signature key entered on MMS. The demo account is fixed to this value,
 $key = '61275c33b2d1f';

 // Gateway URL
 $url = 'https://gateway2.blinkpayment.co.uk/direct/';

 
 // Setup PHP session as use it to store data between 3DS steps
 if (isset($_GET['sid'])) {
 session_id($_GET['sid']);
 }

 session_start();

 // Compose current page URL (removing any sid and acs parameters)
 $pageUrl$pageURL = ((isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on') ? 'https://' : 'http://')  . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '80' ? ':' . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] : '')  . preg_replace('/(sid=[^&]+&?)|(acs=1&?)/', '', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
 // Add back the correct sid parameter (used as session cookie may not be passed when the page is redirected from an IFRAME)

 $pageUrl$pageURL .= (strpos($pageUrl$pageURL, '?') === false ? '?' : '&') . 'sid=' . urlencodeURLencode(session_id());
 

 // If ACS response into the IFRAME then redirect back to parent window
 if (!empty($_GET['acs'])) {
 echo silentPost($pageUrl$pageURL, array('threeDSResponse' => $_POST), '_parent');
 exit();
 }

 if (!isset($_POST['threeDSResponse'])) {
 // Initial request

 // Gather browser info - can be done at any time prior to the checkout
 if (!isset($_POST['browserInfo'])) {
 echo collectBrowserInfo();
 exit();
 }

 // Direct Request
 $req = array(
 'merchantID' => $merchantID,
 'action' => 'SALE',
 'type' => 1,
 'currencyCode' => 826,
 'countryCode' => 826,
 'amount' => 901,
 'cardNumber' => '4543059999999990',
 'cardExpiryMonth' => 12,
 'cardExpiryYear' => 22,
 'cardCVV' => '689',
 'customerName' => 'Test Customer',
 'customerEmail' => 'test@testcustomer.com',
 'customerAddress' => '16 Test Street',
 'customerPostCode' => 'Tef 5ST',
 'orderRef' => '3ds3DS tesrt purchase',

 // The following fields are mandatory for 3DS v2
 'remoteAddress' => $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],
 'threeDSRedirectURL' => $pageUrl$pageURL . '&acs=1',

 // The following field allows options to be passed for 3DS v2
 // and the values here are for demonstration purposes only
 'threeDSOptions' => array(
 'paymentAccountAge' => '20190601',
 'paymentAccountAgeIndicator' => '05',
 ),
 );

 // Add the browser info as it is mandatory for 3DS v2
 $req += $_POST['browserInfo'];

 } else {
 // 3DS continuation request
 $req = array(
 'threeDSRef' => $_SESSION['threeDSRef'],
 'threeDSResponse' => $_POST['threeDSResponse'],
 );

 }

 // Create the signature using the function called below.
 $req['signature'] = createSignature($req, $key);

 // Initiate and set curlcURL options to post to the gateway
 $ch = curlcURL_init($url);
 curlcURL_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
 curlcURL_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($req));
 curlcURL_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
 curlcURL_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
 curlcURL_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

 // Send the request and parse the response
 if (($res = curlcURL_exec($ch)) === false) {
 // You should exit gracefully
 die('Sorry, the request could not be sent: ' . curlcURL_error($ch));
 }

 parse_str($res, $res);

// Close the connection to the gateway
curlcURL_close($ch);

// Extract the return signature as this isn't hashed
$signature = null;
if (isset($res['signature'])) {
 $signature = $res['signature'];
 unset($res['signature']);
}

// Check the return signature
if (!$signature || $signature !== createSignature($res, $key)) {
 // You should exit gracefully
 die('Sorry, the signature check failed');
}

// Check the response code
if ((int)$res['responseCode'] === 65802) {
 // Send request to the ACS server displaying response in an IFRAME

 // Render an IFRAME to show the ACS challenge (hidden for fingerprint method)
 $style = (isset($res['threeDSRequest']['threeDSMethodData']) ? 'display: none;' : '');
 echo "<iframe name=\"threeds_acs\" style=\"height:420px; width:420px; {$style}\"></iframe>\n";

 // Silently POST the 3DS request to the ACS in the IFRAME
 echo silentPost($res['threeDSURL'], $res['threeDSRequest'], 'threeds_acs');

 // Remember the threeDSRef as need it when the ACS responds
 $_SESSION['threeDSRef'] = $res['threeDSRef'];

} else if ((int)$res['responseCode'] === 0) {
 echo "<p>Thank you for your payment.</p>";
} else {
    echo $res['responseCode'];
    
 echo "<p>Failed to take payment: :( " . htmlentities($res['responseMessage']) . "</p>";
}

// Function to create a message signature
function createSignature(array $data, $key) {
 // Sort by field name
 ksort($data);

 // Create the URL encoded signature string
 $ret = http_build_query($data, '', '&');

 // Normalise all line endings (CRNL|NLCR|NL|CR) to just NL (%0A)
 $ret = str_replace(array('%0D%0A', '%0A%0D', '%0D'), '%0A', $ret);

 // Hash the signature string and the key together
 return hash('SHA512', $ret . $key);
}

// Return HTML to render a hidden form used to collect some browser details
function collectBrowserInfo(array $options = null) {

 $form_attrs = 'id="collectBrowserInfo" method="post" action="?"';

 if (isset($options['formAttrs'])) {
 $form_attrs .= $options['formAttrs'];
 }

 $device_data = array(
 'deviceChannel' => 'browser',
 'deviceIdentity' => (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) ? htmlentities($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) : null),
 'deviceTimeZone' => '0',
 'deviceCapabilities' => '',
 'deviceScreenResolution' => '1x1x1',
 'deviceAcceptContent' => (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']) ? htmlentities($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT']): null),
 'deviceAcceptEncoding' => (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) ? htmlentities($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']) : null),
 'deviceAcceptLanguage' => (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']) ? htmlentities($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']) : null),
 'deviceAcceptCharset' => (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET']) ? htmlentities($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET']) : null),
 );

 $form_fields = fieldToHtml('browserInfo', $device_data);

 if (isset($options['formData'])) {
 foreach ((array)$options['formData'] as $name => $value) {
 $form_fields .= fieldToHtml($name, $value);
 }
 }

 $ret = <<<EOS
 <form {$form_attrs}>
 {$form_fields}
 </form>
 <script>
 var screen_width = (window && window.screen ? window.screen.width : '0');
 var screen_height = (window && window.screen ? window.screen.height : '0');
 var screen_depth = (window && window.screen ? window.screen.colorDepth : '0');
 var identity = (window && window.navigator ? window.navigator.userAgent : '');
 var language = (window && window.navigator ? (window.navigator.language ? window.navigator.language : window.navigator.browserLanguage) : '');
 var timezone = (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset();
 var java = (window && window.navigator ? navigator.javaEnabled() : false);
 var fields = document.forms.collectBrowserInfo.elements;
 fields['browserInfo[deviceIdentity]'].value = identity;
 fields['browserInfo[deviceTimeZone]'].value = timezone;
 fields['browserInfo[deviceCapabilities]'].value = 'javascript' + (java ? ',java' : '');
 fields['browserInfo[deviceAcceptLanguage]'].value = language;
 fields['browserInfo[deviceScreenResolution]'].value = screen_width + 'x' + screen_height + 'x' + screen_depth;
 window.setTimeout('document.forms.collectBrowserInfo.submit()', 0);
 </script>
EOS;

 return $ret;
}

// Render HTML to silently POST data to URL in target brower window
function silentPost($url = '?', array $post = null, $target = '_self') {

 $url = htmlentities($url);
 $target = htmlentities($target);
 $fields = '';

 if ($post) {
 foreach ($post as $name => $value) {
 $fields .= fieldToHtml($name, $value);
 }
 }

 $ret = "
 <form id=\"silentPost\" action=\"{$url}\" method=\"post\" target=\"{$target}\">
 {$fields}
 <noscript><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Continue\"></noscript>
 </form>
 <script>
 window.setTimeout('document.forms.silentPost.submit()', 0);
 </script>
 ";

 return $ret;
}

// Return a value as hidden HTML FORM fields
function fieldToHtml($name, $value) {
 $ret = '';
 if (is_array($value)) {
 foreach ($value as $n => $v) {
 $ret .= fieldToHtml($name . '[' . $n . ']', $v);
 }
 } else {
 // Convert all applicable characters or none printable characters to HTML entities
if(!$value) $value = " ";
 $value = preg_replace_callback('/[\x00-\x1f]/', function($matches) { return '&#' . ord($matches[0]) .';'; }, htmlentities($value, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8', true));

 $ret = "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"{$name}\" value=\"{$value}\" />\n";
 }

 return $ret;
}


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