the body was not in the correct format

Tiehu Jiang

I am using the Blackbaud Checkout form which returns a token that is used to finalize the transaction.

var data = new donation_data
{
amount = (int)Math.Round(model.Cart.TotalAmount * 100),
authorization_token = transactiontoken
};
var body = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);
Above C# code is the body I used to finalize the transaction for Card Not Present transaction. The requestUri to finalize is “payments/v1/checkout/transaction”. It works fine.

What is the body format that is used for Store Card Info transaction?

I changed the transaction_type to ‘store_card_info’ in the parameter that is passed to Blackbaud_Init() in JavaScript and changed the requestUri to ‘payments/v1/cardtokens’ for finalizing. When I use following body:

var body = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new
{
card_token = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
authorization_token = transactiontoken
});

to finalize the transaction, it gives me the error: the body was not in the correct format.

Thanks!

Tiehu Jiang

Daniel Leonard

Thank you for the question. You can find information about API endpoint references here

Tiehu Jiang

Thank you for your reply, Daniel!


I had looked the payment API document and I know the body should be like this:

{<br/>  "exp_month": 2,<br/>  "exp_year": 1985,<br/>  "issue_number": "443",<br/>  "name": "Blackbaud",<br/>  "number": "4111111111111111",<br/>  "valid_from_month": 1,<br/>  "valid_from_year": 1980<br/>}<br/><br/>but when we use Blackbaud Checkout form (see Save Card form), we only get a token for finalizing the store_card_info transaction. How do I get the Credit Card information? I get these information from the return from /checkout/transaction service call in card_not_present transaction.<br/><br/>Thanks,<br/>-Tiehu<br/>

Amanda Glosson

Hi Tiehu

To use Blackbaud Checkout to store a card you wont need any follow up server side request, like you do for capturing a transaction.

After you set the `transaction_type` to `store_card` then checkout will store the card information using the `card_token` you specified using Blackbaud_OpenStoreCardForm(). Here is the preloading checkout docs. And the store card JS docs.

Once the user completes the UI and submits, you dont need to make any additional server side requests for store card.

Hope this helps.

As Daniel points out below we DO have a server endpoint for storing card information but this would be used for non-checkout store card workflows and does put your consuming application into further PCI scope because you would handle the full card information. Alternatively, checkout store card would keep you from having to handle the full card number on your application.

Amanda

Tiehu Jiang

Thank you, Amanda!


This is helpful. It solved my issue.


Tiehu