Reference Guide

Login ID:

Transaction Key:

Enter the Login ID and Transaction Key that you created when you set up your AIM account. The Login ID and Transaction Key are specific to your Miva Merchant store and are different from the credentials that you use to login to Authorize.Net.

To find your Authorize.Net Login ID and Transaction Key:

1. Log into your Merchant Interface at https://account.authorize.net.
2. Click Settings in the main left side menu.
3. Click API Login ID and Transaction Key.
4. Under Create New Transaction Key, enter your Secret Answer. Note: When you get a new Transaction Key, you can choose to disable the old Transaction Key by clicking on the Disable Old Transaction Key(s) box. You may want to do this if you suspect your old Transaction Key is being used fraudulently. If you check this box, the old Transaction Key expires immediately. If you do not check this box, the old Transaction Key will automatically expire in 24 hours.
5. Click Submit.

The hash is an additional security feature from Authorize.Net. Enable the hash feature in your Authorize.Net account and enter the hash string they give you here. When a customer begins a credit card transaction, the hash string is set from your on-line store to Authorize.Net as an extra credential.

See https://support.authorize.net/authkb/index?page=content&id=A588

Measured in seconds.

When your on-line store sends a request (authorize/void/capture/refund) to Authorize.Net, Miva Merchant starts a timer. If an identical request (same credit card number, order number, and order total) is sent to Authorize.Net in the duration you set in this field, the first request is kept and the other requests are considered duplicates and are ignored.

Online (Automatic Capture): Authorize and Capture happen right away.

Offline (Authorize Only, Capture Later): Authorization occurs when the user clicks the Submit button in the Payments page in your on-line store. To capture funds you must edit the order in Miva Merchant admin and click on the Capture button.

Note that these settings also affect you when you manually create an order. For example:

1. Set the Charge Method to Sale (Automatic Capture).
2. Manually create an order.
3. Edit the order and click the Authorize button. In the Authorize dialog box, select a payment type associated with PayPal Payments Advanced and click OK.

In the Edit Order screen, you can see that the Capture button is greyed out and the funds were automatically captured after authorization.

Enable this option if you want to run test credit card transactions.

1. Check this box to enable test mode in Miva Merchant.
2. Login to your Authorize.Net account and set your account to test mode.

This feature has been superseded by the Duplicate Window Duration setting. If you are using Discard Failed Order ID, it will still work, but it is no longer needed.

If you enable this option and the customer's credit card fails to authorize:

• The customer stays at the Payment Information screen (OPAY). Any failure message that was generated by the gateway is displayed on this screen.
• A new number is created for the order.
• The customer must wait two minutes to resubmit the order. The delay is needed to force Authorize.Net to discard their order number, so that the new Miva Merchant order number is matched with a new Authorize.Net order number.

Please note that this option can cause errors if you are using a thirdparty module that takes any action with the order number. A third-party module has no way of knowing that the order number has changed and can take actions using an order number that Miva Merchant has deleted. This is not a problem for modules created by Miva Merchant, since those modules will be "aware" that the order number has changed.

If you do not enable this option and the customer's credit card fails to authorize:

• The customer stays at the Payment Information screen (OPAY). Any failure message that was generated by the gateway is displayed on this screen.
• The order number remains the same.

The customer can re-submit their order immediately

Electronic Debit: This is an eCheck product from Authorize.Net that allows your customer to pay by entering their checking account information in your on-line store.

This option only affects you when you are manually creating an order through the Miva Merchant admin interface. If you enable this option, you must enter a CVV2 number in the Authorize dialog box when you create or edit the order. If you do not enable this option, the Authorize dialog box will still have a CVV2 field, but you can ignore it.