The Merchant Approve Transaction request lets you approve or decline transactions with invoice status of PENDING_MERCHANT_REVIEW.

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Important

The API Explorer Try It! feature does not currently send XML requests to our sandbox environment.

For request and response examples, refer to the Examples section.

Request Content

The request must include either the transactionid or merchanttransactionid.

For example:

services/2/transactions/approval?transactionid=38612140&approvetransaction=true

OR

services/2/transactions/approval?merchanttransactionid=MyUniqueMTI&approvetransaction=true

Note: If approvetransaction is not included, true is assumed.

Response Details

If successful, the response HTTP status code is 200 OK and will include the following parameters:

Possible Responses

Examples

Request Example

curl -v -X PUT https://sandbox.bluesnap.com/services/2/transactions/approval?transactionid=38612140&approvetransaction=true \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \ 
-H 'Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
-d '

curl -v -X PUT https://sandbox.bluesnap.com/services/2/transactions/approval?transactionid=38612140&approvetransaction=false \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \ 
-H 'Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=' \
-d '

Response Examples

<merchant-approval xmlns="http://ws.plimus.com">
    <transaction-id>38611602</transaction-id>
    <transaction-status>Approved</transaction-status>
</merchant-approval>

<merchant-approval xmlns="http://ws.plimus.com">
    <transaction-id>38611602</transaction-id>
    <transaction-status>Approved</transaction-status>
    <merchant-transaction-id>MerchantTransactionID122222</merchant-transaction-id>
</merchant-approval>

API Explorer

To test a call, enter an existing transaction ID in the transaction-id field. This automatically inserts the ID into the request URL.