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Commerce payment provider gateway
What is Magento payment provider gateway
The Magento payment provider gateway is a mechanism that allows you to integrate your stores with payment service providers. As a result, you can create and handle transactions based on order details.
The following diagram shows a simplified interaction flow between Magento sales management and external payment service provider using Magento payment provider gateway:
Magento payment provider supports the following payment operations:
- authorize: process authorization transaction; funds are blocked on customer account, but not withdrawn
- sale: process authorization transaction and capture automatically, funds are withdrawn
- capture: withdraw previously authorized amount
- refund: return previously withdrawn customer funds
- void: cancel transfer of funds from customer account
What’s in this chapter
The topics of this chapter are conceptual and describe the components of the Magento payment provider gateway:
- Payment provider gateway structure
- Gateway Command
- Gateway Command Pool
- Request Builder
- Gateway Client
- Response Validator
- Response Handler
Terms used
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Magento sales management | Magento interfaces that provide the ability to create orders, invoices, and shipments. |
| Payment service provider, payment provider, payment processor | Online service for accepting electronic payments, like PayPal, Authorize.Net and so on. |
| Payload |
Data used for a transaction. Might include the following:
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