Introduction

Overview

Chargent REST API is a payment processing solution that helps businesses accept and process payments online.

Objects

There are six objects involved in Chargent REST API requests and responses.

Object	Definition
Chargent Order	Chargent Orders contain information related to the order such as billing information, total amount, due balance, and charge amount. They are central objects to payments lifecycle management.
Payment Gateway	Payment Gateways track all the configuration settings that Chargent will use to proccess the payments and send requests to the gateway.
Payment Method	Payment Methods are items that may be used to make or take payment.
Token	Tokens are the strings used to represent the payment instrument account details at the gateway or other payment service provider. Payment tokens replace sensitive payment account data with a different data called a “token” and the token strings cannot be decrypted.
Chargent Transaction	Transactions record the results of the requests made to the payment gateway on the Chargent Order. Transactions are also used to make additional requests in the payments lifecycle.
Log	The Chargent Log object retains the history of actions taken in Chargent.

Payments Lifecycle

Businesses have many different needs for payment processing workflows. The general sequence of operations to create a successful payment Sale operation includes the following five steps:

1. Create Payment Gateway
2. Create Payment Method
3. Create Chargent Order
4. Create Payment Authorization
5. Create Payment Capture

Many varitions on this workflow exist, and this sequence may also be followed with additional operations, such as Void and Refund. Additionally, a Sale operation combines an Authorization and Capture into a single payment operation.

Headless Requests

Add the Chargent-Headless HTTP Header to the POST request and Chargent will not store payment gateway response data in Salesforce.

Methods

Chargent supports two methods for headless requests.

Method	Definition
Payment Method Tokenization	Payment Method Tokenization is the exchange of payment data for a token representation provided by the payment gateway for PCI Compliance. This is an initial step in the payments lifecycle.
Payment Sale	Payment Sale will perform both a Payment Authorization and a Payment Capture in a single payment operation request.

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