Universal 3-D Secure is also available without Embed as long as any payment service has been set up for 3-D Secure. This integration equally supports Dynamic 3-D Secure which can be set up using Flow rules, allowing you to dynamically skip or force 3-D Secure based on anti-fraud decisions, cart items, or any other transaction data.

Usage

All you need to do to use 3-D Secure via the API is to set up 3-D Secure on any of the enabled payment services and pass a redirect_url when creating the transaction.

With 3-D Secure configured for a payment service, we will automatically detect if it is required to get the buyer’s approval for a transaction. If it is required the API will return a transaction with the status buyer_approval_pending and an approval_url that the buyer can be sent to.

{
  "type": "transaction",
  "id": "869df4fc-a3db-43db-806a-14464d9e6920",
  "status": "buyer_approval_pending",
  "payment_method": {
    "approval_url": "https://embed.example.gr4vy.app/...",
    ...
  },
  ...
}

You can then redirect the buyer to the approval_url and we will handle all the intricacies of 3-D Secure. Once the buyer has approved (or rejected) the transaction the browser is redirected back to the redirect_url that was set when the transaction was created.

The redirect_url will be appended with both a transaction ID and status.

https://example.com/callback?transaction_id=123&transaction_status=capture_succeeded

We strongly recommend confirming the actual transaction status by fetching the updated transaction by its id.

Buyers & Billing Details

To optimize 3-D Secure it is highly recommended to provide a buyer with billing details attached to Embed.

A buyer can be set up via our POST /buyers API. The buyer can then be attached to Embed by using the buyerId or buyerExternalIdentifier property. The buyer’s name, email address, and billing address will be used to help reduce buyers being requested to complete a 3-D Secure challenge.

Features

For every transaction, we will handle the following steps.

  1. Detect if any Flow rule explicitly requires or skips 3-D Secure
  2. Detect if the selected payment service for this transaction has 3-D Secure enabled
  3. Detect if the card used in the transaction is enrolled for 3-D Secure
  4. Handle the seamless frictionless 3-D Secure flow including the device finger printing once the user is redirected to the approval_url.
  5. Handle the 3-D Secure challenge flow, where a buyer is directed to their bank to approve the transaction.