Adding the Vantiv Merchant Account Settings
To enter the merchant account settings for Vantiv, complete the following steps:
Note: These steps must be completed for each merchant account associated to the Vantiv payment gateway.
- Go to a Merchant Account Profile for the Vantiv payment gateway.
- Complete the steps outlined in the Adding Merchant Account Settings help topic. You must repeat these steps for each code that is to be entered for Vantiv.
- Enter each code listed below. You must add every code listed below in order for the Vantiv payment gateway to function properly. A short description of the code and an example value for each code are provided below:
Code | Description | Example Value |
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url | The URL that corresponds to the environment for Vantiv: Test, Pre-live or Live. Check with your implementation specialist for actual URLs. | https://payments.vantivcnp.com/vap/communicator/online |
version | The version of the SDK you are using. | 8.25 |
merchantId | The merchant id given to you by Vantiv. | 12345678 |
username | The username given to you by Vantiv. | COMPANY |
password | The password given to you by Vantiv. | P@ssWord! |
proxyHost | If a proxy is required, this setting indicates the host to make calls to the Vantiv service in the SDK. If a proxy is not required, leave these settings blank. | host.proxy.com |
proxyPort | If a proxy is required, this setting indicates the port to make calls to the Vantiv service in the SDK. If a proxy is not required, leave these settings blank. | 2048 |
printxml | This setting determines if logging should be enabled or not. If the value is true, Vantiv SDK will write to the file found in the logFile setting. Values: true|false. | false |
reportGroup | The reporting group name used for the Vantiv back-end reporting features. | Default Report Group |
knownHostsFile | This known hosts file is required in order to do secure FTP for batch processing. Instructions for how to create this file for pre-live or live environment is found in the Vantiv Batch Processing Configuration Guidance. | C:\Vantiv\hosts |
sftpUsername | The username used to connect to the Vantiv secure FTP site. | FTPUser |
sftpPassword | The password used to connect to the Vantiv secure FTP site. | P@ssword! |
sftpUrl | The secure FTP URL to send and receive files from Vantiv. This URL varies based on environment. Check with your implementation specialist for the actual URLs. | payments.vantivprelive.com |
responseDirectory | This is the directory the SDK uses to store response files downloaded from the Vantiv secure FTP site. | outbound |
requestDirectory | This is the directory the SDK uses to build request files to send to the Vantiv secure FTP site. | inbound |
Additional Information
The Vantiv SDK offers the following codes, but Abila has special advice about these codes: