Release Notes

These release notes describe changes to the platform. For more information about a change, please contact us at support@altapay.com.

There are different categories of changes, as explained in the following table: 

Release note type Explanation
[Change] A very important change that you need to be aware of
[API Change] A change to the API
[Feature] A new feature
[Minor] A minor change
[Tech] A technical change

20240828

Change Description
Feature Further Merchant Interface UI/UX improvements
API Change Value returned as response of the verify order callback is now set as the customer error message rather than the merchant error message in our failure callback

20240814

Change Description
Feature Support migration of existing MobilePay Subscription from another PSP to AltaPay. For more information please contact support@altapay.com
Minor New MII UI/UX
Feature Add support for computing the surcharge VAT in PartnerAPI

20240703

Change Description
Feature Added agreements page on Merchant UI (MII)
Minor Improvements and bugfixes for MobilePay subscriptions and Vipps, PayPal and Klarna payments.
API Change Added endpoint to calculate surcharge in our Partner API. Please check Partner API documentation (available upon request).
Tech Improved the core functionalities of Agreements Engine with NETS. This version is recommended in case of having Recurring & Unscheduled agreement use cases.

20240522

Change Description
Feature Added support for setting up agreements via Klarna Recurring.
Feature Added support for generating payment links from the Merchant UI.

20240508

Change Description
API Change Added validation to unitPrice parameter of the orderLines.
Payment Method Update Added Quasi Cash support to Shift4. Hence, the firstname, lastname and postal code of the billing address must be provided.
Form styling Added new credit card form styling defaults
Backend UI Added support for segmented search results across more than one shop
Backend UI Updated menu structure
Tech Update MobilePay Subscriptions integration. This version is required for it to work.

20240327

Change Description
Feature Added option to specify language translations in terminal configuration.
API Change Extended /getTerminals to return custom language translations. Changes required for CheckoutAPI v1.0.1. Compatible sdk-java version >= 1.0.18.

20240313

Change Description
Feature Re-integration with the newest PayPal API for regular payments.
Feature Add support for PayLater.
Feature Add support for PayPal Subscriptions using Vault.

20240214

Change Description
Feature Implemented the new PayPal API to future proof our integration.
Feature Added support for setup a subscription with initial payment via MobilePay Subscriptions.

20240131

Change Description
API Change Extended /getTerminals to return custom payment method description and logo url. Changes required for CheckoutAPI v0.9.10. Compatible sdk-java version >= 1.0.15.
Feature Added support for SafeKey (Amex 3DS) to Elavon US.

20231206

Change Description
Feature Added support for SEPA payment method. Please see SEPA page for more information.
Feature Added support for Trustly payment method. Please see Trustly page for more information.
Feature Added support for Twint payment method. Please see Twint page for more information.

20231108

Change Description
Change Gateway upgrade to php 8.2 version.
API Change Extended /getTerminals to return supported agreement types. Changes required for CheckoutAPI v0.9.7. Compatible sdk-java version >= 1.0.12.
API Change Extended /getTerminals to return shop name for each terminal. Changes required for CheckoutAPI v0.9.7. Compatible sdk-java version >= 1.0.13.

20231004

Change Description
Feature Added support for Open Banking payment method. Please see Open Banking page for more information.

20230927

Change Description
Feature Added support for Payconiq payment method. Please see Payconiq page for more information.
Tech Enhance Klarna Payment integration by adding support for authorisation callback.
Feature Added support for capture_void, refund_void and credit_void statuses with Partner API. Please check Partner API documentation.

20230816

Change Description
Change Credit card forms updated to include Email field. It is required for 3DS to provide a valid email address, which then increases the chances for a frictionless flow, and therefore conversion. You can provide it as part of the customer_info[email] field in createPaymentRequest method, or the payment page will render a new input field to request it. Please ensure you populate the field customer_info[email] to improve the user experience.
Feature Added support for Bancontact payment method. Please see Bancontact page for more information.

20230705

Change Description
API Change Renamed shippingTrackingInfo parameter to trackingInfo and changed the structure on /captureReservation request.
Feature Allow merchants to update tracking info and customer info with KlarnaPayments. Please see /updateOrder method.
Feature Add option to enable customer notifications when their order is updated for KlarnaPayments. Please see Klarna Payments page for more info.

20230412

Change Description
Feature TRA feature is available by using 3DS Adviser module of Finaro during the authentication.
API Change

Enforce the right HTTP methods on all API endpoints. Check the API method pages for the right HTTP method to be used.

SDKs compatible versions:

Change Changes on Credit Card Form Templates: used visibility instead of display property to hide the scheme selection elements (creditCardTypeIcon, creditCardTypeSecondIcon, selectCardLabel)

20230118

Change Description
API Change Add MerchantId to API Response structure (XML)
Feature Direct in App switch to the wallet mobile app, when initiate credit card wallet payments. For more details see Initiate credit card wallet payment in APP page.

20221207

Change Description
Feature Direct in App switch on payments initialised from a mobile app, for finalized wallet transactions. For more details see Mobile App Redirect page.

20221123

Change Description
Feature One Klarna functionality implemented for Klarna Payments.
Feature Allow merchants to reconcile transactions even when it isn't natively supported by the acquirer. See details here.
Minor Update Terms and Conditions for merchants with Danske Bank partnership.
Feature Added Agreements Engine (Card On File) support for Rapyd.

20221026

Change Description
API Change /getTerminals now return the payment methods configured
Feature Added dynamic javascript flow using AltaPay native integration.

20221012

Change Description
Feature Added Agreements Engine (Card On File) support for Elavon US.
Feature Added support for grid-row CSS in payment form to automatically adjust input tabindex and autofocus

20220928

Change Description
Feature Streamlined the error codes in APMs:
  • Finaro
  • Rapyd
  • Pbs / NETS
Feature Ensured compliance against MasterCard policy in Finaro acquirer regarding when and how a declined transaction is eligible to be submitted again.

20220817

Change Description
Feature Start of streamlining the error codes provided by the system and their meaning. Covered components:
  • Payment Flow

Information on new error codes can be found here: Error Codes List
The streamline of error codes will get improved with each release until the whole system will get covered.
Feature Fraud protection (ACI/RED Shield) integration was updated
Integration was upgraded to the new version, which will allow for more granular configuration of the rules
API Change Changing order amount and order lines is available with Shift4 (formerly Finaro).
Documentation for updateOrder call is available here
Feature Support ElavonUs Acquirer with 3DSv2 authentication

20220622

Change Description
API Change Added <FundingType> field to XML response of fundingList
Feature Enabled support to handle Vipps Subscriptions.
Information about supported features and limitations can be found here.
Information about the integration can be found here.
Feature Sofort now supports merchants having bank accounts in the following countries.
Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia

20220525

Change Description
API Change CardInformation added to payment response. See API Payment Response transaction
API Change Form Placeholders made available, see here.
Feature Enabled support of Klarna US API.
Feature Enabled support for handling static data into a centralized place within the gateway by adding a new General Config page.
Feature Enabled support to handle MobilePay Subscriptions static data in the General Config page.
Feature Improved the VisaDankort customers user experience by allowing them to chose which scheme (Dankort/Visa) to use when doing an online payment directly into the payment form.
Feature Enabled support for ApplePay on Rapyd acquirer.
Feature Enabled support for ApplePay on Nets acquirer.
Feature Added support for merchant administration page of MobilePay Subscriptions agreement.
Tech Enhanced the EMVco compliance of tokenized payments by storing specific data behind the scenes.
Tech Improved the card type handling process behind the scenes to streamline the types and subtypes accros the internal components.
Tech Improved the gateway security by allowing only https URL to be saved on terminal configurations.

20220427

Change Description
Feature MobilePay Subscription integration is available on Test Gateway.
Information about supported features and limitations can be found here
Feature Changing order amount and order lines is available with KlarnaPayments.
Documentation for updateOrder call is available here
Feature Testing of CreditCard Wallet flow with subscriptions is available in test gateway.
Test cases can be found here
Change Added validation of the cardholder name in the credit card form. This will make sure that an authorisation request cannot be submitted in case of invalid characters.

20220330

Change Description
Feature Bank Refund files can be download via API calls
Check documentation for more info here
Feature Updated how agreement object is being sent to createPaymentRequest
Changes can be found here
Tech Updated Agreements Engine documentation

20220302

Change Description
Feature Initial integration to MobilePay Subscriptions
Currently supported in test environment:
  • Setup subscription (recurring)
  • Setup subscription (unscheduled)

Contact support for more information
Tech Improvements to Agreement Engine flow:
  • Fixed verifyCard
  • Added support to 3DSv1

Minor clarifications to documentation of Agreement Engine
Bugfix Fixed Redirect callback page to work as documented. Previous behaviour (which would trim all the styling/elements from HTML page) preserved for existing integration compatibility.
To change this behaviour please contact support. All new terminals will have fixed behaviour. Read more about callback_redirect here here

20220119

Change Description
Feature Initial implementation of Agreement Engine support on Credit Card Wallet flow (i.e. MobilePay Subscriptions)
Feature Support Shift4 (formerly Finaro) using new Agreements Engine
Tech Improvements to 3DSv2 Flow notification on timeout when user is inactive too long during the challenge flow

20211124

Change Description
Feature Support SCA in chargeSubscription and reserveSubscriptionCharge API Methods
Feature Agreements Engine (See more details here)
Tech Enhance and improve the general customer experience regarding tokenized payments via Vipps & MobilePayOnline wallets.
Tech Fix and improve SCA support for tokenized payments.
Tech Enhance Shift4 (formerly Finaro) integration with MobilePayOnline & Vipps.

20210901

Change Description
Minor Translation improvement for Finnish language

20210818, 20210819

Change Description
Feature Add support for the EMVCo Tokenized Protocol with MobilePay for Shift4 (formerly Finaro) and Rapyd. Please refer to MobilePay integration, regarding 3DS fallback scenarios
Change Exponent for ISK Amount is not supported. Please make sure you send the amount with 0 as exponent (.00) or no exponent at all.

20210721

Change Description
Feature Add support for NETS 3DSv2 integration
Feature Add support for persisting card holder name when performing a tokenized payment
Tech Enhance iDEAL PPRO integration
Tech Update Visa logos according to new Visa Brand Guidelines

20210623

Change Description
Tech General improvements of the system stability
Tech Improved error handling during 3DSv2 decline and error flow

20210324, 20210325

Change Description
Feature Add support for the EMVCo Tokenized Protocol with Vipps for Shift4 (formerly Finaro) and Rapyd.
Feature Add support for Amex 3DS transactions with the Shift4 (formerly Finaro) 3DS service for Nets/Teller.

20210310

Change Description
Feature Add support for SafeKey 2.0
Feature Support specifying transaction_info in chargeSubscription and reserveSubscriptionCharge API Methods
Change Callback notifications for MobilePay, Vipps, Swish and 3DSv2 are asynchronous. Please make sure you review the integration best practices.

20201218

Change Description
Change

Add support for specifying "XI" for "Northern Ireland". Understand that this EORI number is solely to be used for taxation purposes, and does not correspond to an ISO 3166 country code.

Note! This change allows us to pass your requests on to the relevant acquirers, but we cannot guarantee that any given acquirer has also implemented this, so the request may end up failing after all. In such cases, you need to fall back to using the "GB" country code.

Further information is provided here:

20201216, 20201217

Change Description
Feature Add support for EMV 3DSecure with Credit Card payment methods: Shift4 (formerly Finaro), Nets/Teller and Rapyd
Feature

Support 3DS Fallback with Vipps and MobilePay

Check documentation for more information here (customer_info[cardholder_name])

Feature Support Unscheduled Agreement delayedCharges and incremental with Shift4 (formerly Finaro)

20201125

Change Description
Feature Enable EMVco 3D Secure payment flow. Please consult SCA documentation for more information

20201021

Change Description
Feature Enable support for Agreements. Please consult documentation for more information

20201005

Change Description
Feature Add multi-capture support to Shift4 (formerly Finaro)

20200828, 20200829

Change Description
Change Support for IPv6

20200602

Change Description
Change Support for the new MobilePay Online API

20200420

Change Description
Feature PaymentForms have been updated to optionally accept type-in instead of drop-down

20200326

Change Description
Minor Exact same as 20200325

20200325

Change Description
Change VIPPS backend update for better info in VIPPS app

20200224

Change Description
Change Klarna Payment KP (will replace Klarna KPM Sept. 1st)

20200131

Change Description
Tech Bug fixes and platform improvements

20200117

Change Description
Tech Forms have been updated for compatibility with screen readers

20191023

Change Description
Tech Cardholder name field can optionally be hidden

20190906

Change Description
Tech 3D Secure v. 2 refinement

20190902

Change Description
Tech 3D Secure v. 2 and support for cardholder name

20190528

Change Description
Tech Streamline platform error reporting mechanisms

20190416

Change Description
Feature Add support for POS-refund

20190319

Change Description
Tech Update of the credit-card encryption technical stack

20190205

Change Description
Tech Platform improvements to support upcoming upgrade of credit-card encryption technical stack

20190122

Change Description
Feature Added PPRO/iDEAL integration

20181211

Change Description
Minor Updated card icons on form pages to high resolution images

20181016

Change Description
Feature Added support for Vipps. Please contact support@altapay.com for information
Tech Swish: Payment statuses are updated automatically

20180821

Change Description
Tech Platform improvements

20180807

Change Description
Tech Added support for 8 digit credit card bin lookup

20180724

Change Description
Tech Internal improvements on the platform core

20180710

Change Description
Feature Gambling merchants with such an agreement with NETS, may now make refunds
Tech Deprecated merchant/API/reservationOfFixedAmount in favour of merchant/API/reservation

20180626

Change Description
Tech More internal improvements on the platform core, bug fixes

20180612

Change Description
Tech Internal improvements on the platform core, bug fixes
Tech Elavon US integration improvements
Feature Support for MasterCard final auth and pre-auth with Shift4 (formerly Finaro)

20180529

Change Description
Tech Internal improvements, comply with security standards for the connection to the fraud service and acquirers

20180501

Change Description
Feature Support ElavonUs Acquirer with ApplePay was added. Please contact support@altapay.com for information.

20180417

Change Description
Api Change Added IsTokenized to the XML API Response

20180403

Change Description
Feature Added support for credit flow with Shift4 (formerly Finaro) acquirer. Please contact support@altapay.com for information
Tech Internal improvements, including updates to the partner API

20180320

Change Description
Feature Finalized ApplePay Test Integration
Feature Support AltaPay Acquirer with ApplePay was added. Please contact support@altapay.com for information

20180220

Change Description
Feature ApplePay test capabilities were added. Please contact support@altapay.com for information
Change Old tokens no longer can be used if new token for credit card was generated
Minor The column "Created at" has been added to the custom-report "Transactions with funding data". This displays the time of which the funding report containing the transaction became available on the gateway

20180109

Change Description
Change Credit card token format has been changed - it is no longer 40 characters, but 90
Change Payment_source was added to the XML Response in notifications
Change Liability status is changed for 3D Secure by Nets. 3D secure result has new value and merchant is still liable in this case: Successful_Forced_Merchant_Liability (Merchant has liability)

20171212

Change Description
Minor Now it is possible to disable 3DSecure for Nets acquirer if merchant is eligible for that. Please contact support@altapay.com for more information

20171024

Change Description
Change HSBC terminals now validate that Merchant Category Code (MCC) consists of 4 digits. Thus, if an MCC<1000, it should be padded with zeroes
Minor Nets requires a special agreement for gaming companies (Code of Business = 7995) in order to perform subscriptions for Dankort and VisaDankort. Please contact us at support@altapay.com for information

20170801

Change Description
Tech Several internal system improvements, including encryption and certificate updates related to MasterCard, 3DSecure by Nets, and MobilePay

20170620

Change Description
Feature Added support for multiple refunds when using Converge/ElavonUs
Change Deprecated the API endpoint /processor/API/reservationOfFixedAmount in favor of /processor/API/reservation. This affects only the url of the endpoint. The functionality remains the same

20170606

Change Description
Minor Masked inputs on payment form
  • The invoice form will mask the Social Security Number information when the consumer types it except for Santander
  • The bank payment form will mask the Account Number information when the consumer types it (Elavon)

20170523

Change Description
Tech Enhancement of the platform in regards to Security

20170425

Change Description
Change We have tightened security around user accounts in order to conform to the PCI DSS 3.2 standard:
  • User accounts will be disabled when they have not been used for 90 days. You may contact us at support@altapay.com to re-enable them.
  • User accounts will be blocked after 5 failed login attempts. Should this happen, the user will receive an e-mail notification. It is therefore important that even API accounts have valid and monitored email addresses associated with them.
  • API/PSP user accounts will now have only the Merchant permission. Existing API/PSP accounts will be stripped of other permissions, and some merchants may need to have new separate front-end user accounts made.
Change The way users recover forgotten account passwords has changed: Now, when you click the "Forgot your password?" link and submit the form, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a one-time link. Clicking that link will reset your password

20170328

Change Description
API Change Added a correctly spelled element SurchargeAmount to the response of the API/calculateSurcharge. Please switch to using this new element as soon as possible, as the misspelled element (SurchageAmount) is deprecated (the removal is to be announced at a later date)

20170228

Change Description
API Change

Added versioning of the Processor API (this is not used much, so if you are unsure on what it is you are most likely not using it). By default we will use the new version, let us know if this should be set to the old one after upgrade.:

  • 20161213: Uses the old 3D Secure flow. Does not support NETS 3D Secure flow.
  • 20170228: Supports both Visa, Mastercard and NETS 3D Secure flow.
Feature Added support for 3D-Secure by nets
Feature Added support for filtering the funding file list. Funding files created later than 2017-02-28 are extended with a funding type indicator (currently either ECOM or POS), that is also viable for filtering

20170214

Change Description
Feature Added support for gift cards via SVS

20161213

Change Description
API Change Added validation of the customer_created_date field for API/createPaymentRequest. The enforced format is yyyy-mm-dd. The field is still optional.
API Change Added API endpoint API/updateOrder which allows to update order lines for Invoice payment solutions. See API_updateOrder for more information.
API Change Deprecated the use of the customer_info[checksum] parameter on API_createPaymentRequest and API_createInvoiceReservation

20161025

Change Description
Tech Improvements on the platform core in preparation for Black Friday
API Change Added validation of the customer_info[billing_country] field. It must be set to a valid 2 character ISO-3166 country code
API Change Added validation of the customer_info[shipping_country] field. It must be set to a valid 2 character ISO-3166 country code

20161011

Change Description
Tech Improvements on the platform core in preparation for Black Friday
Minor BsKaai has now two authorisation flags available: 
  • preAuth Any capture amount any time.
  • finalAuth Full capture within 3 days.

Please contact us at support@altapay.com for information.

20160830

Change Description
Feature Klarna: Added support for good-will refunds, which can be used to refund an amount independent of the order lines, see Payment Types

20160719

Change Description
API Change Added surcharge_amount parameter to ChargeSubscriptionRequest and ReserveSubscriptionChargeRequest. In addition to the payment amount, it is now possible to specify a surcharge as a separate amount
API Change Added support for issuing gift cards with the test acquirer through the processor API. See API_issueGiftCard for more information
Feature When you release a subscription payment, it will go into a released state regardless of what the acquirer responds. This means that once you have told us to release a subscription, all future charges will be prevented

20160607

Change Description
Feature Added support for Swish payments in Sweden. Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you are interested in this.
Minor Removed deprecated sales reports (Excel based)
Change Paypal payments will now more often go into open state, as we have changed the way we analyze the response from paypal. If you are using paypal please verify that you do support open state as part of the payment flow

20160524

Change Description
Feature Added support for MobilePay payments in Norway and Finland. Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you are interested in this.
Minor Changed translation for "Accept new shipping address" in invoice payment flows from "Godkänn en ny leveransadress" to "Godkänn folkbokförings adress som leveransadress"

20160426

Change Description
API Change When creating invoice payments, until now you could not provide both tax percent and tax amount. Now you may, as long as the the calculations yield similar subtotals.
Feature Added support for creating Klarna invoice payments through the merchant api, see documentation.

20160315

During this sprint we worked on a series of smaller stories.

Change Description
Feature

Added support for splitting Santander’s products (Norwegian invoice solution) across terminals. The feature supports the fact that you as a merchant have more freedom to decide the checkout flow in terms on when the consumer is introduced to the different consumer financing alternatives.

  • Q. What kind of consumer financing does Santander offer?
  • A. Santander offers a wide range of financing options. On a high level it make sense to split “Pay later” and “Pay a fixed monthly amount". Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you are interested in using Santander in Norway.
Feature Added support to handle non 3D Secure card types on terminals which are 3D Secure enforced. The terminal will only enforce 3D Secure on card types that supports it, so it is possible to accept payments from cards like Diners and Dankort. It is however still possible to maintain the old setting, which declines non 3D Secure card types. Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you have a 3D Secure enforced terminal, but want to support non 3D Secure card types
Feature From now on 3D Secure Enforced will allow transactions marked as "attempt" in 3d secure, as that still signifies a liability shift

20160301

During this sprint we have focused on enhancement of internal tools and providing solutions based on request from acquirers and authorities.

Change Description
[Feature]

Added support for Open state on iDEAL payments. When upgraded to this version you should set the open callback as well if you are using iDEAL.

  • Q. What is an Open state?
  • A. When the form has been submitted to our gateway the input is validated and the payment is processed. A payment can result in three different states; Success, Failure or Open. With an Open state the payment result is known at a later time.
Feature Due to SEPA regulation transactions can be processed without the BIC inside the European Economic Area and has take effect 1st of February 2016. Therefore, we have added support for using an IBAN instead of a regular bank account number and bank code. CPlease contact us at support@altapay.com if you want to enable IBAN for your bank to bank payments
Minor Based on a request from the Norwegian Consumer Ombudsman the wording on the submit button for Norwegian has changed from "Send" to "Bestill"

20160202

During this sprint we have focused on merchant requests. We also made some changes in the way the merchant can search for specific payments.

Change Description
Feature

Sophisticated payment form on public computers. Please contact us at support@altapay.com for more information or if you want to enable the feature.

  • The payment form will mask the card information (card number and CVC) when the consumer types it
  • The payment form will automatically redirect to a fail page when the consumer has been idle for the amount of time set as timeout
API Change Added support for passing gender to customer info in createPaymentRequest and createInvoiceReservation. Gender is also returned in the callback xml.
API Change Added support for passing in client_ip, client_session_id, client_accept_language, client_user_agent and client_forwarded_ip to createInvoiceReservation
API Change The API/payments method now only supports searching for specific payments by paymentId/transactionId or orderId. The maximum number of results have been decreased to 10 to reflect this. It is still possible to filter further by terminal and shop, but these filters cannot be used on their own

20160105

During this sprint we have focused on providing general solutions to requirements from acquirers in order to keep your integration as acquirer agnostic as possible.

Change Description
API Change Added CardHolderMessageMustBeShown (boolean) to the <Body> of the API response. When this value is true you must show the value of <CardHolderErrorMessage> to the user. Some acquirers requires certain messages to be shown
API Change Added cardholder_message_must_be_shown (boolean) post field to OK and Fail callbacks. When this value is true you must show the value of <error_message> to the user. Some acquirers requires certain messages to be shown
API Change Added ReasonCode (string) to <Transaction> in the payment XML. For now it contains codes for open statuses and describes who the payment is waiting for (consumer or acquirer) (see full list)
API Change Added additional statuses to Result xml so it better describe status of the payment (Success, Failed, Error, Open, PartialSuccess, Incomplete)
API Change In callbacks status parameter will describe what type of status payment has (succeeded, failed, error, open, incomplete, PartialSuccess)

20151222

During this sprint we finalized a new integration to increase our invoice payment offering in Norway.

Change Description
Feature Finished integration to Santander Norway. Santander Norway is a Norwegian invoice provider with three different products in their portfolio. Please contact us at support@altapay.com for more information:
  • Here & Now (Credit limit 1990 NOK - 50 000 NOK)
  • Here & Now Student (Credit limit 1990 NOK - 20 000 NOK)
  • Invoice (Credit limit 1990 NOK - 20 000 NOK)
API Change Acquirer titles in the funding file list have been generalized to support that we have multiple connections to some acquirers. The acquirer titles will be one of the following:
  • BS_CARD_SERVICE
  • AMEX
  • CREDORAX
  • ELAVON_UK
  • ELAVON_US
  • PAYPAL
  • GLOBAL_PAYMENTS
  • altapay
  • AVARTO
  • KLARNA
  • NETS/TELLER
  • TEST

20151124

During this sprint we finalized a new integration to increase our invoice payment offering in Denmark and investigated a new connection in order to add more payment options on our platform.

Change Description
Feature

Finished integration to ViaBill. ViaBill is a Danish invoice provider with two different products in their portfolio:

  • ViaBill Free (Credit limit 1 - 2000 DKK)
  • ViaBill Xtra (Credit limit 2001 DKK - 10 000 DKK)

20151110

During this sprint we have finalized a new integration to increase our mobile payment offering and investigated new connections in order to add more payment options on our platform.

Change Description
[Feature] Finished integration to Pingit. Pingit allows consumers to pay their merchant for goods or services using their mobile phone in the UK. Please contact us at support@altapay.com for more information

20151027

During this sprint we have focused on specific merchant requests and integration to new payment methods to increase our offering.

Change Description
Minor Support the payment form in Russian and Lithuanian.
Minor iDeal merchants: future refunds will be gathered in one batch which means that you only will be billed by the batch and not by the number of refunds
Minor HSBC merchants with merchant category code 6012 need to customer birth date, billing address and billing postcode (see documentation)

20150929

During this sprint, a lot of effort was put into internal enhancements of the platform.

Change Description
Feature Added payment window support for iOS' standalone mode (see documentation)
Minor Improvements to PPS integration
Minor Improvements to Elavon US integration

20150915

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on enhancement of internal tools, integration to Elavon US/Converge and investigating upcoming connections to more payment options in order to increase our offering.

Change Description
Feature Added support for dynamic descriptor with Shift4 (formerly Finaro). Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you want to use this feature
Feature Added integration to Elavon US' new platform Converge
Minor If an ePayment (e.g. PayPal) is cancelled by the user, the status in the callback xml is now set to cancelled instead of error. If you use our C# sdk, contact us at support@altapay.com to get an updated version

20150818

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on enhancement of internal tools, integration to MobilePay and investigating upcoming connections to more payment options in order to increase our offering.

Change Description
Feature Added support for allowing customer to change the amount of the payment on the payment form (see documentation)
Feature Added automatic reports that helps you monitor the chargeback levels for VISA and MasterCard. Please contact us at support@altapay.com if you want to know more
Feature Added integration to MobilePay. Please contact us at support@altapay.com for more information
Minor Added acquirer column to the .csv of the transactions report
Minor Sofort refunds from non-german accounts are now declined by the gateway, as they would be declined by Sofort anyway

20150804

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on system optimization enhancement of internal tools as well as integration to gift card solution providers for gift card payments.

Change Description
Feature Added support for gift card payments via PPS. If you accept, or wish to accept, gift cards, contact us at support@altapay.com.
Minor Calling releaseReservation on a payment created with the auth type 'payment', but completed with the auth type 'paymentAndCapture' (due to missing acquirer support for 'payment), will now result in that payment being refunded (instead of just failing)
Minor The german language submit button has been changed from 'Übermitteln' to 'Bestellung abgeben' to better match EU regulations.

20150707

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting some merchant-specific requirements, enhancement of internal tools as well as on PCI compliance checks so as to ensure that customers' payment card data is kept secure.

Change Description
Feature Added support for capturing other order lines than were reserved on Klarna. This makes it possible to modify an order line before it is captured, so long as the amount remains the same

20150609

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting some merchant-specific requirements as well as system optimization and security enhancement in some of our communication channels.

Change Description
Feature The credit card form now automatically adds spaces to the card number while you type it. This should make it easier for users to verify if they are typing correctly
Minor createPaymentRequest now accepts the payment_source parameter
Minor Added new payment source values mail_order and telephone_order. For fraud detection, being able to distinguish phone orders from mail orders can come in handy (these would normally be grouped as one under the moto value
Minor Klarna: the payment source moto is now treated as telephone_order
Minor Added support for sending unique customerID from merchants to Klarna for easy Klarna verification / approval of the customer
Tech eCommerce api methods now return http 405 on request methods other than GET and POST

20150526

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting merchant-specific requirements as well as upcoming connections to gift card solution providers for gift card payments in order to increase our offering

Change Description
Feature Support for gift card payments. Currently only a test gift card provider is available. If you accept, or wish to accept, gift cards, contact us at support@altapay.com.
Feature Added processor/API/initiateGiftCardPayment endpoint
Feature Added merchant/API/queryGiftCard endpoint
[Minor] createPaymentRequest response xml now contains the <PaymentRequestId>
Minor The postback xml now contains the <SurchargeAmount>
Minor The postback xml can now have status PartialSuccess, which means that only part of the requested amount was paid (used only with gift cards)
Minor API Response xml now has the version 20150526
Minor Included the PayPal Seller protection in our PayPal Integration for merchants who may be interested in this scheme
Minor If the customer is directed to our payment page, but the payment has already been paid in full, instead of showing the payment page, we now show the cached ok page / redirect if we have it

20150428

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting merchant-specific requirements as well as system optimization and enhancement of internal tools.

Change Description
Major The merchant API endpoint API/reservationOfFixedAmount now accepts the same customer_info array as other endpoints. Old integrations sending the fields as 1st level fields will still work, but the new fields are only supported via the customer_info array
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  • [Feature] Added support for refunds through BNP Paribas iDeal and ING iDeal.
  • [Minor] Added a styleable div around the account terms for invoice payments.
  • 20150414
  • During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting merchant-specific requirements as well as investigation/scoping of upcoming connections to more payment options in order to increase our offering
  • [Feature] Added support for iDeal payments through BNP Paribas.
  • [Feature] Added support for iDeal payments through ING.
  • [Minor] Releases are now performed with the reserved amount to avoid confusion as to how much was released (no changes to integration).

20150317

During this sprint we did a lot of merchant specific developments which are not part of the gateway.

Change Description
Feature Added a new rules engine, which gives us much more flexibility to handle complex merchants specific scenarios when selecting the acquirer for payments
Minor Added stricter validation of the transaction_info parameter. It must be an array of values that can be seen as strings

20150303

During this sprint we focused on system optimization, investigation of upcoming connections as well as some development which are not part of the gateway.

Change Description
Feature Added support for 3D Secure validation with VerifyCard on AltaPay

20150217

During this sprint we also did investigation/scoping of upcoming connections to more payment options in order to increase our offering

Change Description
Feature Added iDeal logo to the iDeal form, with option to customize (defaults to old behavior)
Feature Added support for subscription without initial charge or reservation for Shift4 (formerly Finaro)
Minor Improved documentation of the custom submit button functionality (deprecated "PensioSubmitButton" and switched to "CustomAltaPaySubmitButton").

20150203

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting some merchant-specific requirements as well as system optimization and enhanced security.

Change Description
Feature Added email notification for ready-for-download PAIN files (iDeal/Sofort refund files) with a direct link to the file.
Feature Added support for Release Subscription and Release Reservation on Shift4 (formerly Finaro).
Minor Enabled logging of user details in the back-end when a user creates a MO/TO payment
Minor The login is now able to redirect you back to the page you tried to see (if applicable)

20150120

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on meeting some merchant-specific requirements as well as enhancement of internal tools.

Change Description
Feature Added support for 3D Secure payments on Teller
Tech Added "ReferenceText" and "AccountNumber" to funding list reponse XML

20141118

During this sprint we focused on system optimization for increased efficiency and did some merchant specific development which are not part of the gateway.

Change Description
Feature Enabled chargeback notification for our merchants using Shift4 (formerly Finaro)
Feature Enabled the use of iframe-based payment forms to improve user experience
Tech Payment IDs are now UUIDs. The numeric ID is still rolled and functional

20141104

During this sprint, a lot of effort was expended on merchant specific integration and improvement of internal tools.

Change Description
Feature Enabled the pulling of reports for failed captures and refunds thus enabling our merchants to investigate the causes and to make proactive business decisions
Feature Made cosmetic changes to the boarding form in order to optimize the boarding process and improve user experience

20141021

During this sprint we also did a lot of internal work to optimize the performance of our system and to meet some merchant specific requirements.

Change Description
Feature Enabled opening of individual payments on a different tab, (using the mouse's middle button) to improve user experience
Feature Added a link to the PaymentID column in custom report for ease of navigation between custom report and the actual payment
Feature Improved the performance of data collection for Search and Reporting
Feature Implemented "pending status" for Klarna transactions so as to reduce the number of failed transactions and increase conversion for merchants
Minor Enabled smoother navigation between orders so that users will not be prompted to submit data when accessing the previous page
Minor Made changes to some MasterPass fields in some of the Acquirer connections to comply with changes from MasterCard
Tech Made some ApiChanges; going forward all response XML will contain the 3-letter ISO-4217 version of the currency together with the 3 digit version
Tech Updated the documentation for MultiPayment (multi-merchant-basket support) to better reflect its capabilities

20141007

Most of the effort in this sprint was expended on merchant specific integration as well as training of new staff.

Change Description
Minor Improved the performance of data generation and provision of data for our merchants
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20140923

We have only one new feature is this sprint because we focused on performance optimization in our system and improvement of internal tools. Also, our output was limited by staff training and vacation.

Change Description
Feature Enabled multi-payment functionality on C# API for our merchants

20140909

We had a number of merchant specific developments in this sprint which are not part of the gateway.

Change Description
   
  • [Feature] Replaced the surcharging rule engine to be more precise, such that merchants with complex pricing can better live up to new EU regulations around surcharges.

20140826

During this sprint we also did a lot of internal work to better cope with future growth.

Change Description
   
  • [Feature] Added Refunds and Release on Paii. If you are interested in Paii (Danish mobile payment solution) then please contact our Customer Care Team.
  • [Feature] Added Reconciliation data for Shift4 (formerly Finaro).
  • [Minor] Moved the verifyOrder step on Invoice payment to one step later, enabling merchants to decline orders if the new address is not compatible with the shipping method.
  • [Minor] Changed the presentation of e-payments and wallets in the payment form to be a clickable list instead of a radio-button list
  • [Tech] Allow downloading of custom reports via the API.
  • [Tech] Changes from Visa&MasterCard to be implemented by processors and PSPs.