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Sofort

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Introduction

Sofort, also known as Pay Now, allows you to make a fast and easy payment of your online purchases using your online banking details. The merchant receives a real-time confirmation of the transfer order and can dispatch the goods promptly or allow the download.

Guidelines

  1. Create a payment with the payment method set to sofort and use a webhook or notification. See Collecting why.
  2. Redirect your customer to the payment url, field payUrl in the payment response.
  3. Once the customer completes the payment, they are redirected to the return url defined in the payment request field returnUrl.
  4. Important The payment status will not change until CCV receives the money. See Collecting for more information.
  5. When CCV receives the money, the payment becomes successful. If you used a webhook or notification, CCV will inform you about the change.

Collecting

Sofort is a collecting payment method, i.e. CCV receives the money from Sofort and will payout the merchant on regular intervals.

Sofort payments are not successful yet even if the customer authorises the payment. Sofort does not guarantee a successful outcome once the customer returns. As a result, CCV handles the payment the same way and will only mark the payment as successful if CCV receives the money from the customers account.

Method API details

Payment

Sofort does not require method specific input.

{
    "amount": 9.99,
    "currency": "eur",
    "method": "sofort",
    "returnUrl": "https://shop/return?order=123456",
    "webhookUrl": "https://shop/payhook?order=123456",
    "merchantOrderReference": "123456",
    "description": "Order 123456",
    "language": "eng"
}

Refund

Sofort does not require method specific input.

{
  "reference": "S240226130441921CB87E195.Y",
  "description": "Refund of Order 123456"
}