TCLink(3pm)

💳 TCLink — the manual page, but make it a group chat

okay bestie, so you know that Perl module TCLink from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section? The one that's technically named TCLink(3pm)? Yeah. That one. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing payments.

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✨ NAME ✨

Business::OnlinePayment::TCLink — it's the TrustCommerce backend for Business::OnlinePayment. That's the whole vibe. That's the name. Slay. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the whole thing in action, no cap, copy it exactly:

use Business::OnlinePayment;

my $tx = new Business::OnlinePayment("TCLink");
$tx->content(
    type           => 'VISA',
    login          => '99999',
    password       => '',
    action         => 'Normal Authorization',
    amount         => '49.95',
    first_name     => 'Dan',
    last_name      => 'Helfman',
    address        => '123 Anystreet',
    city           => 'Anywhere',
    state          => 'UT',
    zip            => '84058',
    card_number    => '4111111111111111',
    expiration     => '09/05',
);
$tx->submit();

if($tx->is_success()) {
    print "Card processed successfully: ".$tx->authorization."\n";
} else {
    print "Card was rejected: ".$tx->error_message."\n";
}

Build the object, stuff all the content in, submit() it, then check is_success(). If it hit, you get the authorization. If it flopped, you get the error_message. Main character energy either way. 👑

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🦋 SUPPORTED TRANSACTION TYPES 🦋

💖 Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Novus, Diner's Club, Carte Blanche, Japan Card, Enroute, CC

Content required: type, login, password, action, amount, first_name, last_name, card_number, expiration.

that's a whole roster of cards, bestie. ten of them. and yes, every single one of those content fields is required, no skipping.

🌈 Check

Content required: type, login, password, action, amount, first_name, last_name, account_number, routing_code.

see how it swapped card_number and expiration for account_number and routing_code? it's giving bank account instead of plastic. iconic. 🧚

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

For detailed information see Business::OnlinePayment.

that's it. that's the description. the docs live next door, go knock. 🚪

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⭐ NOTE ⭐

okay this part actually matters so listen up, fr fr:

To settle an authorization-only transaction (where you set action to 'Authorization Only'), submit the transaction id code in the field "order_number" with the action set to "Post Authorization".

You can get the transaction id from the authorization by calling the order_number method on the object returned from the authorization.

You must also submit the amount field with a value less than or equal to the amount specified in the original authorization.

🚨 not me being dramatic but: if your amount is bigger than the original authorization, that is not it. keep it less than or equal, periodt.

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💜 COMPATIBILITY 💜

This module relies on Net::TCLink for interacting with the TrustCommerce payment engine. See http://www.trustcommerce.com/tclink.html for details.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dan Helfman <dan@trustcommerce.com>

Derived from code by Jason Kohles and Ivan Kohler.

shoutout to the whole lineage, we love a collab. 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• perl(1).
• Business::OnlinePayment.
• Net::TCLink.

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and that's the page, bestie. perl v5.26.2, dated 2018-08-19 — yeah she's a vintage queen but she still eats 💖✨🎀🦋🌸

laterrr 💅