Staff Initiated Payments

Collect cards, cash, or checks in office (POS), by mail, online or over the phone.

  • Collect All Tender Types 
    Collect checks, cash and all card types including EMV, NFV, swipe and manual
  • Collect Anywhere (Omnichannel) 
    Collect payments in office at the POS or back office, including by phone with telephone-based keyed check support or by staff initiated mobile payments
  • Integrate Any Platform 
    Flexible integrations for native desktop and mobile/tablet apps, desktop web-based apps and consumer-facing kiosks
  • Manage Devices 
    We support a range of devices and allow configurations to be managed across accounts, workstations, users and device level profiles
  • Integrate Devices 
    Many support options including modern browsers, keyboard emulation, thin client environment support (via Citrix, Remote Desktop, VMWare, etc.), COM port and content redirection
  • Scan Checks 
    One-time or batch methods supported
  • Use Saved Cards (Tokenized) 
    If available, you can use a consumer’s saved payment method
  • Reduce Risk 
    Reduce security and compliance risks as well as PCI and PA-DSS efforts by limiting card data exposure when you use InstaMed supported P2PE encrypted devices

Integration Options

Sample testing information is available on our Payment Interface Testing page.

Single Sign-On

Standard Collect Payment 

SAML or NVP authentication is used to launch staff-facing one-time payments page and offers more robust data collection and feature set, including InstaMed receipt generation.

Review the wizard below for interface display options, code examples and implementation details.

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Simple Collect Payment 

SAML or NVP authentication is used to launch staff-facing one-time payments page. Offers a streamlined UI that reduces the number of entry fields but limits the InstaMed UI footprint. Automatically engages the device, auto closes upon submission and suppresses receipts. .NET API can be used to launch this screen.

Review the wizard below for interface display options, code examples and implementation details.

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REST

Recommended for new integrations where the user experience is heavily controlled by the software application. Consider pairing with the InstaMed Secure Token to manage PCI scope in an ECOM environment.

Explore our REST documentation.  If you need a Sandbox API Key, apply for one here.

NVP

HTTP POST Name Value Pair (NVP) is a simple to use format that works across all platforms.

Sample Request

POST /payment/NVP.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: connect.instamed.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 268

merchantID=1000&storeID=10&terminalID=1&userID=dynaprouser&transactionAction=AuthCapt&transactionType=CreditCard&cardPresentStatus=PresentEMV&deviceSerialNumber=98DC2522081D0A0E&deviceFirmwareVersion=30050851-D1-PCI&deviceName=DynaPro SC&encryptedEMVData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messageID=0&requestToken=true&allowPartialPayment=false&supportsMultiSignatureImageFormats=true&saveCardOnFile=false&isEMVCapableDevice=True&isEMVFallback=False

Sample Response

transactionID=3A1AB7A248524C6287FA79C6A26F7CA5&saveOnFileTransactionID=3A1AB7A248524C6287FA79C6A26F7CA5&emvResponse=002DF9820029DFDF540A9500020000DD2E2000EBDFDF550182DFDF250898DC2522081D0A0EFA82000670048A02303000F3BF7984

SOAP

SOAP Web Services utilizing SOAP version 1.1 or SOAP version 1.2 to transport data. Connectivity requires 2048 bit TLS security.

DoCreditCardAuthAndCapt

https://connect.instamed.com/payment/service.asmx?op=DoCreditCardAuthAndCapt

DoECheckAuthAndCapt

https://connect.instamed.com/payment/service.asmx?op=DoECheckAuthAndCapt

.NET API

For Windows-based applications to outsource device support including EMV/NFC. Works in local and thin client environments.

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InstaMed Online

Software vendors who do not yet have a consumer-facing application to embed into can leverage this standalone portal.

Device Support

Device support is managed by InstaMed if .NET API or SSO is used. Clients can use the InstaMed Device Service for modern browser support and certain device models. For a list of P2PE devices supported and available through InstaMed, please see here.

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