The Virtual Terminal provides merchants with the ability to execute manual card transactions. This is especially useful in a Mail Order / Telephone Order (MOTO) environment. Virtual Terminal is accessible directly from the main menu.
Getting Started with VT
Based on your merchant account with Worldnet and your user permissions, you can have access to the following forms:
Additionally, after finalizing a transaction, the receipt page is presented and you can also void or refund the transaction at this stage by clicking on the “Refund” or “Void” button in the bottom right corner.
It is also possible to print the Merchant Copy or Cardholder Copy of the transaction's receipt, if needed and depending on the languages configured on the platform, you can also choose in what language the receipt should be.
If your Terminal is enabled for Secure Tokens and Subscriptions, you can also Save Card or Create Subscription from the transaction receipt. If you select one of these options the SelfCare System is going to create the Secure Token based on the details of the transaction and if you desire to create a subscription, besides creating the Secure Token, you are going to be redirected to the subscription creation page with a few fields already filled.
Another interesting feature you can have with Virtual Terminal is the possibility of adding enhanced data to a transaction during or after a Sale, Offline Sale or Pre-authorization, to try achieving lower charging fees from your Acquirer. The use of this feature depends on your Acquirer providing support for it, so consult our support team to see if you can use it.
The Virtual Terminal provides merchants with the ability to execute manual payment card transactions. This is especially useful in a Mail Order / Telephone Order (MOTO) environment.
Standard Sale
Virtual Terminal screen can have 3 types of fields: required, optional and customized.
Clicking the ‘Perform Sale’ button starts the processing of transaction when all required details are entered.
The Virtual Terminal also provides merchants with the ability to execute manual payment card transactions offline.
For that, the system requires a approval code, which the Merchant needs to request from its Acquirer. This is useful to not stop making sales, even when the Acquirer is having connectivity issues.
Go to Virtual Terminal tab in the SelfCare and choose “OFFLINE SALE”.
This will bring-up the form with fields identical to the Standard Sale but clicking on the “Perform Pre-Auth” will process the transaction as a pre-authorisation. A successful pre-authorised transaction will have to be completed later.
Pre - Authorization
The Pre-Auth search form will be displayed and you can search for a transaction by order ID or card details using this form:
Search can be run by Order ID or Card Details. Actual search field(s) will become active when highlighted; search field can be changed by mouse click or using the keyboard for navigation. You should provide the full order ID to be able to search by this field.
In case you do not remember your Order ID or Card Number, any pre-authorised transactions can be found in the Open Batch.
The search result will be displayed just beside or below the search form.
In order to proceed with the transaction completion process, you need to click “Complete” link beside a pre-authorised transaction.
The Pre-Auth Completion page contains the original pre-auth transaction details and has one editable field only (“Amount”), and 3 buttons:
After clicking the “Continue” button, a Pre-Auth Completion form will be displayed.
The “Continue” button disappears after it is clicked on, but 3 other buttons will be displayed instead: “Complete”, “Process As Sale” and “Edit Amount”.
If the amount entered in the previous step is correct, click the “Complete” button to follow to the next step, or click the “Edit Amount” button if you wish to modify it. If you wish to process this is a Sales Transaction click on “Process As Sale” button.
A confirmation dialog window will be displayed when the “Complete” button is clicked.
Depending on the final transaction amount, you can see one of two possible messages in the confirmation box:
Please note that two transactions with the same order ID are displayed in the Open batch list when outside of the 15% range transaction is completed. This list will contain a reversal of the original Pre-Auth transaction and a new Sale transaction with a status assigned by Worldnet depending on the processing result.
The “REFUND” option can be found under “VIRTUAL TERMINAL” tab in the SelfCare. This function allows you to process instant Refunds for all Virtual Terminal transactions. A search form will be displayed where you can search for a transaction using Order ID or Unique Ref number. After a transaction has been found, a result window will be displayed:
Refund
There are 2 modifiable fields:
Once both boxes are completed, you need to click on “Refund” button. This will display a confirmation window and after accepting it, the refund will be processed.
If your terminal is enabled to use Enhanced Data (Level 2 or Level 3), your virtual terminal Sale, Pre-Auth and Offline Sale initial screens will come with an additional action: ADD ENHANCED DATA.
Standard Sale
If you decide not to use this option, you might provide it later on, when the receipt is presented, or even using the Open Batch.
Standard Sale - Add Enhanced Data Before Authorization
If you decide not to use this option, you might provide it later on, when the receipt is presented, or even using the Open Batch.
Standard Sale - Receipt
If you decide not to use this option, you might provide it later on, when the receipt is presented, or even using the Open Batch.
Standard Sale - Receipt - Add Enhanced Data After Authorization
Even if you decide not to use the option above, you can always go the Open Batch and Add the enhanced data before the transaction is settled.
ENHANCED DATA CAN ONLY BE ADDED BEFORE SETTLEMENT
The enhanced data can only be added before the settlement of a transaction. So, if a transaction is moved to the closed batch, you loose your opportunity to try lower fees with your Acquirer. To avoid that, you should consider using a default template for enhanced data with the autofill feature.
For more information on the template feature, consult the Enhanced Data Templates section.
ENHANCED DATA AUTOFILL
If your terminal is configured to use the autofill feature with the enhanced data feature, the gateway is always going to try to apply the available default template to the transaction's enhanced data.
For more information on the template feature, consult the Enhanced Data Templates section.