HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

This documentation provides a detailed description of how to integrate with the Equiant Financial Services Systems.

This document is intended for:

• IT decision makers who want to know more about the features and capabilities of Equiant Systems (what services are offered, what needs it addresses, how it is structured, etc.) It will also help to clarify what they will need to do to use in their own custom POS applications. This specification has useful background knowledge for those who are new to the loan and billing processing industry.

• Developers and experienced technical people who wish to integrate into their software applications to handle a variety of functional calls. Information is included to help developers design, implement, test, and support their applications.

This document contains a variety of information such as response code descriptions, suggested terminal settings, sample code, etc.

We highly recommend you periodically check for the latest version of this document.

APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE (API) OVERVIEW

Interfaces Supported

The Equiant Gateway offers a web services processing interface. This interface supports version 1.1 or 1.2 of the W3C SOAP.

Web services are open standard allowing developers to use the programming language they are most fluent in. For best results, developers should be familiar with SOAP, Web Service Definition Language [WSDL], and other web services standards.