HTTP Status Codes?

For a list of server response result codes that might be returned from the TabaPay API, refer to HTTP Status Codes.

A 400 Series Error is usually something that you can fix by changing something in your request. A 500 Series Error is usually something that you need to contact help@TabaPay.com to look at. If we determine that a 500 Series Error can be fixed by you, we will try to change this error situation to a 400 Series Error in a future code release.

PCI does require TabaPay to be cryptic in the Error Messages that we return back; but for certain 400 Series Errors, we may return back something in the Error Message (EM) field of the JSON Response that indicates what might be wrong.

You should never get a HTTP Status Code of 400 on Production

If you are getting a HTTP Status Code of 400 on the Production Environment, that usually means you are not handling these errors correctly on your end. We strongly recommend completing the Production Certification Test in its entirety, specifically the portion where we recommend integrating your application with our API calls.

Use of HTTP Status Code 207?

You might get HTTP Status Code 207, when there is an Error while processing your Transaction due to some Upstream Process.
Everything on our end processed successfully:

Your request passed all our checks
Configuration is available to process your request
A record is created for your request (Transaction)

But an Error occurred in some Upstream Processing.

Customer Facing Error Messages?

TabaPay offers a Server-to-Server Web Services API and TabaPay is not customer facing, therefore:

TabaPay does not provide customer facing Error Messages that are ready to be sent to your customer.
TabaPay does not provide Error Details (due to PCI).
TabaPay does not recommend showing your Customers our Error Messages or Error Codes.

Your Application should catch as many errors as possible before sending the API request to TabaPay. You should not use TabaPay (API Request) to check the Customer's Data Errors.

Therefore, if your Application is catching the obvious errors and you are not exposing Error Details from your Application or from the TabaPay API, then there should not be a lot of unique Error Messages back to the Customer.

What does EM: amount mean?

If you receive an error message: amount with status code 400 {"SC":400,"EM":"amount"}this may be due to your client limits. The transaction you are trying to create may be higher than your current limits. You can request to increase limits by following steps at Adjusting Limits.