Industry-Specific Fields for Amex Direct

American Express supports optional, industry-specific fields on transactions. If you use an American Express Direct processor connection in your gateway, you can send this optional data for both the Lodging and Travel/Cruise industries, as defined by American Express. Information for only one industry type may be sent per transaction.

Travel/cruise industry parameters

The following parameters may be sent with the travel/cruise industry type: Travel package
(required) Specifies whether the travel package includes a flight reservation, car rental, both flight and car, or neither. Must be one of the following four values: flight , car , flight_and_car , otherDeparture date
(optional) Date of departure, in the format 2000-12-15Lodging check-in date
(optional) Date of lodging check in in the format 2000-12-15Lodging check-out date
(optional) Date of lodging check out, in the format 2000-12-15Lodging name
(optional) Name of the lodging, with a maximum of 20 characters

Example

Java

TransactionRequest request = new TransactionRequest()
    .amount(new BigDecimal("100.00"))
    .creditCard()
    .number("4111111111111111")
    .expirationDate("05/2022")
    .done()
    .industry()
    .industryType(Transaction.IndustryType.TRAVEL_CRUISE)
    .data()
    .travelPackage("flight")
    .departureDate("2000-07-22")
    .lodgingCheckInDate("2000-07-22")
    .lodgingCheckOutDate("2000-07-25")
    .lodgingName("Royal Caribbean")
    .done()
    .done();
Result<transaction> result = gateway.transaction().sale(request);

Lodging industry parameters

The following parameters may be sent with the lodging industry type: Folio number
(required) Folio number assigned to the itemized statement assigned to this stay. Alphanumeric with a maximum of 12 charactersCheck in date
(required) Date of lodging check in, in the format 2000-12-15Check out date
(required) Date of lodging check out, in the format 2000-12-15Room rate
(optional) The daily room rate, in the same format as the transaction amount. This field is optional

Example

Java

TransactionRequest request = new TransactionRequest()
    .amount(new BigDecimal("100.00"))
    .creditCard()
    .number("4111111111111111")
    .expirationDate("05/2022")
    .done()
    .industry()
    .industryType(Transaction.IndustryType.LODGING)
    .data()
    .folioNumber("ABC123")
    .checkInDate("2000-12-22")
    .checkOutDate("2000-12-25")
    .roomRate("10.00")
    .done()
    .done();
Result<transaction> result = gateway.transaction().sale(request);