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Introduction

Hellgate® supports your payment processes with stand-alone authentications. This means you run a full 3-D Secure authentication based on cardholder data stored in Hellgate® and then transact with your existing payment processor based on this data without further friction.

Scenarios​

We support four different scenarios for authentication only payments:

  1. Credential-on-File (COF): Simple authentication for a single payment based on an existing Hellgate Token.
  2. Initial Recurring: Authentication for the first payment in a row of recurring payments.
  3. Initial Installment: Authentication for the first payment in a row of installment payments.
  4. Subsequent Recurring/Installment: Authentication for a subsequent merchant initiated transaction.

The first three are customer initated and as such require a customer interaction. They are based on Hellgate's session protocol and are facilitated by our SDKs. The fourth scenario is merchant initiated and can be triggered by your backend, without a customer. This scenario is also referred to as requestor initiated (3RI).

Need support?​

If you need support getting started with authentication only payments, please reach out to your account manager or contact our support.