Why does my recurring transaction give the error "invalid card number"?

If you are trying to do a recurring payment using tokenized payment details and get an error with errorCode 101 and message invalid card number, you are probably not passing in the payment details correctly. To do a recurring payment using a token, you need to pass both the shopperReference and the token in the request. Depending on which integration you are the names differ. Please check both scenarios below:

Checkout

If you are using Checkout API endpoint (/payments) and seeingerrorCode 101 and message invalid card number you are probably not including the storedPaymentMethodID:

Include the storedPaymentMethodId: This is the recurringDetailReference returned in the response when you created the token. Before API v49 this is passed in as recurringDetailReference

Refer to this example for CardOnFile:

{

"amount":{

"value":2000,

"currency":"USD"

},

"paymentMethod":{

"type":"scheme",

"storedPaymentMethodId":"7219687191761347",

"encryptedSecurityCode": "adyenjs_0_1_18$MT6ppy0FAMVMLH..."

},

"reference":"YOUR_ORDER_NUMBER",

"shopperInteraction": "ContAuth",

"recurringProcessingModel": "CardOnFile",

"merchantAccount":"YOUR_MERCHANT_ACCOUNT",

"shopperReference":"YOUR_UNIQUE_SHOPPER_ID_IOfW3k9G2PvXFu2j",

"returnUrl":"https://your-company.com/..."

}

For all details refer to our tokenization documentation: CardOnFile, Recurring and UnscheduledCardOnFile

Classic API

If you are using our Classic API endpoint (/authorise) and seeing errorCode 101 and message invalid card number you are probably not including the selectedRecurringDetailReference:

Include the selectedRecurringDetailReference: Either the recurringDetailReference returned from the list of all stored details based on the shopperReference, or LATEST to use the most recent recurring detail

Refer to this example for ONECLICK:

{

"amount":{

"value":2000,

"currency":"EUR"

},

"card":{

"cvc":"737"

},

"reference":"Your Reference Here",

"merchantAccount":"TestMerchant",

"shopperEmail":"s.hopper@test.com",