Freeside:3:Documentation:Developer/FS/API

NAME

FS::API - API for advanced back-office integration

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use Frontier::Client;
use Data::Dumper;

my $uri = new URI 'http://localhost:8008/';

my $server = new Frontier::Client ( 'url' => $uri );

my $result = $server->call(
  'FS.API.customer_info',
    'secret'  => 'sharingiscaring',
    'custnum' => 181318,
);

#die $result->{'error'} if $result->{'error'};

print Dumper($result);

1;

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a backend API for advanced back-office integration.

In contrast to the self-service API, which authenticates an end-user and offers functionality to that end user, the backend API performs a simple shared-secret authentication and offers full, administrator functionality, enabling integration with other back-office systems.

If accessing this API remotely with XML-RPC or JSON-RPC, be careful to block the port by default, only allow access from back-office servers with the same security precations as the Freeside server, and encrypt the communication channel (for exampple, with an SSH tunnel or VPN) rather than accessing it in plaintext.

METHODS

customer_info HASHREF
Returns general customer information. Takes a hash reference as parameter with the following keys, custnum and API secret

new_customer HASHREF

Creates a new customer. Takes a hash reference as parameter with the following keys:

secret

API Secret

first

first name (required)

last

last name (required)

ss

(not typically collected; mostly used for ACH transactions)

company

Company name

address1 (required)

Address line one

city (required)

City

county

County

state (required)

State

zip (required)

Zip or postal code

country

2 Digit Country Code

latitude

longitude

geocode

censustract

censusyear

daytime

Daytime phone number

night

Evening phone number

fax

Fax number

mobile

Mobile number

invoicing_list

comma-separated list of email addresses for email invoices. The special value 'POST' is used to designate postal invoicing (it may be specified alone or in addition to email addresses),

postal_invoicing

Set to 1 to enable postal invoicing

payby

CARD, DCRD, CHEK, DCHK, LECB, BILL, COMP or PREPAY (see "signup_info" (required)

payinfo

Card number for CARD/DCRD, account_number@aba_number for CHEK/DCHK, prepaid "pin" for PREPAY, purchase order number for BILL

paycvv

Credit card CVV2 number (1.5+ or 1.4.2 with CVV schema patch)

paydate

Expiration date for CARD/DCRD

payname

Exact name on credit card for CARD/DCRD, bank name for CHEK/DCHK

referral_custnum

referring customer number

agentnum

Agent number

agent_custid

Agent specific customer number

referral_custnum

Referring customer number

insert_payment
insert_credit
insert_refund