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Payment instructions
A payment instruction is the instance of a payment method with the details necessary to perform payment actions. For example, if a payment method name is Visa, then the payment instruction consists of Visa, the payment amount, cardholder's name, billing address, account number, and expiration date.
A shopper adds a payment instruction during the checkout flow. When the payment instruction is added, the PIAdd command runs and persists payment information to the payment tables. A payment instruction is created in the EDPPAYINST and PPCPAYINST tables. The protocol data is stored in the PPCEXTDATA table.
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RefundMethodConfigurations XML file
Payment, refund and return payment business policies
PaymentMethodConfigurations XML file