Overview

The Heartland Portico™ Gateway (referred to as Portico in this document) provides an application programming interface (API) to aid integrators and merchants with processing payment transactions. Portico's API includes services for a variety of payment methods (credit, debit, check, EBT, gift, etc.) and various industries (retail, restaurant, mail order/telephone order, lodging, eCommerce, and healthcare). Portico also provides integrators and merchants with several options for secure transaction processing.

This document details the services available via the API and provides guidelines on best practices for integrators. Following these guidelines can reduce integration and certification time, reduce fraud potential, and ensure proper interchange rates.

This document is based on Portico API version 3.31. The content is split into two distinct sites:

Portico Developer Guide site (this site): This site contains the front matter of the documentation and all static content. It is the default site when initially linking to the Portico Developer Guide. The title "Portico Developer Guide" appears above the topic title on each of its pages. Searches performed in this site will provide results for only this site. A PDF of this content is available here:
Portico Developer Guide only pdf
Portico Schema site: This site contains the content generated from the XML Schema. When you click a link to the Generated Content site, the page is opened in a new browser tab. For example, if you click a Request/Response link from the Transactions > Credit Card Transactions page, the page is opened in a new tab. The title "PosGateway Schema" appears above the topic title on each of its pages. Searches performed in this site will provide results for only this site. The nature of this content does not lend itself to be displayed in a PDF, so no PDF is provided. To get back to the Overview/Front Matter, click on the other browser tab.

See Release Notes for descriptions of the changes made to the documentation for this release.