Introduction

UPC (Universal Payment Connector) DIRECT for Authorize.Net CIM gives you the freedom to easily store sensitive customer data, and process payments for returning customers. Our CIM product can also help you comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, since customer data is no longer stored locally.

The UPC DIRECT product is perfect for:

	merchants in need of a solution to store sensitive customer information while complying to PCI regulations
	merchants that want to give their customers flexible payment options
	merchants in need of quick and easy solution for storing customer data through the CIM API
	developers in need of a flexible API solution for integration with Authorize.Net CIM
	web designers or developers in need of a commercial grade solution already tried and proven

Our CIM solution is essentially a collection stand-alone web forms that can be easily modified with any text or web editor of your choice. The Customer Information Manager solution provided by Authorize.Net supports up to 15 separate API calls. Our software gives you the ability to take full advantage of each API call through our custom templating system. Each API call has a template that can be easily customized to the look and feel of your web site.

Our CIM solution supports the following CIM API requests:

	Create Requests
	createCustomerProfileRequest
	Creates a new customer profile along with any customer payment profiles and customer shipping addresses for the customer profile.
	createCustomerPaymentProfileRequest
	Creates a new customer payment profile for an existing customer profile. You can create up to 10 payment profiles for each customer profile.
	createCustomerShippingAddressRequest
	Creates a new customer shipping address for an existing customer profile. You can create up to 100 customer shipping addresses for each customer profile.
	createCustomerProfileTransactionRequest
	Creates a new payment transaction from an existing customer profile.
	Update Requests
	updateCustomerProfileRequest
	Updates an existing customer profile.
	updateCustomerPaymentProfileRequest
	Updates a customer payment profile for an existing customer profile.
	updateCustomerShippingAddressRequest
	Updates a shipping address for an existing customer profile.
	Get Requests
	getCustomerProfileIdsRequest
	Retrieves all customer profile IDs you have previously created.
	getCustomerProfileRequest
	Retrieves an existing customer profile along with all the associated customer payment profiles and customer shipping addresses.
	getCustomerPaymentProfileRequest
	Retrieves a customer payment profile for an existing customer profile.
	getCustomerShippingAddressRequest
	Retrieves a customer shipping address for an existing customer profile.
	Delete Requests
	deleteCustomerProfileRequest
	Deletes an existing customer profile along with all associated customer payment profiles and customer shipping addresses.
	deleteCustomerPaymentProfileRequest
	Deletes a customer payment profile from an existing customer profile.
	deleteCustomerShippingAddressRequest
	Deletes a customer shipping address from an existing customer profile.
	Validation Requests
	validateCustomerPaymentProfileRequest
	Verifies an existing customer payment profile by generating a test transaction.

The UPC DIRECT product follows strict PCI DSS (Data Security Standard) Compliancy Guidelines and Payment Application Best Practices. The product requires your Authorize.Net api login id and transaction key only. If your api login id and transaction key are ever compromised the assailant will not have access to log into your Authorize.Net account. Our software attempts to limit these types of threats by storing your api login id and transaction key inside a configuration file that can be optionally moved outside your web root directory.

NOTE:
You must be subscribed to the CIM (Customer Information Manager) Service through Authorize.Net to use the CIM API.