RESTful Endpoint API Specification and Error Codes

Customers have the ability to interact with Kount using Restful Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Restful API access will allow a customer to programmatically interact with Kount “under the hood” so to speak, bypassing the Agent Web Console (AWC) completely. These systems can be connected to an in-house interface so decisions can be made automatically.

If you request these services, Kount allows you to communicate with our application servers over the internet through a series of notifications and Restful API calls. APIs allow you to send information to Kount, such as adding a large number of email addresses to a VIP list and receiving a response stating if your changes were successful.

Kount Environments and Authentication

Kount has separate environments for testing and production. We encourage the use of the Kount Test environment to establish and validate the Restful API Connection.

• Test
• Production

Creating an API Key

API keys are required to authenticate to Kount when using RIS, making an API call, or for various system integrations. Each customer is assigned a 32-character hash key that acts as a password for their API calls. API keys are unique per customer and environment.

Steps for creating an API key

1. Log into the Agent Web Console.
2. Click Admin, and then select API Keys.
3. Click Create API Key.
4. Enter a Key Name, select your desired Key Permissions (typically RIS and API), and then click Create API Key. If the key is successfully created, a confirmation appears.
5. The new key displays on the API Key Management screen.
6. Copy and paste the API key into other applications, as necessary.

Restful API Documentation

To obtain documentation regarding Kount's Restful API, click here. All of the following items are located within each Endpoint categorically.

• List of Endpoints
• Usage
• Error Codes
• Response Samples
• Code Examples 
• Error Codes

In addition to the general three-digit error codes common with the Kount API endpoints, Kount offers four-digit error codes to provide additional information should a submission from a customer encounter a problem. See below for a list of these codes.

General API

• code: 2200 msg: Invalid merchant id
• code: 2201 msg: Invalid status type
• code: 2202 msg: Invalid address type
• code: 2203 msg: Invalid tran/ordr ID
• code: 2204 msg: Invalid agent email
• code: 2205 msg: Order number returned multiple transactions
• code: 2210 msg: Invalid user id

Transaction Report

• code: 2220 msg: Invalid transaction report time offset
• code: 2221 msg: Invalid transaction report time window
• Category report
• code: 2206 msg: Invalid category report type
• code: 2207 msg: Invalid sorting order
• code: 2208 msg: Invalid sorting column

RFCB (Refund/Chargeback)

• code: 1725 msg: Invalid transaction id
• code: 1731 msg: Transaction not found
• code: 1743 msg: Invalid Refund/Chargeback status value, expects 'R' or 'C'
• code: 1747 msg: Invalid reason
• code: 1758 msg: Incomplete transaction - waiting for update, try again later
• code: 1759 msg: Chargeback code too long, 50 characters maximum

General VIP

• code: 1502 msg: Invalid review type
• code: 1546 msg: Billing or Shipping indicator malformed
• code: 1547 msg: Billing or Shipping indicator missing
• code: 1560 msg: Invalid value - too long
• code: 1561 msg: Required value was blank
• code: 1562 msg: Unknown VIP type

VIP Card

• code: 1508 msg: Invalid card number
• code: 1520 msg: Card not found

VIP Email

• code: 1501 msg: Invalid email format

VIP Device

• code: 1504 msg: Invalid device id format
• code: 1505 msg: Device id not found

VIP Address

• code: 1509 msg: Address1 required
• code: 1510 msg: Address1 too long, 256 characters maximum
• code: 1511 msg: Address2 too long, 256 characters maximum
• code: 1513 msg: City too long, 256 characters maximum
• code: 1515 msg: State too long, 256 characters maximum
• code: 1517 msg: Postal Code too long, 16 character maximum
• code: 1545 msg: Country Code too long
• code: 1550 msg: Address not found
• code: 1551 msg: Malformed Address, expecting 7 delimited fields
• code: 1552 msg: Email address not found when api passes in an address, the bill/ship code is not included.
• code: 1553 msg: Malformed Address, expecting 6 delimited fields

VIP UDF (User Defined Fields)

• code: 1571 msg: VIP UDF combination not found
• code: 1572 msg: UDF label of type ALPHA-NUMERIC not found
• code: 1573 msg: VIP UDF value must be 1-150 alpha-numeric characters
• code: 1574 msg: Invalid VIP UDF input array

UDF (User Defined Fields)

• code: 1540 msg: Label must be 1-28 alpha-numeric characters and begin with a letter
• code: 1541 msg: Type must be NUMBER|ALPHA-NUMERIC|DATE|AMOUNT
• code: 1543 msg: UDF already exists, cannot create
• code: 1544 msg: Description must be 1-64 alpha-numeric characters
• code: 1548 msg: ID must be 1-64 numeric characters
• code: 1549 msg: Max number of supported UDFs reached

Order status

code: 1702 msg: Invalid note or note too long

Miscellaneous

• code: 9998 msg: Transaction has been modified by someone else
• code: 9999 msg: Unknown error