This Web service operation does the validation check on a credit card. It checks the card length based on the card type, performs a mod 10 checksum, and checks the expiration date. The return value could be: 0 – good, 1001 – no card number, 1002 – no expiration date, 1003 – invalid card type, 1004 – invalid card length, 1005 – invalid mod 10 check, 1006 – invalid expiration date. The URL to access this operation is:

https://secure.ftipgw.com/ArgoFire/validate.asmx?op=ValidCard

Descriptions of the parameters are listed below.

Parameter Description
CardNumber Required. The number of a credit card
ExpDate Required. The expiration date of a credit card

Example
The example data below will result in return 0.

Parameter Value
CardNumber 5454545454545454
ExpDate 0509


Response
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<int xmlns="https://secure.ftipgw.com/ArgoFire/">0</int> 

Example
The example data below will return 1005.

Parameter Value
CardNumber 5454545454545453
ExpDate 0509


Response
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<int xmlns="https://secure.ftipgw.com/ArgoFire/">1005</int>