Retail Consumption Overview

This document outlines the technical specification of communication between Green DotNetworkand Partners. The content in this document is intended to guide and assistpartners in integrating withGreen Dot Network.

The API contains the following operations:

Operation	Description	Timeout Threshold
Ping	Echo Test (Network Management)	60 Seconds
Auth	(Step 1 of 2-Phase) Validates the transaction and places a hold	4 Seconds
AuthCommit	(Step 2 of 2-Phase) Commits the authorized transaction in Step 1.	30 Seconds
AuthVoid	(Alternate Step 2 of 2-Phase) Voids the authorized transaction	30 Seconds

Service

This is a SOAP-based web service, Content-Type is “text/xml” and charset is “utf-8”.

For development environment setting details, please see Appendix C.

Glossary

Green Dot Initiated:
Green Dot initiates the request.

Partner hosted:
Partner is hosting the API.

PUSH:
Green Dot is sending the request to Partner.

Note: The above terms are used interchangeably in this document.