Overview

Audience and Purpose

This guide is intended for integration software developers whose objective is to integrate CloudBlue Commerce with third-party systems to ensure customer fraud screening, validation and eligibility checks in compliance with the respective business processes and applicable anti-fraud legislation.

This guide describes how fraud screening plug-ins can be developed using the CloudBlue Commerce Fraud Screening Software Development Kit.

Important: Before creating a custom plugin, please learn about plugins available out of the box.

Installing Fraud Screening Software Development Kit

To install the Fraud Screening SDK:

  1. Install the SDK package:
    1. Go to your Operations management node via SSH.
    2. Run this command:

      oa-update --billing-container bm-fraud-sdk

      Note: During the package installation, the Billing service will be restarted.

  2. Install the fraud screening plug-ins GUI package:
    1. Log in to Operations provider control panel. Go to Infrastructure > Service Nodes. Click the Operations management node in the list.
    2. Switch to the Packages tab. Press Install Package on top.
    3. Find the fraud-plugins-ui package in the list. Press Install package in the same table row on the right.

Implementing Fraud Screening Solutions

To implement a fraud screening solution:

  1. Install/upgrade to the necessary CloudBlue Commerce version.
  2. Install the Fraud Screening SDK as explained above.
  3. Develop the necessary fraud screening plug-ins using the Fraud Screening SDK as described further in this guide.
  4. Deploy the developed plug-ins to your CloudBlue Commerce installation:
    1. Deploy the plug-ins to the /var/www/pa-fraud-sdk directory.
    2. Return to the CloudBlue Commerce provider control panel. Go to Billing > System > Settings. Click Fraud Screening in the Operations section. Make sure the plug-ins are displayed in the list.
  5. Configure the plug-ins in CloudBlue Commerce provider control panel. For more information, please refer to CloudBlue Commerce Billing Provider's Guide.