This message allows the merchant to determine the card type of the card in question.

Below are the details for the request message to initiate a get card type transaction.

Tag/Attribute Name			Data Type	Max Length	Mandatory	Comments
Message					Yes
	MerchantAuthentication				Yes
		MerchantID	A	15	Yes	The gateway account merchant ID issued (not to be confused with the MMS username)
		Password	A	15	Yes	The gateway account password
	CardNumber		N	20	Yes	The customer’s card number

Below are the details for the response that will be received after sending a GetCardType request.

Tag/Attribute Name					Data Type	Max Length	Always Present	Comments
GetCardTypeResponse							Yes
	GetCardTypeResult						Yes
		StatusCode			N	1	Yes	This indicates the status of the transaction
		Message			A	–	No	This gives a more detailed description of the status of the transaction
		ErrorMessages					No
			MessageDetail				Yes
				Detail (multiple)	A	256	Yes	If there were multiple error messages (e.g. multiple input variable validation errors, then they will be detailed here)
	GetCardTypeOutputData						No
		CardTypeData
			CardType		A	–	Yes	Gives the card type (see appendix 5)
			Issuer		A	100	No	The card issuer (if known)
			LuhnCheckRequired		B	–	Yes	Gives a true or false stating whether the Luhn (mod10) check needs to be run against the card number to validate it
			IssueNumberStatus		A	20	Yes	Give the status of the issue number. Will be one of the following: MUST_BE_SUBMITTED, DO_NOT_SUBMIT, SUBMIT_ONLY_IF_ON_CARD, IGNORED_IF_SUBMITTED
		GatewayEntryPoints					Yes
			GatewayEntryPoint (multiple)				Yes
				EntryPointURL (attribute)	A	256	Yes	The URL of the active gateway entry point
				Metric (attribute)	N	5	Yes	A metric value giving an indication of whether transactions should be sent to this gateway entry point