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# PaymentCardReadResult

The result of a payment card read operation.

```
struct PaymentCardReadResult
```

## Overview

The system returns a `PaymentCardReadResult` in response to your requests to
read a person’s payment card. Use this information to facilitate payments with
your payment service provider.

For information about how to read a payment card, see
[`PaymentCardReaderSession`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReaderSession).

## Topics

### Getting the result data

[`generalCardData`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/generalCardData)

A Base64-encoded string that contains general cardholder and terminal data in
tag-length-value (TLV) format.

[`paymentCardData`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/paymentCardData)

A Base64-encoded string that contains the encrypted payment information
to send to your payment provider.

### Checking the read outcome

[`outcome`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/outcome)

The outcome of the transaction.

[`PaymentCardReadResult.ReadOutcome`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/ReadOutcome)

Values that describe the outcome of a read request.

### Getting the result ID

[`id`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/id)

The unique identifier for the transaction.

### Getting the PIN status

[`isPINFallback`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/isPINFallback)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the PIN Fallback occurred.

[`pinBypassed`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/pinBypassed)

A Boolean value that indicates whether the consumer bypassed the PIN entry.

### Getting the kernel type

[`applicationTypeIdentifier`](/documentation/ProximityReader/PaymentCardReadResult/applicationTypeIdentifier)

A string identifier that represents the payment application type (kernel) used to read the card.


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