RB 614 - Illegal characters, spaces, leading spaces, or invalid state in merchant city or state

Merchant City is a 13-character, alphanumeric field assigned by the member to identify the merchant city location. The system validates the data type of city field.

Merchant State is a two-character, alphanumeric field assigned by the member to identify the merchant state location.

Possible Cause

Solution

The merchant city/state in the download file is incorrect.

Correct the merchant city/state and retain the batch.
Perform a partial download and re-transmit the batch.

The terminal data for this field is corrupt.

Verify the merchant city/state in the terminal.

If valid, retain the batch and re-transmit.
If invalid, correct the merchant city/state in the terminal and re-transmit.

The system validates that the merchant state corresponds with the entities on the Merchant States table as noted below:

Merchant States