EMV Fallback Report

This report lists EMV fallback occurrences, enabling you to monitor and manage EMV fallback related transactions.

It provides information in these columns:

• Date
• BIN

  A six-digit number that identifies a client bank. A BIN is assigned by TSYS Acquiring Solutions and is the highest level of the front-end hierarchy. The front-end hierarchy is used by TSYS Acquiring Solutions to route an authorization or batch to the correct acquirer. BINS contain agents, the second level of the front-end hierarchy.

• Merchant ID

  The 12-digit Visa or MasterCard merchant ID.

• Term

  The terminal number.

• Merchant Name
• Device Fallback Count

  On the EMV Fallback Report, this column lists the number of Device Fallback occurrences for each date/BIN/merchant listed.

  A Device Fallback, also known as a Technical Fallback, indicates an EMV enabled terminal was unable to read the data on the chip card. This could be because the chip on the card was damaged or was incorrectly personalized by the issuer.

• Card Fallback Count

  On the EMV Fallback Report, this column lists the number of Card Fallback occurrences for each date/BIN/merchant listed.

  A Card Fallback, also known as an Empty Candidate Fallback, indicates an EMV enabled terminal application was unable to find an Application ID (AID) that matched an AID supported by the chip card.

• Total Fallback Count