Field notes: A
Acct Id
See Card Type.
ACI
For Mastercard, this is used by clients and TSYS in Clearing and Settlement to identify Travel Industries Premier Service (TIPS) and Service Industries Recurring Payment transactions.
For Visa, this is used in conjunction with the RPS indicator to identify the characteristics of the CPS transaction authorization. Possible values for Visa:
- A: Card present.
- C: Card present with merchant name and location data (cardholder-activated, self-service terminal).
- E: Card present with merchant name and location data.
- F: Card not present—Account Funding.
- K: Card present with key–entry.
- M: Card not present—Direct Marketing (no Address Verification Service—Germany).
- N: Not a payment service transaction.
- P: Card not present (Preferred Customer participation requested).
- R: Card not present (Address Verification Service not required).
- S: Electronic Commerce 3D Secure Attempts.
- T: A CPS Program was not available when authorized.
- U: Card not present—3D Secure Electronic Commerce.
- V: Card not present (Address Verification Service requested).
- W: Card not present—Non-3D Secure Electronic Commerce.
- X: Disqualified custom payment service transaction (inserted by BASE II).
Account Status
A one-character code that identifies whether the account range associated with the token is defined as regulated (R) or non-regulated (N), per Regulation II.
ACH Tran Code
A 2-character code; the first character indicates whether the transaction was credit (C) or debit (D), and the second character indicates the hierarchy level/roll-up:
- CA: Credit - Association
- CB: Credit - Batch level roll-up
- CG: Credit - Group
- CM: Credit - Merchant
- CN: Credit - No roll-up
- DA: Debit - Association
- DG: Debit - Group
- DM: Debit - Merchant
- DN: Debit - No roll-up
Acquirer Bin
- For Visa, the acquirer's BASE identification number (BIN), used by Visa to identify processing centers and members.
- For MasterCard, the bank identification number (BIN).
Acquirer's Reference Number
A 23-digit identification number associated with every draft and voucher
- For Visa, it consists of a format code, BASE identification number (BIN), capture date, film locator, and check digit.
- For MasterCard, it is known as Acquirer Reference Data and includes the following information:
- Position(s) - Name
- 1 - Mixed Use; any numeric value.
- 2-7 - Acquirer’s BIN - Must contain the six-digit acquirer’s BIN.
- 8-11 - Julian Processing Date YDDD - Contains the Julian processing date the acquirer assigned to the First Presentment/1240.
- 2-22 - Acquirer’s Sequence Number - Contains the sequence number that the acquirer assigned to the First Presentment/1240; numeric.
- 23 - Check Digit - Numeric; Luhn Formula Modulus-10 algorithm determines value on the previous 22 positions.
Add Pos Info
Additional POS Information is a private-use field to provide additional information about the point of sale or point of service.
- For MasterCard, the field is free-form information text.
- For Visa, the field is also known as Field 60, and is divided into the following subfields:
- F60.1 - Terminal type
- F60.2 - Terminal entry capability
- F60.3 - Chip condition code
- F60.4 - Reserved
- F60.5 - Merchant group indicator
- F60.6 - Transaction indicator
- F60.7 - Card authentication reliability indicator
- F60.8 - Mail/telephone or electronic commerce indicator
- F60.9 - Cardholder ID method indicator
- F60.10 - Partial authorization indicator
Amex OptBlue (IRS Backup Withholding report generator)
To limit the report to merchants set up (or not set up) for AMEX OptBlue,select Y (or N) from the drop-down list, or accept the default ALL for both types of merchants.
Appl Type
Indicates whether the data capture transmission in a connection is a single batch or multiple batches. Possible values:
- 1: Single batch transmission
- 3: Multiple batch transmission
Assoc. Out Cleared Date
The processing date in the maintenance account control record (MCR) that the transaction was sent to Visa or MasterCard.
Authorization Amount (Authorized Amount, Auth Amount)
Indicates the dollar amount authorized for the transaction.
Authorization Characteristics Indicator (ACI, Requested ACI)
For Mastercard, this is used by clients and TSYS in Clearing and Settlement to identify Travel Industries Premier Service (TIPS) and Service Industries Recurring Payment transactions.
For Visa, this is used in conjunction with the RPS indicator to identify the characteristics of the CPS transaction authorization. Possible values for Visa:
- A: Card present.
- C: Card present with merchant name and location data (cardholder-activated, self-service terminal).
- E: Card present with merchant name and location data.
- F: Card not present—Account Funding.
- K: Card present with key–entry.
- M: Card not present—Direct Marketing (no Address Verification Service—Germany).
- N: Not a payment service transaction.
- P: Card not present (Preferred Customer participation requested).
- R: Card not present (Address Verification Service not required).
- S: Electronic Commerce 3D Secure Attempts.
- T: A CPS Program was not available when authorized.
- U: Card not present—3D Secure Electronic Commerce.
- V: Card not present (Address Verification Service requested).
- W: Card not present—Non-3D Secure Electronic Commerce.
- X: Disqualified custom payment service transaction (inserted by BASE II).
Authorization Code (AU1, Auth Approve Code, Auth Approval Code)
Authorization code assigned by the vendor to the approved transaction.
Note: This field is used for all Visa transactions and MasterCard incoming transactions.
Authorization Currency Code
Identifies the ISO standard numeric currency code used for authorizing the transaction.
Note: The value 840 is for U.S. currency.
Authorization Number
The authorization number assigned to a Client’s transaction.
Authorization Response Code (Auth Response Code)
Indicates the authorization response from Visa to the merchant. Possible value:
- 00: Transaction was authorized
Note: The value 00 is valid only for CPS purchases. Credit vouchers and reversals must contain spaces in this field.
Authorization Source (Auth Source, Response Source)
Identifies what method was used to obtain the authorization. (Visa)
Possible values:
- <Space>: No information is available.
- 0: Advice of Exception File update.
- 1: Response provided by STIP: request timed out by Switch (Assured Transaction Response).
- 2: Response provided by STIP: transaction amount below PCAS issuer limit (with or without AVS), AVS only, or telecode verification only.
- 3: Response provided by STIP: issuer center in Suppress Inquiries (SI) mode.
- 4: Response provided by STIP: issuer not available for processing (for reasons other than SI mode).
- 5: Response provided by issuer center (authorization only, authorization and address verification, or address verification only).
- 6: Offine approval: POS-device generated.
- 7: Acquirer approval: BASE I unavailable.
- 8: Acquirer approval: referral.
- 9: No authorization source code; non-authorized transactions.
- D: Referral: authorization code manually entered.
- E: Offine approval: authorization code manually entered.
- F: CAFIS generated response; post-authorization (Japan only).
- G: Issuer approval; post-authorization (Japan only).
Note: Authorization Source Codes are required in TIIF2, CPS, EPS, and Supermarket transactions.
Avg Tkt
Dollar amount of the average sales transaction.
AVS Code (AVS, AVS Response Code, AVS Result Code)
A code assigned by the card brand to indicate the response to an Address Verification Service (AVS) request, as returned in the original authorization response message.
Note: Codes 1-8 are only for American Express transactions.
Code
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Description
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<Space>
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Not applicable.
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1
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Cardholder name matches.
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2
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Cardholder name, billing address, and postal code match.
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3
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Cardholder name and billing postal code match.
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4
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Cardholder name and billing address match.
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5
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Cardholder name incorrect, billing address and postal code match.
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6
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Cardholder name incorrect, billing postal code matches.
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7
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Cardholder name incorrect, billing address matches.
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8
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Cardholder name, billing address, and postal code are all incorrect.
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A
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Address match only; ZIP code does not match.
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B
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Street addresses match for international transaction. Postal code not verified due to incompatible formats. (Acquirer sent street address and postal code.)
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C
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Street address and postal code not verified for international transaction due to incompatible formats (Acquirer sent street address and postal code).
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D
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Street addresses and postal codes match for international transaction.
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E
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Error response for Merchant Category Code.
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F
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Address does compare and five-digit ZIP code does compare (UK only).
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G
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Address information is unavailable; international transaction; non-AVS participant.
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I
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Address information not verified for international transaction.
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M
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Street addresses and postal codes match for international transaction.
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N
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Address and ZIP code do not match.
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P
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Postal codes match for international transaction. Street address not verified due to incompatible formats (Acquirer sent street address and postal code).
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R
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Retry; system unavailable or timed out.
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S
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Service not supported.
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U
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Address information is unavailable; domestic transaction.
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W
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Nine-digit ZIP code matches, but address does not match.
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X
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Exact match, address, and nine-digit ZIP code match.
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Y
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Address and five-digit ZIP code match.
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Z
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Five-digit ZIP code matches, but address does not match.
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