Manage Merchant DDAs

Portfolio Pricing Manager allows you to manage a merchant's Demand Deposit Accounts (DDAs). A DDA is a checking account used for transferring funds to and from the merchant for credit card processing deposits and fees.

To manage a merchant's DDAs:

1. Perform a Merchant Pricing search, and then select the required Merchant Number to open the Merchant Pricing Profile page for that merchant.

   To search for a Merchant Pricing Profile on the Merchant Pricing Search page:

   

   1. If you know the Merchant ID, enter it, and then select Go.

      The Merchant Pricing Profile page for that merchant opens.

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      From the Offline Report Format drop-down list, select None (this is the default), enter the Search Criteria, and then select Search.

      Criteria Notes

      • Where a list icon or lookup icon is provided, click it to open a box where you can search for and select the criterion you want to search or report on.
      • In the Group ID and Association ID fields, you can specify a range of values by using a dash (-) between the low and high end values, and search on multiple values by using a comma (,) between each value.
      • These special characters cannot be used: : ` ^ = " < > [ ] |
      • Do not enter spaces before or after text entires.

      • Merchant DBA
      • Bank ID
      • Group ID
      • Association ID
      • From Start Date
      • To Start Date
      • From Stop Date
      • To Stop Date
      • Fee Category

        These fee categories are available for selection:

        • Authorization Other

          Fees associated with the authorization of a transaction not captured under the Authorization Transaction category.

        • Authorization Transactions

          Fees associated with the authorization of a transaction.

        • Card Brand Fees

          Acquirer type fees established by the major card brands, such as MC, NABU, VS TIF, and DS Data Usage.

        • Data Capture Other

          Other capture related fees. For example, Level 3.

        • Data Capture Transactions

          Fees associated with closing out terminal, sending batches, or settling online transactions (not funded).

        • Debit Network

          Fees for the network association or issuing bank. The surcharge for calling into the network for processing, PIN based debit only (online debit).

        • Discount

          Base discount fee based on sales activity or card type.

        • EBT

          Fees associated with Electronic Benefits Transfer.

        • Exceptions

          Fees for exception-type of activity, such as chargebacks, adjustments, and retrievals.

        • Interchange

          Fees as defined by major card brands.

        • Individual Plan

          Fees based on card type and/or transaction type, such as sales, cash and credit (returns).

        • MISC Fixed Fees

          Miscellaneous fixed fees, typically for non-transactional time-frame related services, such as training, residency, profile builds, and terminal downloads.

        • MISC Per Item Fees

          Miscellaneous per item fees, typically for front-end products and services, such as call center help, training, residency, profile builds, and terminal downloads.

      • From Percent Rate (%)
      • To Percent Rate (%)
      • From Per Item Rate ($)
      • To Per Item Rate ($)
      • Fee Name
      • GL Item Code
      • User Data Code
      • Combine Code
      • Volume Tier

        Select this check box to search on profiles/fee items that have Volume Tier pricing (or expense method) in place.

      Tip: When searching on the Merchant DBA, you can enter partial information (at least 3 characters).

      The page refreshes to list the Results Summary of merchants that meet the search criteria, along with a snapshot of the types of fees set up within their pricing profile, and provides icons you can select to export the report to PDF or Excel .

      Note: The x’s indicated in the search results summary only reflect merchant-level fee items, not hierarchy fee items which may be defaulted for that merchant. The indication of x’s reflect a match to the conditions of the search and do not necessarily represent the complete set of fees in that merchant’s pricing profile.

   2. Select a Merchant Number to open the Merchant Pricing Profile page for that merchant.
2. Hover over the Action icon , and then select Manage Merchant DDAs.

   The Manage Merchant DDAs box opens.

   

3. Update the DDA information for the merchant, and then select Save.