Merchant Pre-Purge Report

This report provides information about merchants that are set to be purged from the system for the current purge cycle.

The report provides information in these columns:

A four-digit number assigned by TSYS Acquiring Solutions to identify the banks that a client has set up for processing.

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 Name

The merchant name associated with the terminal.

Merchant Number

The 16-digit merchant number used in routing chargebacks and retrievals. On the Work In Progress page, the Merchant ID associated with Work In Progress record. When generating reports for front-end only merchants, this is the merchant number (non-Vital).

POS Merchant ID

The unique, 12-digit number that identifies the merchant to the client or agent bank.

Purge Date

The expected date that the merchant record will be purged from Express.

Note: Purge dates are only listed for front-end merchants. No purge dates are listed for back-end or full-service merchants, due to trailing funding-related activity typically associated with back-end or full-service merchants.

Closed Date

The date on which the merchant was designated as closed.

Merchant Type

The merchant's industry sector. In some Express pages and reports, indicates whether the merchant is front-end only (FEO), back-end only (BEO), or full service (FS).