These reports enable you to identify any discrepancies between the AMEX Merchant Registration application and the boarding systems TSYS Express, Merchant Accounting System (MAS), and Merchant Management System (MMS).
These reports can help you identify merchants that might be processing incorrectly and prevent invalid data being sent to American Express.
Note: These reports are only available for TSYS Acquiring Solutions Full Service and Back-end clients.
In addition, access to these reports depends on your user entitlements. Users that have access to the AMEX Merchant Registration Audit Report will have access to these reports.
To run one of these reports, select the one you want from from the Search Criteria panel's Discrepancy Report Type drop-down list:
This report provides a comparison between the AMEX Merchant Registration application and the boarding systems TSYS Express, Merchant Accounting System (MAS), and Merchant Management System (MMS), and lists any instances where the Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) do not match for a merchant.
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.
The 9-16 digit back end merchant identification number.
The merchant's DBA (Doing Business As) name.
The current status of the American Express registration. Possible values are:
The disposition status of the merchant with American Express. Possible values are:
Note: Once a merchant has been boarded with a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue or 3E- OptBlue-New Provide, its disposition status can only be changed to either of those options.
Merchant registration records with this disposition status will be considered as registered for OptBlue, along with those having a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue, and will be reported to American Express as an OptBlue Seller. Using the disposition status of 3E- OptBlue-New Provider will help to distinguish merchants who have previously accepted American Express from those who are new to American Express card acceptance. The disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue should be used to register merchants who are accepting American Express for the first time, if known, at the time of registration.
Note: Once a merchant has been boarded with a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue or 3E- OptBlue-New Provide, its disposition status can only be changed to either of those options.
This disposition status can provide flexibility when boarding merchants. Merchant registration records with this disposition status will not be considered as an OptBlue opportunity and will not be reported to American Express.
This disposition status is intended for your internal reporting and tracking purposes only, along with the disposition status of 1B- AMEX ESA.
The Federal Tax ID that has been registered with American Express for the Merchant.
The Federal Tax ID that has been registered with the client for the merchant.
The Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) registered in AMEX Merchant Registration for the merchant that do not match the merchant's MCCs at the terminal level.
The Visa Standard Industry Code (SIC) for the merchant that does not match with any of the Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) registered in AMEX Merchant Registration for the merchant.
The terminal-level Merchant Category Code (MCC) for the merchant that does not match with any of the MCCs registered in AMEX Merchant Registration for the merchant.
This report provides a comparison between the AMEX Merchant Registration application and the boarding systems TSYS Express, Merchant Accounting System (MAS), and Merchant Management System (MMS), and lists any instances where the Tax IDs do not match for a merchant.
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.
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).
The merchant's DBA (Doing Business As) name.
The current status of the American Express registration. Possible values are:
The disposition status of the merchant with American Express. Possible values are:
Note: Once a merchant has been boarded with a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue or 3E- OptBlue-New Provide, its disposition status can only be changed to either of those options.
Merchant registration records with this disposition status will be considered as registered for OptBlue, along with those having a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue, and will be reported to American Express as an OptBlue Seller. Using the disposition status of 3E- OptBlue-New Provider will help to distinguish merchants who have previously accepted American Express from those who are new to American Express card acceptance. The disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue should be used to register merchants who are accepting American Express for the first time, if known, at the time of registration.
Note: Once a merchant has been boarded with a disposition status of 1C- AMEX OptBlue or 3E- OptBlue-New Provide, its disposition status can only be changed to either of those options.
This disposition status can provide flexibility when boarding merchants. Merchant registration records with this disposition status will not be considered as an OptBlue opportunity and will not be reported to American Express.
This disposition status is intended for your internal reporting and tracking purposes only, along with the disposition status of 1B- AMEX ESA.
The Federal Tax ID that has been registered with American Express for the Merchant.
The Federal Tax ID that has been registered with the client for the merchant.