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merchantInformation. categoryCode

Four-digit number that the payment card industry uses to classify merchants into market segments.
A payment card company assigned one or more of these values to your business when you started accepting the payment card company’s cards.
When you do not include this field in a request, the value in your account is used.
Chase Paymentech Solutions
This field is optional for Mastercard or Visa card transactions that use the Payouts services.
Note:
For a different combination of services, processors, or conditions, this field might be a required field.
Visa Platform Connect
This field is optional for aggregator transactions using Mastercard or Visa cards with the Payouts services.
The value for this field corresponds to the following data in the TC 33 capture file:
  • Record: CP01 TCR4
  • Position: 150-153
  • Field: Merchant Category Code

Specifications

  • Data Type:
     Integer
  • Data Length:
     4

Mapping Information

  • REST API Field:
    merchantInformation.categoryCode
  • SCMP API Field:
    merchant_category_code
  • Simple Order API Field:
    merchantCategoryCode