merchantInformation. merchantDescriptor.contact

Contact information for your business.
This value must be the name of the city in which your store or outlet is located.
When you include more than one consecutive space, extra spaces are removed.
This value might be displayed on the cardholder’s statement.
IMPORTANT
This value might be ignored by your acquiring bank. Contact your acquiring bank for more information about overriding your default merchant descriptor.
Payouts
For
Chase Paymentech Solutions
, you must use one of the following formats:
  • PCCCCCCCCCCCC
  • NNN-NNN-NNNN
  • NNN-NNN-NAAA
  • NNN-NNN-AAAA
  • NNN-AAAAAAA
Each character in the format represents the following formatting:
  • A: Alphanumeric (alphabetical or numeric)
  • C: Character (alphabetical or blank)
  • N: Numeric
  • P: Alphabetical
Visa Platform Connect
With Mastercard, the value of this field corresponds to the following data in the TC 33 capture file:
Record: CP12 TCR4
Position: 5–30
Field: Acceptor Phone Number

Specifications

  • Data Type:
    String
  • Data Length:
    13

Mapping Information

  • REST API Field:
    merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.contact
  • SCMP API Field:
    merchant_descriptor_contact
  • Simple Order API Field:
    invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptorContact