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merchantInformation. merchantDescriptor.name

Merchant business name.
This name is displayed on the cardholder’s statement. When you include more than one consecutive space, extra spaces are removed.
When used with Payer Authentication, this field is the company’s name as it appears to the customer in the issuing bank’s authentication form. This value overrides the value specified by the merchant bank.
IMPORTANT
This value might be ignored by your acquiring bank. Contact your acquiring bank for more information about overriding your default merchant descriptor.
The value must use English characters.
Chase Paymentech Solutions
When using this field for
Payouts
, use one these formats:
  • <12-character merchant name>*<9-character product description>
  • <7-character merchant name>*<14-character product description>
  • <3-character merchant name>*<18-character product description>
FDC Compass
 and
Visa Platform Connect
When using this field for
Payouts
, set it as follows:
  • For a credit card bill payment, set the value for this field to the name of the originator providing the credit card bill payment service.
  • For a funds disbursement, set the value for this field to the name of the originator sending the funds disbursement.
  • For a prepaid load, set the value for this field to the name of the partner providing the reload service.

Specifications

  • Data Type:
     String
  • Data Length:
     25

Mapping Information

  • REST API Field:
    merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.name
  • SCMP API Fields:
    • merchant_descriptor
    • pa_merchant_name
  • Simple Order API Fields:
    • invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptor
    • payerAuthEnrollService_merchantName