Introduction to Level II and Level III Processing

For business to business customers, Level II and Level III processing can provide lower interchange rates in exchange for providing more information during a transaction.

Level II processing includes additional customer and tax information for the transaction. Level III processing includes line-item data for each transaction.

This document provides guidelines that indicate which fields are required to obtain the best interchange rates. These guidelines are based on industry information available at the time of publication.

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