Effective date:
April 14, 2023Processor:
Regions:
AllService:
Authorization responseFeature
Visa will retire certain existing values for Address Verification Service (AVS) result
codes and only send these AVS result codes:
- A: Partial match: street address matches, but five-digit and nine-digit postal codes do not match.
- N: No match: Street address and postal code do not match.
- R: System unavailable.
- U: System unavailable: address information unavailable for one of these reasons:
- The U.S. bank does not support AVS outside the U.S.
- The AVS in a U.S. bank is not functioning properly.
- Y: Match: street address and five-digit postal code match.
- Z: Partial match: street address does not match, but five-digit postal code matches.
Merchants
Merchants must be prepared to receive only the preceding for AVS result code values of
this field in an authorization response message:
- REST API:processorInformation.avs.code
- SCMP API:auth_auth_avs
- Simple Order API:ccAuthReply_avsCode