Effective date:
April 14, 2023
Processor:
Regions:
All
Service:
Authorization response
Feature
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