Effective date:
April 14, 2023
Processor:
Regions:
All
Services:
  • Authorization request
  • Capture request
Feature
When merchants request an authorization or capture with the merchant country field and sub-merchant country field, Visa sends the Foreign Retail Indicator response field with one of these values:
  • F
    : Merchant country and sub-merchant country are not the same.
  • Space character: Merchant country and sub-merchant country are the same.
Acquirers

Merchant Country

Country code for your business location.
Acquirers that support the Foreign Retail Indicator must support the following data in the TC 33 capture file:
  • Record: CP01 TCR8
  • Position: 166-168
  • Field: Foreign Retail Indicator
  • REST API:
    merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.country
  • SCMP API:
    merchant_descriptor_country
  • Simple Order API:
    invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptorCountry

Submerchant Country

Sub-merchant’s country.
Acquirers that support the Foreign Retail Indicator must support the following data in the TC 33 capture file:
  • Record: CP01 TCR8
  • Position: 166-168
  • Field: Foreign Retail Indicator
  • REST API:
    aggregatorInformation.subMerchant.country
  • SCMP API:
    submerchant_country
  • Simple Order API:
    submerchant_country
Merchants
Merchants that support the Foreign Retail Indicator must include both of these fields in either their authorization request or capture request:
  • REST API:
    aggregatorInformation.subMerchant.country
    ,
    merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.country
  • SCMP API:
    submerchant_country
    ,
    merchant_descriptor_country
  • Simple Order API
    :
    submerchant_country
    ,
    invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptorCountry