Effective date:
 October 14, 2023
Processor:
Visa Platform Connect
Regions:
 Australia and Canada
Service:
 Original credit transaction (OCT) request
Feature
Visa supports changes for OCTs that requires acquirers to send merchant address data in Original Credit Transactions in Australia and Canada.
Acquirers
Acquirers that support merchant address data in OCTs going to issuers in Australia or Canada must support these existing fields:
  • Field 43—Card Acceptor Name/Location
  • Field 59—National Point-of-Service Geographical Data
  • Field 104—Usage 2—Transaction-Specific Data in TLV format, Dataset ID 56—Additional Acceptance Information, Tag 81—Acceptor Legal Business Name
Merchants
Merchants must send merchant information in these fields:
  • REST
     API
    :
    aggregatorInformation.serviceProviderName, merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.country, merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.postalCode
  • SCMP
     API
    :
    merchant_city, merchant_descriptor_country, merchant_name, merchant_postal_code, merchant_state_code, service_provider_name
  • Simple Order
     API
    :
    invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptorCountry, invoiceHeader_merchantDescriptorpostalCode, octService_serviceProviderName