Features Introduced This Week

  • [RM-19339]
    • Description
      : unattended terminals are now supported for FDC Nashville Global merchants.
    • Audience
      : OmniPay merchants
    • Benefit
      : improved authorization rates
    • Technical Details
      : to successfully process transactions on unattended terminal, merchants send the POS terminal type in the
      pointOfSaleInformation.operatingEnvironment
      REST API field:
      • 2
        : Unattended terminal on the merchant's premises (such as oil, kiosks, self-checkout, mobile telephone, personal digital assistants (PDAs)
      • 4
        : Unattended terminal off the merchant's premises (such as vending machines, home computer, mobile telephone, PDAs)
    • Important Dates
      : released to Production on August 16, 2023
  • [RM-19339]
    • Description
      : when the 3-D Secure service is unavailable or nonresponsive, OmniPay merchants can proceed to authorization and include the Strong Customer Authentication outage exemption indicator in their API calls.
    • Audience
      : OmniPay merchants
    • Benefit
      : improved authorization rates
    • Technical Details
      : To be determined
    • Important Dates
      : released to Production on August 16, 2023
  • [RM-23430]
    • Description
      : personal account numbers (PAN) older than 180 days will be deleted from the India data center.
    • Audience
      : merchants in the India data center.
    • Benefit
      : compliance with Reserve Bank of India mandates
    • Technical Details
      : no action to be taken by merchants
    • Important Dates
      : transaction search data will have PAN removed starting August 16, 2023. Removal ongoing until completed.
  • [RM-23483]
    • Description
      : the Sales Management Enablement Service (SMES) can now be used by portfolios and resellers to add, update, and delete sales users to help merchants with onboarding, and to generate links for merchants to complete the merchant application.
    • Audience
      : portfolios and resellers
    • Benefit
      : SMES makes it easier to manage sales representatives and onboard merchants.
    • Technical Details
      : not applicable
    • Important Dates
      : CAS release on August 16, 2023; Production release on August 17, 2023.
  • [RM-22760]
    • Description
      : Support for Merchant-Initiated Transactions (MIT) is now enabled for all Streamline merchants
    • Audience
      : Streamline merchants
    • Benefit
      : merchants on Streamline are not required to enable MIT in order to be compliant with the MIT mandate in Europe.
    • Technical Details
      : no client changes needed
    • Important Dates
      : released to Production on August 16, 2023.
  • [RM-23743]
    • Description
      : the Payer Authentication search functionality is now incorporated into the Transaction Management page as an XID filter.
    • Audience
      : all users
    • Benefit
      : redundant feature removed
    • Technical Details
      : no efforts needed from user
    • Important Dates
      : released to Production on August 14, 2023
  • [RM-24072]
    • Description
      : For Token Management Service (TMS) merchants, network tokens are no longer provisioned after successful authorizations.
    • Audience
      : TMS merchants
    • Benefit
      : Higher authorization success rate.
    • Technical Details
      : not applicable
    • Important Dates
      : Production release on August 17, 2023.