Merchant ID Hierarchy

The
Business Center
is an online portal provisioned to partners and end merchants. This portal can be used to onboard merchants, view transactional activity and generate and download reports among other things.
There are two environments associated with the
Business Center
. Each has its own corresponding URL in order to gain access to the
Business Center
for the relevant environment:
Test
:
https://businesscentertest.cybersource.com
Production
:
https://businesscenter.cybersource.com
In order to gain access to
Business Center
partners/merchants must be provisioned with an Organization ID, otherwise known as a merchant ID (MID). There are multiple types of MIDs:
  • Portfolio
    : typically a MID that provisioned to partners. Allows partners to onboard merchants into in either a test or production environment.
  • Merchant
    : This is a parent MID that can house multiple transactional MIDs. This will be directly associated with the end merchant and will be created by the partner under the portfolio MID. This MID will be attached to specific functionality such as the token vault (
    Token Management Service
    vault).
  • Transactional
    : This is a child MID. Each partner’s end merchant may have multiple transactional MIDs. The transactional MID is typically used for processing into
    Token Management Service
    , for example, to provision a network token via the
    Token Management Service
    API. This will be directly associated with the partners end merchant and will be created by the partner under the portfolio MID.