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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 MID’s. 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 Servicevault).
- Transactional: This is a child MID. Each partner’s end merchant may have multiple transactional MID’s. The transactional MID is typically used for processing intoToken Management Service, for example, to provision a network token via theToken Management ServiceAPI. This will be directly associated with the partners end merchant and will be created by the partner under the portfolio MID.