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Journey History Service
Card schemes might require transit operators to provide cardholders with a journey
history service that enables the cardholder to view their journey history and receipt
information. Refer to card scheme documentation for more information about each card
scheme's requirements for journey history.
Payment Account Reference
Cybersource
supports the use of the payment account reference (PAR)
by providing the PAR value in authorization responses when a PAR is available from
the card issuer. The PAR response field is
processorInformation.paymentAccountReferenceNumber
. Using the
PAR enables you to track card accounts when digital devices, such as smart phones
and smart watches, have a network token or DPAN that the card issuer provided to the
device. You can use the PAR to provide journey history to cardholders and to match
the card account FPAN and DPAN values.Merchant Descriptor
You can use the merchant descriptor feature to produce a transaction-specific reference
that cardholders can see on their card account statement. To use the merchant
descriptor feature, include the
merchantInformation.merchantDescriptor.name
field in your
authorization, credit, and capture requests. The value for the field must consist
solely of English characters.Before implementing transit journey history functionality, confirm with your acquirer and card schemes that the PAR and merchant descriptor features are supported.
For documentation regarding
Cybersource
card-not-present services that you can use to support a transit system journey history
service, see the Payments Developer Guide
.