Defining Authorization Service Countries

Purpose: Each service bureau that your company uses may assign its own country codes to the various credit card payment methods. These country codes may differ from the country codes your company uses.

The Authorization Service Country function is used to cross reference the country codes your company uses with the country codes the authorization and deposit service uses. By cross referencing the country codes:

• You can use your country codes when entering orders.

• The country code the service bureau uses can be included in the Authorization and Deposit transactions that are transmitted to the service bureau.

• When you create the country cross-reference, you can also indicate whether the service bureau performs address verification for the country.

Note: Use this option if you are sending transactions to the service bureau using a point-to-point integration.

Cybersource point-to-point integration: The Cybersource Point-to-Point Integration sends the authorization service country in the transactions sent to Cybersource. However, regardless of the setting of the AVS flag for the authorization service country, Cybersource always performs address verification.

In this chapter:

• Work with Authorization Service Country Screen

• Create Authorization Service Country Screen

Work with Authorization Service Country Screen

Purpose: This screen displays the country cross references currently defined for the service bureau. Use this screen to create, change, or delete the country cross reference information.

The country codes your company uses are defined in the Country table; the country codes the service bureau uses are provided by the service bureau.

How to display this screen: At the Work with Authorization Services Screen, select Country for the service bureau.

Field	Description
Authorization service	The code and description of the service bureau for which you are defining a country cross reference. Code: Alphanumeric, 3 positions; display-only. Description: Alphanumeric, 30 positions; display-only.
Country	A code you use to identify a country. Country codes are defined in and validated against the Country table; see Setting Up the Country Table (WCTY). Alphanumeric, 3 positions; optional.
Authorization Service Country	The code the service bureau uses to identify a country. Vendor country codes are provided by the service bureau. Alphanumeric, 3 positions; optional.
AVS	Defines whether the service bureau performs address verification for the country. N = The service bureau does not perform address verification for the country. Y = The service bureau performs address verification for the country. Alphanumeric, 1 position; display-only.

Option	Procedure
Create a country cross reference	Select Create to advance to the Create Authorization Service Country Screen.
Change a country cross reference	Select Change for the country cross reference to advance to the Change Authorization Service Country screen. At this screen you can change the Authorization service country and the Address verification setting. See the Create Authorization Service Country Screen for field descriptions.
Delete a country cross reference	Select Delete for the country cross reference to delete it.

Create Authorization Service Country Screen

Purpose: Use this screen to cross reference the country codes your company uses with the codes the service bureau uses. For example, your company may use country code USA to identify the United States of America, whereas the service bureau may use country code US.

The country codes your company uses are defined in the Country table; the country codes the service bureau uses are provided by the service bureau.

How to display this screen: Select Create at the Work with Authorization Service Country Screen.

Field	Description
Authorization service	The code and description of the service bureau for which you are defining a country cross reference. Code: Alphanumeric, 3 positions; display-only. Description: Alphanumeric, 30 positions; display-only.
Country	A code you use to identify a country. Country codes are defined in and validated against the Country table; see Setting Up the Country Table (WCTY). Alphanumeric, 3 positions. Create screen: required. Change screen: display-only.
Authorization service country	The code the service bureau uses to identify a country. Vendor country codes are provided by the service bureau. Alphanumeric, 3 positions; required.
Address verification	Defines whether the service bureau performs address verification for the country. Unselected = The service bureau does not perform address verification for the country. Selected = The service bureau performs address verification for the country.