(Default = 12) -- This allows you to set a maximum year for acceptable
expiration dates. You must make a business decision on what will be the
latest expiration date you will accept for credit cards. By default, PCCharge
will only accept credit cards within the expiration date range of the
present year through 2012. Enter only the last two digits of the maximum
year.
WARNING: PCCharge is pre-programmed with an initial Last Valid Year.
Periodically, the Last Valid Year for credit cards will need to be advanced.
You are responsible for updating the Last Valid Year in the future.
Invalid Expiration Date Issue from PCCharge Knowledge Base
Merchant receives a response of 'Invalid Expiration Date' in IODebug
log when trying to process a credit card that does have a non-expired
expiration date.
To Resolve:
Verify that the merchants system time is set correct
on the PCCharge machine.
The setting for 'Last Valid Year' needs to be set to
current year plus 15.
Example: If the current year is 2008, the last valid year would be
set to 23.
Electronic Funds Transfer / View / Options / Interface
Interface:
External
Protocol:
External
Electronic Funds Transfer / View / Options / Identification
Merchant Number:
Enter merchant ID supplied by selected credit card provider.
Use Pre-Authorization:
Enabled for fine dinning restaurants.
Disabled for fast-food restaurants and retail.
Electronic Funds Transfer / View / Options / Operation
POS refresh:
Minimum 5.
Close Debit Batch:
Disabled
Note: Remaining information is as per your client's desired configuration
and local authorities.
Available options at the Back-Office
Electronic Funds Transfer / File / Close Batch
Communication will be established with PCCharge and a verification will
be done to make sure the batch is balancing (Between Maitre'D and PCCharge).
If the batch balanced, this will close the current batch. If not, actions
will have to be taken to balance it.
Electronic Funds Transfer / Transaction
All 5 Back-Office transaction types are supported by PCCharge.
P.O.S. Control / Payments / Media Type
Each credit card media type that is managed by the EFT interface must
be defined.
Payment type:
Charge
Payment surplus:
Tip Entry, as credit card companies do not allow cash advances.
P.O.S. Control / Payments / Media Type / Option
Folio:
Enabled
P.O.S. Control / Payments / Card Property
EFT Category:
Select the credit card type.
Electronic Fund Transfer:
Enabled
Hide card number:
This option can not be disabled with CISP compliant protocols. It masks
some digits of the credit card number on the EFT voucher.
Show on Merchant Copy:
This option can not be enabled with CISP compliant protocols.
Validation:
If you enable this option, the Back-Office verifies if the credit card
number entered agrees with certain digits that are always present in credit
card account numbers. If you disable this option, the Back-Office does
not validate the credit card number. You can override this option from
the workstation by entering a minus sign after the card number.
Expiration:
Enabled. The expiration date of a credit card has to be entered in the
format MM / YY.
Debit Card:
Disabled
Custom Card:
Disabled
Expiration:
Enabled
Number of digits:
Some credit card companies have credit card numbers that may vary in their
total number of digits. For example, Visa cards may have either 13 or
16-digit numbers, whereas other cards have a set number of digits, for
example, Master Card cards that have 16 digits and American Express cards
that have 15. Two fields should be filled in order to validate the credit
card number's length. Type the credit card's appropriate number of digits
in the first field then type 0 in the second field to specify that this
is a fixed number of digits (zero is the default for the second field).
Conversely, you will need to enter a number of digits in each field for
cards, such as Visa, that have two possible card number lengths. Type
in 0 in both fields for credit card numbers with varying lengths, which
will remove the need to validate the number of digits.
Starting With:
Type in the first digits of the credit card. Some credit card numbers always
begin with the same digits. These digits can be used for validation. For
example: For Visa payment type's "Starting with" field, type
in 4. For Master Card, type in 5, and for American Express, type in 34
or 37. If both fields are blank, the first digit is not selected.