About this Guide
This guide is intended as a reference guide to provide information on Level 2 and 3 enhanced scheme data reporting for commercial cards.
Target audience
The target audience is technical team(s) that handle the processing of the transaction report files. They should have reasonable knowledge of XML/XSD and of the Cards industry.
What's changed?
If you want to find out what's changed since the previous release, see the Document History section.
How to use this Guide
Before you start, read through the Getting Started sections and refer to the reference section to understand the schema, an example report and the individual elements.
Related Documents
Refer to the table below for a list of other relevant documents that should be used together with this guide.
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Provides details of the ThreddExternal Host Interface (EHI). |
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Describes how Global Transaction Reporting works and the structure and contents of the ThreddNon-clearing and clearing transaction reports. |
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Describes the structure and contents of the ThreddTransaction XML reports. |
Other Guides
Refer to the table below for a list of other related guides.
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Description |
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IPM Clearing Formats documentation |
This document includes the structure of offline Integrated Product Messages (IPM)s from Mastercard, and describes details of industry-specific addendum messages. |
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BASE II Clearing Interchange Formats |
This document includes information on the Base II Clearing system from Visa. |
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Electronic Interchange Manual - Issuer - Reissued R22.1 |
This document is the Electronic Interchange manual for Discover. It includes mandatory message types for interchange, and specific message types based on charge-type categories. |
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