8 Viewing Transactions

You can use either Thredd PortalClosed Thredd Portal is Thredd's new web application for managing your cards and transactions on the Thredd Platform. or Smart ClientClosed Smart Client is Thredd's legacy desktop application for managing your cards and transactions on the Thredd Platform. to view your card transactions. The Transaction Detailsscreen/page displays fields applicable to Discover networks.

Refer to the table below for further details of Discover transaction fields.

Field

Description

Message Type

The type of transaction, such as an authorisation or presentment.

Token

The unique token number associated with the transaction.

Date Expiry

The expiry date provided at the time of the transaction (useful to check in case the cardholder has entered an incorrect expiry date).

POS entry mode (DE022)

How the transaction was created, for example, contactless at a machine, ecommerce, online, ATM. ICC indicates the card was physically inserted into a machine and the PIN entered.

Network Reference ID (DE123)

The Network Reference ID (NRID) is a numeric ID generated by DCI and remains unchanged for the life of the Card Transaction.

Transaction Date

The date of the transaction. Format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:MS.

Message Reason Code

The Message Reason Code data element provides the receiver of a request, advice or notification message with the reason, or purpose, of that message.

Response status (DE039)

The status sent back to the merchant, for example, 05 - do not honour. Click the arrow next to this field to see more information.

STAN (DE011)

System Trace Audit Number. This links the authorisation and presentment (note this number is not unique).

Processing code

Indicates the type of transaction, for example, a debit.

Additional Amounts (DE054)

Contains additional amount information for the transaction, if relevant. For example, for purchase with cashback transactions, the additional amounts field will be present with the cashback amount.

Card Acceptor Identification Code (DE042)

Code relating to the specific Point of Sale (POS) terminal.

Card Acceptor Name Location (DE043)

Merchant’s details.

Additional Response Data (DE044)

Visa’s Additional Response Data, exactly as provided from Visa to Thredd. This will only be present for transactions received by Thredd from Visa Base1, if DE44 was present.

It provides information on Visa’s validation checks of data in the message. This will only be set for Visa online authorisation transactions.

Till Time

Time provided by the merchant (can be incorrect but matches what is on the receipt).

Card Acceptor Terminal Identification (DE041)

Uniquely identifies the terminal which accepted the card. Always present if the card data was read by a terminal.

Response Source

Indicates which system sent the 0110 or 0210 response to the terminal. Normally present only for some Authorisation advices and Authorisation reversals.

Response Reason

Indicates the reason why the Response Source sent a response to the terminal. Normally present only for some Authorisation advices and Authorisation reversals.

Transaction ID

Identifier for tracing a specific transaction and narrowing a search. This a unique identifier generated by Thredd to help identify and search for transaction in the Thredd platform.

Transaction Amount (DE004)

Transaction amount and currency.

Settlement Amount (DE005)

Settlement amount and currency.

Billing Amount (DE006)

Amount applied to the account in the currency of the card.

Merchant Category Code (MCC)

Code that describes a merchant's primary business activities.

Retrieval Reference Number (DE037)

A unique reference to the transaction assigned by the acquirer. All messages related to the same transaction (reversals, presentments, chargebacks) should have the same RRN; however, this may not be enforced.

Acquirer Reference Data (DE031)

Acquirer Reference Number/Data. ISO 8583 field 31.

The acquirer reference number exists for clearing messages only (Financial advices/notifications, and Chargeback advices/notifications (and reversals of)).

Acquirer ID in ARN (DE31)

Acquirer ID found in the Acquirer Reference Number (ARN). Provided for financial messages only.

Acquirer ID

Acquiring Bank ID as assigned by the network. Note that the format differs depending on whether this is an Authorisation or a Financial type message.

For Authorisation messages:

  • 2 digits length of Acquirer ID (01 to 09)

  • Acquirer ID

For Financial messages:

  • 6 digit Acquirer ID (possibly with leading zeros)

FID (DE033)

Identifies the acquiring institution forwarding a Request or Advice message.

Authorisation Code

Authorisation code generated by Thredd for approved and declined authorisation requests.

Network

The network that processed the transaction.

Request Time

The time when Thredd receives this authorisation, in the local time zone of the Thredd servers.

Response Time

The time when Thredd sends the response (the difference between the request and response times is shown below in milliseconds), in the local time zone of the Thredd servers. Note that the response time in milliseconds is the time for the entire transaction to complete across all parties.

Difference (in milliseconds)

The difference, in milliseconds, between the request time and the response time of the transaction.

ICC Data (DE055 - 0100)

Data from the card’s chip. Click the arrow next to this field to see more information, for example, you can check whether the online and offline PINs were verified when making a transaction.

Additional data (DE048)

Information about 3D Secure (payer authentication) for online transactions. Click the arrow next to this field to see more information.

Fees Detail Note

Shows any fees applied to this transaction.

Function Code

The Function Code data element is the code indicating the specific purpose of the message within the message class.

Surcharge Fee

This field contains the data to support transaction-level information when a Service Establishment assesses a surcharge on a Card Sale.

Additional Authorization Data DGN

This data element contains multiple tags with unique functions. Please refer to the table for details.

Transaction Destination IIC

The Transaction Destination Institution Identification Code (IIC) data element is the code identifying the institution that is the transaction destination.

Transaction Originator IIC

The Transaction Originator Institution Identification Code (IIC) data element is the code identifying the institution that is the transaction originator.

For more information, see the Thredd Portal Guide or the Smart Client Guide.