A transaction request sent from an Acquirer Member, Processor, Merchant, or Internet Merchant to an Issuer Member for Approval.
A merchant's request for an authorization to accept a cardholder's sales transaction. An authorization request can occur electronically via a credit card processing terminal or via telephone as a voice authorization.
an authorization message that contains attributes specifying the type of request with corresponding attributes needed to take an authorization decision
A request initiated by a consumer to access data for which the consumer does not presently have access privileges.
An electronic message sent from the Merchant's business to the customers credit card issuing bank to request an authorization code for a sale transaction.
A transaction request submitted by a merchant to verify that funds are available on a customer's credit card for a purchase. Further action by the merchant depends on whether the transaction request type is an Authorization Capture or an Authorization Only, and whether the transaction request is authorized by the card issuing bank. Also see “Authorization Capture” and “Authorization Only.