Glossary
Glossary definitions.
- Abort
A Status value returned in the Response Crypt field contents for Form transactions, or in the Notification results for Server transactions. The Transaction could not be completed because the user clicked the CANCEL button on the payment pages, or went inactive for 15 minutes or longer.
- Account Management
Sage Pay provides an account management service for some of our larger merchants, available on request. If you as the vendor signs up to this service you can benefit from a dedicated account manager who will take care of your Sage Pay account to ensure your enquiries are dealt with straight away.
- AccountType
An optional flag for vendors who have used the Direct integration method to use in their Transaction Registration Post to tell the Sage Pay System which merchant account to use for a transaction in situations where more than one type of merchant account is set up for their Sage Pay vendor account. If no value is supplied, the system will use E (Ecommerce), then M (MOTO), then C (Continuous Authority) by default.
- Acquiring Banks
An acquiring bank is another term used to describe a merchant bank. In order to use the Sage Pay service and take payments online, each vendor needs to open a merchant account, with one of the merchant banks that we work with, to obtain a merchant number. Sage Pay is an approved payment service provider for the majority of UK banks.
- Actinic Secret Key
The Actinic Secret Key is the 12-character string made from a randomly generated mix of numbers and letters. The unique password is provided to Actinic vendors only when your Sage Pay account is created.
- Administration
- American Express
American Express is both a card issuing and an acquiring bank.
- AMEX
The value to pass in the CardType field of the Transaction Registration Post to process an American Express transaction (Direct only).
- AUD
Australian Dollar
- AVS (Address Verification Service)
AVS in an abbreviation for Address Verification Service which is a fraud prevention tool that checks the shopper's address and postcode, as entered at the point of order. The numeric data (billing house/flat number and numerics in the postcode) of the shopper's billing address and postcode are checked against the details registered with their card issuer.