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Elavon Financial Services DAC, trading as Elavon Merchant Services, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
 
Elavon Financial Services DAC. Registered in Ireland with Companies Registration Office. The liability of the member is limited. United Kingdom branch registered in England and Wales under the number BR022122.
Elavon Financial Services DAC, trading as Elavon Merchant Services, is a credit institution authorised and regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.  Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority.  Subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority.  Details about the extent of our regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority are available from us on request.

This is the standard file layout and specifications for Payments Core 365. If you are looking for additional options, see the :magic-link[Enhanced data file layout]{id="enh-data-file-layout"} or the :magic-link[Airline file layout]{id="airline-file-layout"}.

| Field name | Description | Data type | Length | Format |
|---------------|----------------------------|------------------|-----|------------------|
| PAYMENT_REFERENCE | Unique number assigned to every "Fund Event" (ACH Payment/Withdrawal, Wire Transfer, Invoice). | number | 15 | 000000000000000 |
| PAYMENT_DATE | Date the Elavon system created and transmitted the fund event. | date | 8 | MMDDYYYY |
| ACCOUNT_NUMBER | Deposit account number of the customer to which the fund event is directed. | text | 40 | |
| ROUTING_NUMBER | Federal Reserve-assigned routing number to the financial institution receiving the fund event. | number | 12 | 900000000000 |
| FUND_AMT | The amount of the fund event (ACH Payment/Withdrawal, Wire Transfer, Invoice). | number | 23 | $999999999999990.009999 |
| BATCH_REFERENCE | Elavon system-generated number assigned to payment batches within the fund event. | number | 15 | 999900000000000 |
| BATCH_TYPE | Detailed record tag. **Valid values:** <ul><li>`D` - Deposit</li><li>`C` - Chargeback</li><li>`B` - Billing</li><li>`A` - Adjustment</li></ul> | text | 1 | |
| CUSTOMER_BATCH_REFERENCE | Point-of-Sale location reference associated with the settled batch of transactions. | number | 11 | 00000000000 |
| CUSTOMER_NAME | Doing Business As (DBA) Name | text | 32 | |
| MERCHANT_NUMBER | Internal merchant identification number. | number | 11 | 0 |
| EXTERNAL_MID | Customer-facing merchant identification number. | text | 20 | |
| STORE_NUMBER | Optional "store" number assigned to the DBA/MID location. | number | 10 | 0 |
| CHAIN | Organizational hierarchy within Elavon assigned with DBA/MID locations. | number | 9 | 999900000 |
| BATCH_AMT | Amount of the transactions grouped in batches by DBA/MID location. | number | 23 | $999999999999990.009999 |
| AMOUNT | Transaction record amount. | number | 23 | $999999999999990.009999 |
| SURCHG_AMT | Surcharge amount charged on transaction, if applicable. | number | 23 | $999999999999990.009999 |
| CONVNCE_AMT | Convenience fee charged on transaction, if applicable. | number | 23 | $999999999999990.009999 |
| CARD_TYPE | Card scheme-defined type of card (consumer credit, consumer debit, etc.). | number | 6 | 999000 |
| CHARGE_TYPE | Unique interchange product determined by `CARD_TYPE` and method of processing. | number | 10 | 9999900000 |
| CHARGE_TYPE_DESCRIPTION | Long description (32 byte) of the interchange product. | text | 32 | |
| CARD_PLAN | High-level scheme tag (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AMEX, Pulse, Union Pay, etc.). | text | 4 | |
| CARD_NO | Masked number of the cardholder account. | text | 40 | |
| CHK_NUM | Check number, entered at POS. | text | 15 | |
| TRANSACTION_DATE | The calendar day the transaction was processed. | date | 8 | MMDDYYYY |
| SETTLEMENT_DATE | The calendar day the transaction was batched and electronically deposited. | date | 8 | MMDDYYYY |
| AUTHORIZATION_CODE | The 6-digit "APPROVED" reference associated with the purchase transaction. | text | 6 | |
| CHARGEBACK_CONTROL_NO | The "Case ID" of the cardholder's chargeback action. | number | 19 | 9999999990000000000 |
| ROC_TEXT | Record of Charges. Customer-assigned reference tag (Loyalty/Invoice) assigned to the transaction. Alpha/numeric | text | 160 | |
| TRN_ACI | Authorization Characteristics Indicator. Unique Visa term indicative of certain interchange qualification. | text | 4 | |
| CARD_SCHEME_REF | The card reference identifier, can be used to trace a transaction from point of sale through the chargeback process. | text | 36 | |
| TRN_REF_NUM | Elavon system assigned transaction reference tag. | number | 15 | 999900000000000 |
| SETTLEMENT_METHOD | Defines how payment was funded (ACH, Wire Transfer, or Invoice). | text | 5 | |
| CURRENCY_CODE | The ISO currency that funded the payment. | text | 5 | |
| CB_ACQ_REF_ID | The unique reference number generated by Elavon and sent back to the card associations on each transaction applied for identification on chargeback records. This is the original transaction ARN value | text | 23 | |
| CHGBK_RSN_CODE | The reason associated with a cardholder chargeback action. | text | 9 | |
| CHGBK_RSN_DESC | The reason description associated with a cardholder chargeback action. | text | 50 | |
| MER_REF | Unique customer defined field. Numeric only. | text | 92 | |
| PURCH_ID | Merchant identifier on the purchase (Card Rental Agreement, Hotel Folio, Order/Invoice Number or Other ID) sent to the card issuer. | text | 25 | |
| CUST_COD | The cardholder-identified reference value. Required in Commercial Purchase Card transactions. Example: Purchase Order Number. | text | 68 | |
| TRN_ARN | A unique reference number generated by Elavon and sent to the card association on each transaction. | text | 23 | |
| TERM_ID | Terminal identification number. | text | 24 | |
| ENT_NUM | Entity number within Elavon's hierarchy. | number | 6 | 999999 |

Standard File Layout

Alliance Offers

Data as a Service

Invitation to Apply

Accounts

Bank Holidays

Card Activation

Card Controls

Commercial Credit Cards

Credit Card Account Details

Credit Card Accounts Overview

Credit Card Alerts

Credit Card Application Status

Credit Card APRs

Credit Card Payments

Credit Card Qualified Offers

Credit Card Statements

Credit Card Transactions

Data Sharing for Marketing Purposes

Digital Wallets

Make a Payment - Coming Soon

Rewards Accelerator

Rewards Automatic Redemption

Rewards Balance Summary

Rewards Redemption Coming Soon

Rewards Redemption Accounts

Rewards Redemptions

Rewards Transactions Earned and Redeemed

Travel Notifications

User Profile

3DSecure2

Avvance

CheckoutJs

Commerce SDK

Converge

Disputes Management

Dynamic Currency Conversion

eBoarding

Elavon Cloud Payments Interface

Fusebox

Hosted Payment Page

In Person Payments on Opayo

Leads

Lightbox payment modal

Online Payments on Opayo

Opayo

Opayo Direct

Opayo Forms

Opayo Reporting API

Opayo Server

Opayo Shared API

Payment Method Gateway

Payments Core 365

Simplify

viaconex

XML API

Access Online Transactions

Account Transfers

Account Validation

ACH Originations

Bank Information

Card as a Service

Card as a Service API

Check Payables

Core Banking API

Corporate Account Information

Corporate Credit Cards

Corporate Onboarding

Corporate Statements

Custody

Data Toolbox

Data Toolbox - Accounts

Data Toolbox - Documents

Data Toolbox - Transactions

Disbursements via Zelle

U.S. Bank Flexible Capital Platform

Freight Payment Customer Profiles

Freight Payment Transactions

Instant payments

Investment Accounting

Money Movement API

PaySmart

Payee Choice

Payee Token+

Personal Loans

Positive Pay

Push to Card

Receivables

Reference API

RTP® - Real-Time Payments

Tokenized Payments

Treasury Builder

U.S. Bank FBO Account

Virtual Account Reporting

Virtual Card Payments

Voyager Accounts

Voyager Cards

Voyager Drivers

Voyager Transactions

Voyager Vehicles

Wire Transfers

Payments Core 365 Overview

Getting Started

Field definitions

Enhanced Data File Layout

Airline File Layout

Card Type and Card Plan

Best Practices

Support