Card Knowledge – Level 3 Purchase Card Data
“Level-1” card data is typically associated with consumer transactions and provides limited purchase data back to the cardholder.
“Level-2” data adds more information to benefit the corporate/government/industrial buyer, but the number of fields is limited because of the restricted data capture capabilities provided by most hardware-based POS terminals.
“Level-3” (also known as Level III) line item detail, which is equivalent to the information found on an itemized invoice, requires greater system capability‘
Comparative Example*
|
Data Type |
Level-1 | Level-2 | Level-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant Name | |||
| Transaction Amount (Total) | |||
| Date | |||
| Tax Amount | |||
| Customer Code (30 Char) | |||
| Merchant Postal Code | |||
| Tax Identification | |||
| Merchant Minority Code | |||
| Merchant State Code | |||
| Ship from Postal Code | |||
| Destination Postal Code | |||
| Invoice Number | |||
| Order Number | |||
| Item Product Code | |||
| Item Commodity Code | |||
| Item Description | |||
| Item Quantity | |||
| Item Unit of Measure | |||
| Item Extended Amount | |||
| Freight Amount | |||
| Duty Amount |
(*)This table is provided only for illustrative purposes and should not be construed as a listing of all the possible fields associated with each data level or that every processor will support all the possible data elements.
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