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P-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 and is provided through 3Delta Systems' payment applications. Including this level of detail can help transactions qualify for the lowest available interchange rates.
Comparative Example*
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Data Type |
Level-1 |
Level-2 |
Level-3 |
|---|---|---|---|
Merchant DBA Name |
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Transaction Amount (Total) |
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Date |
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Tax Amount |
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Customer Code (25 Char) |
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Merchant Postal Code |
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Tax Identification |
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Merchant Minority Code |
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Merchant State Code |
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Ship from Postal Code |
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Destination Postal Code |
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Invoice Number |
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Order Number |
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Product Code |
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Product Commodity Code |
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Product Description |
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Product Quantity |
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Product Unit of Measure |
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Product Extended Amount |
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Freight Amount |
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Duty Amount |
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(*)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.