Mulitple Merchant IDs

Mar 01, 2007 4 Replies

This is in regards to SO RMS 1.3R and SO RMS 2.0



We have two stores with basically the same inventory and are located in the same building. We have two different Merchant IDs (EDC). I was wondering if I could connect the store number 2 POS terminals with their own EDC configuration to the store number 1 server and settle EDC batches from store number 1?



In other words can I have different EDC configurations on different POS terminals but still settle the EDC batch from any register and have the individual transactions in the EDC batch settle according to the EDC configurations from the Register that the transaction was originally rung up at?



It looks like I should be able to this by looking at the fields in the VisaNetAuthorization and VisaNetBatch tables.



Does anybody have experience with this or is anybody actually using different EDC configurations in the same "Store"? If not why would we have to configure each and every register with EDC information and why would this not be held in the database instead on in the registry? If the information was held under the register configurations in the Manger module it could be easily duplicated if you add a new register in the same store without having to retype all the EDC parameters for every (new) register.


We are doing a simular thing using NewWest's Dual Merchant program.

But does this work out of the box?

It does work. At invoicing it switches between 2 merchant accounts based on customer type for Authorization. At batchout time there are 2 DOS Bat file in the Addins which change the status in the SQL DB and update the EDC information in the Registry. You have to exit and restart Manager each time to pick up the new Registry settings.

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