Fee per transaction file description

The -fee-per-transaction.csv file includes a detail-level report of all fees incurred on payments across all boarded merchants within a given settlement period. This will be delivered every day that settlement has been made along with the other 7 describing that settlement period. Percentage-based fees calculated in this file are provided as indicative values, with final rounding taking place in the calculations for the aggregate file.

The naming convention will be:

<merchant number>-<frequency>-<year>-<ongoing number>-<suffix>.csv

Example: 1-999-W-2016-07-fee-per-transaction.csv

The file will contain the following data:

ColumnDescriptionType
MERCHANT_TX_IDAn optional merchant-provided identifier for the transaction

[a-zA-Z0-9.,-_]{1,40}
string
TX_IDA PPRO-provided identifier for the transactionnumeric
PAYMENT_REFERENCEPublic identifier of the transactionstring
EVENT_TYPESee EVENT_TYPE belowstring
EVENT_TIMESTAMPISO_8601 UTC timestamp (format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ) of the eventstring
MERCHANT_IDContract ID identifying each unique merchant as provided by PPRO upon onboardingstring
PAYMENT_METHODName of the payment method (e.g. “SEPA Direct Debit”)

[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,40}
string
FEE_TYPESee FEE_TYPEs belowstring
AMOUNTAmount of the feenumeric
CURRENCY3-digit ISO currency code describing the amountstring
COUNTRY2-digit ISO country code describing the origin of the paymentstring

EVENT_TYPE Descriptions

EVENT_TYPEDescription
INITIALIZEDA transaction which was initialized and billed as such
SUCCEEDEDA transaction in a technical successful state

FEE_TYPE Descriptions

FEE_TYPEDescription
ACQUIRING_FEEThis is a per-transaction fee (not a %) for processing a transaction
DISCOUNT_FEEPer-transaction % that is debited from the ultimate settlement
PROCESSING_FEEAdditional per-transaction (not a %) fee
SUCCEEDED_FEEA fee charged when a transaction moves from any state to a SUCCEEDED state (not a % of transaction value)

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Note

See your PPRO contract for information about the applicability of each fee type. Reach out to your account manager for more details.

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Important

When files are delivered in the SFTP, they will be zipped in a gzip format (*.gz). Please ensure that your system can extract gz files before processing.