Contents
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4 January 2010 Merchant Setup and Administration Guide
Removing a Page Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Getting Contact Telephone Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Providing Your Customer Service Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Handling Gift Purchases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Prompting Buyers for Gift Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Prompting Buyers for Gift Wrapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Prompting Buyers for Gift Receipts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Prompting Buyers for Marketing Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Asking Buyers a Survey Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Language Encoding Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Character Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Your Default Language Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Changing Your Default Website Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Changing the Encoding Used by Your Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 3 Viewing Your Account History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Using Monthly Account Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Activating Monthly Account Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Viewing Monthly Account Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Printing Monthly Account Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Downloading Monthly Account Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Deactivating Monthly Account Statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Accessing Your Account History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Searching History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Basic Searching by Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Advanced Searching by Field Value. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Selecting Predefined Time Frames for Basic History Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Specifying Date Ranges for Basic and Advanced History Search. . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Downloading History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting Which Fields to Include in the Download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Understanding the Status and Life Cycle of Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Reconciling Transactions using the Balance Impact Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Reconciling Transactions Using the Net Amount Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Monitoring Disputed Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Programmatic Access to Resolution Center Case Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Appendix A Downloadable History Log Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67