Transaction Tokens and Duplication Detection
Learn about unique transaction tokens which assist with duplicate transaction checking and forced authentication checks.
It is possible that two transactions have very similar details, to the point where they are practically indistinguishable. For example, both transactions have the same:
- card ID,
- amounts,
- currency,
- merchant, and
- card acceptor
In these cases, the transaction_tokenfield can be used as an additional measure to verify whether two transactions are in fact duplicates. If the transaction_token does not match, then the transactions are similar but are not duplicates.
Multiple transactions may have the transaction token
XXXXXX. This token indicates a forced settlement and does not indicate that any two transactions with the tokenXXXXXXare duplicates. Please see Forced Settlements for more information.
Updated 7 months ago