Vantiv provides two methods for provisioning and managing legal entitles and sub-merchants on the Vantiv eCommerce Platform:
- The Vantiv PayFac Portal
- The Vantiv PayFac API
The PayFac Portal is a user interface based on the Vantiv iQ Reporting and Analytics framework that allows Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) to easily add, edit, view, and search for legal entities, and sub-merchants. The PayFac Portal is designed to create sub-merchants on a one-by-one basis. Vantiv recommends using the PayFac API to create large numbers of sub-merchants. The Portal itself uses the Vantiv PayFac API to add and manage legal entities and sub-merchants.
Information tracked about sub-merchants in the portal (or accessible via the API) includes but is not limited to:
- Merchant name
- Contact and location information
- Merchant category codes and billing descriptors
- Business URL
- Card brand merchant IDs
- Bank account details
- Legal entity details (for background checks)
- Associated fee structures
The PayFac API is an XML based, RESTful API that is associated with Vantiv’s eCommerce platform. The API can be used by developers to create and update legal entitles and sub-merchants as well as retrieve information about legal entities and sub-merchants in near real time. It can also be used to delete sub-merchants should the need arise.
You can learn more about Vantiv’s PayFac API and review code examples here.
Vantiv ONE Members can review the Vantiv PayFac API Reference Guide for additional information.
A summary of the PayFAC API methods are provided below:
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| POST /legalentity | Request to create a new Legal entity |
| PUT /legalentity/legalEntityId | Request to update data associated with the designated Legal entity |
| GET /legalentity/legalEntityId | Request for information and/or status of the designated Legal entity. Typically used to check status of a Legal entity in Manual Review. |
| PUT /legalentity/legalEntityId/principal/principalId | Request to update data associated with the principal. |
| POST /legalentity/legalEntityId/sub-merchant | Request to create a Sub-merchant associated with the designated Legal entity |
| PUT /legalentity/legalEntityId/sub-merchant/submerchantId | Request to update data associated with the designated Sub-merchant |
| GET /legalentity/legalEntityId/sub-merchant/submerchantId | Request to retrieve information about the designated Sub-merchant |
| GET /mcc | Returns the list of merchant category codes that are currently approved for the PayFac |
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