Westpac MTS Rejects report
This is a legacy format, use CSV2 payment response report instead.
The Westpac MTS Rejects report is sent/retrieved in response to the processing of a Westpac MTS Orders file.
File format
Fixed Width
Legacy Format
Card Payments Only
Account Tokens Supported
AUD Only
Capture Pre-Auth Only
The rejects file contains the list of all transactions that were declined during processing. All files are plain text using UTF-8 character encoding. The file has the following general structure:
- Deposit file header (one only per file)
- Batch header (per supplier business)
- Financial transaction detail (one or more in each payment batch)
Deposit file header
The file header will be the first record in the file.
| No | Field Name | Position | Length | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transaction Type | 1 | 1 | N |
1 to indicate file header. |
| 2 | Error Code | 2-4 | 3 | AN |
Always 000. |
| 3 | Facility Link ID | 5-8 | 4 | AN |
Same as the value specified in the payment file. |
| 4 | File Date | 9-14 | 6 | N |
File date from the payment file in YYMMDD format. |
| 5 | Deposit Sequence | 15-16 | 2 | N |
File sequence number (matches the sequence number in the payment file). |
| 6 | Posting Status | 17 | 1 | A |
O - Original |
| 7 | Processing Date | 18-23 | 6 | N |
File date from the payment file in YYMMDD format. |
| 8 | Filler | 24-110 | 87 | S |
Spaces. |
Batch file header
One batch header record will be present for each payment batch.
| No | Field Name | Position | Length | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transaction Type | 1 | 1 | N |
2 to indicate batch header. |
| 2 | Error Code | 2-4 | 3 | AN |
Always 000. |
| 3 | Merchant ID | 5-12 | 8 | AN |
Supplier business code that processed the transactions in this batch. |
| 4 | Merchant Name | 13-37 | 25 | AN |
Merchant's trading name. |
| 5 | Merchant Location | 38-57 | 20 | AN |
Merchant's trading location. |
| 6 | Merchant State | 58-60 | 3 | A |
Merchant's trading location state. |
| 7 | Batch Date | 61-66 | 6 | N |
Batch date from the payment file in YYMMDD format. |
| 8 | Batch Sequence | 67-68 | 2 | N |
Batch sequence from the payment file. |
| 9 | Posting Status | 69 | 1 | N |
O - Original |
| 10 | Filler | 70-110 | 41 | S |
Spaces. |
Financial transaction detail
Each record represents a transaction that was declined during processing.
| No | Field Name | Position | Length | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transaction Type | 1 | 1 | N |
3 for sale, 4 for refund. |
| 2 | Error Code | 2-4 | 3 | AN |
The response code from the transaction processing. Left-padded with zeros. |
| 3 | Merchant ID | 5-12 | 8 | N |
Same as the value specified in the payment file. |
| 4 | Masked Card Number or Account Token | 13-31 | 19 | AN |
Left justified with trailing spaces. Account token or masked card PAN. |
| 5 | Transaction Amount | 32-42 | 11 | N |
Same as the value specified in the payment file. |
| 6 | Transaction Date | 43-48 | 6 | N |
Transaction settlement date in YYMMDD format. |
| 7 | Trace Details | 49-64 | 16 | N |
A unique reference for a transaction. |
| 8 | Merchant Reference Number | 65-70 | 6 | AN |
Same as the value specified in the payment file. |
| 9 | Filler | 71 | 1 | N |
Zeros - not used. |
| 10 | Filler | 72-77 | 6 | AN |
Always ******. |
| 11 | Error Message | 78-102 | 25 | AN |
Description of why the transaction was declined. |
| 12 | Merchant Secondary Reference Number | 103-110 | 8 | AN |
Same as the value specified in the payment file. |