Payment Acceptance Rate
Payment acceptance rate is the percentage of eligible payment attempts accepted or approved during a defined period. The metric must state which…
Glossary terms starting with P
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Payment Accuracy
Payment accuracy measures how consistently payments contain and produce the correct amount, currency, asset, beneficiary, reference, fee, status, and accounting result. It…
Payment Active-Active Architecture
Payment active-active architecture runs two or more payment-processing instances, regions, or sites concurrently so each can accept and process production traffic. Active-active…
Payment Active-Passive Architecture
Payment active-passive architecture uses a primary payment-processing environment for normal production traffic and maintains a secondary environment that can take over after…
Payment Address Checksum
Payment Address Checksum is an error-detection value encoded in or associated with a blockchain address so software can reject many mistyped or…
Payment Address Generation
Payment address generation is the process of creating or assigning a blockchain destination for a customer, invoice, order, or account. It can…
Payment Address Normalization
Payment Address Normalization is the controlled conversion of an entered blockchain address into a consistent canonical representation without changing the destination it…
Payment Address Pool
A payment address pool is a managed inventory of blockchain receiving addresses or derivation indexes available for payment allocation and monitoring. It…
Payment Address Validation
Payment address validation is the process of checking whether a destination is acceptable for an intended asset and blockchain network before a…
Payment After Expiration
Payment after expiration occurs when funds reach an invoice after its acceptance window has ended.
Payment Aggregator
A payment aggregator provides multiple merchants access to payment acceptance through a shared integration and upstream acquiring or processing relationships.
Payment Alert
A payment alert is a notification triggered by a payment event, condition, threshold, or anomaly. It can inform customers or operators about…
Payment Alert Acknowledgement
Payment alert acknowledgement records that a responsible operator has seen an alert and accepted ownership of its investigation. It is not evidence…
Payment Alert Escalation
Payment alert escalation is the controlled transfer or expansion of an unresolved payment alert to a higher level of authority, expertise, or…
Payment Alert Routing
Payment alert routing directs a payment-system alert to the appropriate responder, team, tool, and communication channel based on its attributes and operational…
Payment Alert Severity
Payment alert severity expresses how urgent an operational event is and how much business impact it may cause. Severity guides escalation, not…
Payment Alert Suppression
Payment alert suppression prevents or postpones selected alert notifications when predefined conditions show that notifying responders would be redundant, expected, or unactionable.…
Payment Alert Threshold
A payment alert threshold is the defined metric value, rate, duration, or condition that causes a monitoring system to create or change…
Payment Allocation
Payment allocation assigns received or available payment value to invoices, orders, accounts, principals, interest, taxes, fees, reserves, beneficiaries, or other obligations. The…
Payment Amount
Payment amount is the quantity of value requested, authorized, sent, received, applied, or settled in a payment. The field must specify which…
Payment Amount Conversion
Payment Amount Conversion is the calculation that translates a requested amount from one denomination or currency into the crypto amount the payer…
Payment Amount Precision
Payment amount precision describes how many decimal places a payment system can represent accurately for a currency or token.
Payment Amount Rounding
Payment Amount Rounding is the rule used to adjust a calculated payment amount to a supported precision or smallest transferable unit. A…
Payment API
A payment API is a programmable interface that lets an application create, retrieve and manage payment-related records with a payment service. It…