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
An 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 payment address has valid syntax, encoding, network compatibility, and any required destination…
Payment After Expiration
Payment After Expiration is a blockchain transfer detected after the invoice, quote, or payment request has passed its stated expiration time. In…
Payment Aggregator
A payment aggregator provides multiple merchants access to payment acceptance through a shared integration and upstream acquiring or processing relationships. Depending on…
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 is the recorded action confirming that a responsible person or automated responder has seen and accepted ownership of a…
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 is the assigned level of urgency and impact used to prioritize response to a payment-system condition. Severity expresses response…
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 is the number of decimal places or smallest units a payment system preserves when calculating, requesting, comparing, and recording…
Payment Amount Rounding
Payment Amount Rounding is the rule used to adjust a calculated payment amount to a supported precision or smallest transferable unit. In…
Payment API
A payment API lets applications create, authorize, capture, monitor, refund, or otherwise manage payment transactions through a programmatic interface. Production use of…