Change History
Field Name Changes
The following changes were made to field names. The old names will still be accepted by Raven however all documentation has been updated to reference the new names.
| Old name | New name | As of |
|---|---|---|
| CustomerBankNumber | BankNumber | v1.8 |
| CustomerAccountNumber | AccountNumber | v1.8 |
| CustomerAccountName | AccountName | v1.8 |
| CustomerCardNumber | CardNumber | v1.8 |
| CustomerCardExpiryDate | ExpiryDate | v1.8 |
| CustomerCardStartDate | StartDate | v1.8 |
| CustomerCardIssueNumber | IssueNumber | v1.8 |
| PaymentReference | Reference | v1.8 |
| PaymentReference2 | Reference2 | v1.8 |
| PaymentReference3 | Reference3 | v1.8 |
| MemoReference | Description | v1.8 |
| PaymentDescription | Description | v1.9 |
| ExpiryDate | Expiry | 2009-09-08 |
| PaymentRoutingNumber | PRN | 2009-09-08 |
| PaymentType | PymtType | 2009-09-08 |
| CurrencyCode | Currency | 2009-09-08 |
| AccountTaxNumber | TaxNumber | 2009-09-08 |
| PoliticalDivision | ProvState | 1.73 |
The following fields were removed. If they are in a file Raven will ignore them.
| Previous name | PaymentType | As of version |
|---|---|---|
| CustomerState | ACH | 1.5? |
| DescriptivePaymentDate | ACH | 1.8 |
| PayeeNameOverride | ACH | 1.8 |
| PaymentDescription | ACH | 1.9 |
History of Changes to Documentation
| Ver. | Date | Description of changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Jan 20 2004 | First draft. |
| 1.1 | Mar 8 2004 | Minor cleanup, added Giro description, added German EFT section. |
| 1.2 | Mar 23 2004 | Updated description of return address lines in cheque issue request files. |
| 1.3 | Apr 22 2004 | Inserted descriptions for BACS Dutch EFT. Completed German EFT section. Minor corrections to ACH request fields table. |
| 1.4 | May 19 2004 | Removed draft, moved Workbook info to back. |
| 1.5 | June 1 2004 | Removed ‘Not Yet Deployed’ notice from German and Dutch EFT section. |
| 1.6 | June 3 2004 | For the ‘Voided’ result code, added “If more detail about this Status is required, contact customer service.” |
| 1.7 | July 14 2004 | Ensured footers correct on internal sections |
| Noted that same file names may be allowed but should not be submitted | ||
| Added Canadian EFT section | ||
| Updated section headers to be correct | ||
| 1.8 | July 16 2004 | Reordered sections as Card, EFT Payments, Giro & Cheque issue. This keeps like types together. |
| Re-named ACH to ACH (US) Eft to be consistent with BACS (UK) Eft | ||
| Bit of work on Canadian EFT | ||
| Added section on how to submit test transactions | ||
| Added TestSucceeded code to response sections | ||
| Renamed fields to new field names as agreed. For example CustomerCardNumber to CardNumber. | ||
| Removed inapplicable ACH fields. | ||
| 1.9 | July 20 2004 | Add SGDEFT section |
| 1.10 | July 26 2004 | Added section describing format changes |
| 1.11 | Aug 4 2004 | Removed Description as a field for US ACH to reflect reality. Updated payment cycle for newer payment types. |
| 1.12 | Aug 9 2004 | Reference for DEEft should be Text not DTAUS Text as previously documented. |
| 1.13 | Aug 27 2004 | Extended BACS section updating EFT cycle. |
| 1.14 | Aug 30 2004 | Minor changes to BACS languageAdded Hong Kong EFT section. |
| 1.15 | Oct 8 2004 | Formatting changes in Test File section. |
| 1.16 | Oct 18 2004 | Added CoreReference field for BACS |
| 1.17 | Nov 18 2004 | Minor spelling nits |
| 1.18 | Dec 22 2004 | Added French and Spanish sections, also minor spelling nits |
| 1.19 | Feb 16 2005 | Misc. field alias updates as well as the addition of the “Mail Merge” section for Cheque Issue. |
| 1.20 | Feb 23 2005 | Updated PaymentDescription fields. Lengthening those for FR, NL, DE and ES. Indicated CA and BACS payment descriptions will be ignored.Added InstructionReference as a mandatory field for ES EFT. |
| 1.21 | Mar 1 2005 | Add 10 character description field to US ACH.Corrected field name in CA EFT section. |
| 1.22 | April 6 2005 | Added Australian EFT section. |
| 1.23 | April 15 2005 | Spelling and grammar nits. |
| 1.24 | April 28 2005 | Corrected some French field lengthsAdded European Standard Payment specification
Added Japanese EFT specification. This is not completed. |
| 1.25 | May 5 2005 | Minor formatting changes to some tables |
| 1.26 | May 5 2005 | Corrected section headings |
| 1.27 | May 20 2005 | Added language indicating account numbers will be masked. |
| 1.28 | May 26 2005 | Updated JPEFT field information. |
| 1.29 | May 30 2005 | Removed instruction reference from ESEFT type. Corrected length of payment description field. |
| 1.30 | May 30 2005 | More corrections to ESEFT. |
| 1.31 | June 19 2005 | Made all the comment field description the same.Added Polish EFT type.
Minor corrections to Spanish EFT type. |
| 1.32 | June 21 2005 | Several numbering sequences were not starting at 1. |
| 1.33 | Jan. 18 2006 | Added first version of real-time documentation section. Also updated the introduction and the section on testing.Spanish EFT now marked as released. |
| 1.34 | Jan. 25 2006 | Further edits to real-time. |
| 1.35 | May 31 2006 | Removed real-time materialAdded CHAPS material
Updated ACH section to include AccountType |
| 1.36 | June 7 2006 | Added general Return File section and Card Payment specific returned payment status codes. |
| 1.37 | Jan 31, 2007 | Removed the Customer prefix from field names in examples. |
| 1.38 | Feb 9, 2007 | Added section on BR EFT payments. |
| 1.39 | Feb 9, 2007 | Added first, still incomplete section describing the CardIssue payment type. |
| 1.40 | March 5, 2007 | Added password to card issueAdded card load credit to card issue section. |
| 1.41 | March 8, 2007 | Added card serial number as a return value. |
| 1.42 | Mar 29 2007 | Add mention of receipt file to cheque and card issue sections. |
| 1.43 | Apr 12 2007 | Added extra documentation to CA EFT section. |
| 1.44 | May 24, 2007 | Added description of AccountAmount column. |
| 1.45 | June 20, 2007 | Minor clarification to description of Text field type. |
| 1.46 | July 4, 2007 | Replaced ‘Collected’ EFT status by ‘Submitted’. |
| 1.47 | July 9, 2007 | Added config error return codes to Cheque Issue section. |
| 1.48 | Sept. 9, 2007 | Added documentation for template payments. |
| 1.49 | Sept 12, 2007 | Added documentation for Card Payment Fraud Scoring |
| 1.50 | April 18, 2008 | Clarified that template fields are indicated by an *. |
| 1.51 | Sept 9, 2008 | Added cash issue credit as a payment type. |
| 1.52 | Sept 12, 2008 | Removed references to “Test Succeeded” |
| 1.53 | Sept 17, 2008 | Added “CVV2ResponseCode” result column for cards |
| 1.54 | Nov 17, 2008 | Added IE Eft details |
| 1.55 | Nov 20, 2008 | Corrected IE Eft customer name field |
| 1.56 | Dec 4, 2008 | Added structured address information. |
| 1.57 | Dec 16, 2008 | Added instruction reference in IE Eft as a required field.Changed length of core reference in BACS to 12 from 9 to reflect the change made to support Northway. |
| 1.58 | Jan 24, 2009 | Added AT EFT and CH EFT. |
| 1.59 | Jan 26, 2009 | Corrections to AT and CH EFT |
| 1.60 | Feb 17, 2009 | Added note on limitations of template payments. |
| 1.61 | Feb 20, 2009 | Updated AT documentation |
| 1.62 | April 27, 2009 | Updated comments on characters accepted.Changed response “TestSuceeded” to Invallid:TestChannel.
Added documentation on testing of card numbers and magic numbers. |
| 1.63 | May 6, 2009 | Added section on submitting scanned cheques. |
| 1.64 | May 7, 2009 | Changed max field lengths of some fields in CH EFT section. |
| 1.65 | May 7, 2009 | Moved non-standard services to end of document. |
| 1.66 | May 12, 2009 | Updated to add IBAN field to CH and change some validation rules. |
| 1.67 | June 2, 2009 | Updated description of REJECTED file. |
| 1.68 | June 2, 2009 | Added description of web folders v.s. Raven Online to the introduction section. |
| 1.69 | July 7, 2009 | Added a few additional cheque issue merge fields. |
| 1.70 | Aug 19, 2009 | Added account amount to all eft payment types.Changed length of city field to 35. |
| 1.71 | Aug 27, 2009 | Corrected status response codes for CHAPSCorrected result fields for ChequeIssue payments |
| 1.72 | Sept. 1, 2009 | Added additional notes to clients regarding addresses. |
| 1.72 | Sept. 8, 2009 | Converted to HTML. |
| 1.73 | Nov. 23, 2009 | Finalized HTML Conversion
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| 1.74 | Dec 3, 2009 | Updates to CH EFT section. |
| 1.75 | Feb 15, 2010 | Template values for EFT clarified. Now shows the following template fields will be used:
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| August 15, 2010 | Deprecated existing API and replaced it with on using HMAC signing and requiring a request ID. |