Mastercard Business Payment Controls

Business Payment Controls is an application programming interface (API) based solution that simplifies business payments by using configurable controls to limit spending on real and virtual cards, while allowing finance teams to reconcile payments using transaction-level reporting.

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OpenAPI Specification

mastercard-business-payment-controls-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Mastercard Business Payment Controls
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    Business Payment Controls is an application programming interface (API)
    based solution that simplifies business payments by using configurable
    controls to limit spending on real and virtual cards, while allowing finance
    teams to reconcile payments using transaction-level reporting.
  contact:
    name: API Support
    email: apisupport@mastercard.com
    url: https://developer.mastercard.com/support
servers:
  - url: https://apiedge.mastercard.com/commercial
    description: Production Server
  - url: https://sandbox.apiedge.mastercard.com/commercial
    description: Sandbox Server
tags:
  - name: Entities
    description: >-
      Entities Search - Fetch entity identifiers which can be used to register
      Real Cards at the appropriate hierarchy level
  - name: Real Card
    description: >-
      Real Card Operations - Registering a card, updating, deleting or searching
      registered real cards.
  - name: Contact
    description: >-
      Contact Operations - Linking a contact to a card, updating, deleting or
      searching for contacts associated with real cards.
  - name: Funding Source
    description: >-
      Funding Source Operations - Creating a funding source with controls,
      updating, deleting or retrieving controls associated with a funding
      source.
  - name: Virtual Card
    description: >-
      Virtual Card Operations - Generating a VCN with controls, updating,
      deleting or searching created virtual cards.
  - name: Custom Data Fields
    description: >-
      Custom Data Fields (CDF) Operations - Create, read, update, delete and 
      search custom data fields entries attached to an issuer or a corporate and
      linked to a particular card (real or virtual) for reporting. against the
      RCN/VCN.
  - name: Authorization Report
    description: >-
      Authorization Report Operations - Creating an Authorization Report that
      lists the authorizations that have occurred against the RCN/VCN or
      retrieving reports previously created.
  - name: Clearing Report
    description: >-
      Clearing Report Operations - Creating a Clearing Report that list details
      of the transactions that have been cleared against the RCN/VCN or
      retrieving reports previously created.
  - name: Clearing Summary Report
    description: >-
      Clearing Summary Report Operations - Creating a Clearing Summary Report
      that will list summary details of transactions that have been cleared
      against the RCN


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