MasterCard Rules (PDF)

Effective Date MCC Description
7997 Clubs—Country Membership
United States Region Rules
8.2 Authorization Requirements
7999 Recreation Services—not elsewhere classified
1 May 2011 8999 Professional Services—not elsewhere classified
NOTE
9399 Government Services—not elsewhere classified
Acquirers of Merchants in the MCCs listed in this table with an effective date
of 1 May 2010 or 1 November 2010 must support these requirements in all
stand-alone POS Terminal software updates performed after 1 May 2010 and for
all stand-alone POS Terminals that are deployed after 1 May 2010.
For the purposes of this section, stand-alone POS Terminals are POS Terminals
that are not integrated into a Merchant’s POS system, such that the Transaction
amount must be manually entered into the POS Terminal.
8.2.2 Full and Partial Approvals and Account Balance Responses
Customers must provide partial approval and account balance response
authorization services as set forth below:
1. For all Debit MasterCard Card account ranges, Issuers must support partial
approvals.
2. For all Debit MasterCard Card prepaid account ranges, Issuers must support
account balance responses.
3. For all Debit MasterCard Card account ranges, the Acquirer of a Merchant
properly identified with MCC 5542 (Fuel Dispenser, Automated) and that
accepts Debit MasterCard Cards must support partial approvals.
4. Effective as indicated, the Acquirer of a Merchant properly identified under
an MCC listed in the table below and that accepts Debit MasterCard Cards
must:
a. For all Debit MasterCard Card account ranges, support partial approvals
for Card-present Transactions occurring at attended POS Terminals, and
b. For all Debit MasterCard Card prepaid account ranges, support account
balance responses for Card-present Transactions occurring at attended
POS Terminals.
Effective Date MCC Description
1 May 2010 4812 Telecommunication Equipment including Telephone
Sales
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4814 Telecommunication Services
5111 Stationery, Office Supplies
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