Authorizations Research & Downloads

The Authorization Research & Downloads tool is your deep-dive interface for transaction-level analysis. It's designed to provide full transparency into individual authorization records, enabling detailed case research, ad hoc reporting, and audit validation.

Whether you're investigating a specific transaction, validating processor charges, or building a custom report, this tool gives you the controls and visibility needed.

On-Screen Notice

The dashboard displays the following banner at the top of the page:

Default view shows Authorizations. Use filters or saved views to access Verifications and Rejects.

Check your date range first. The Authorization Date filter defaults to the last 3 days. Widen it before drawing any conclusion about volume or before exporting.

What It Does

  • Displays raw, row-level authorization data

  • Includes comprehensive filters for narrowing to specific transactions

  • Offers 110+ fields across client, processor, MID, card data, and metadata

  • Allows for on-screen review or CSV download

  • Supports multi-transaction analysis for operational follow-up, dispute validation, or performance modeling

Filtering Capabilities

At the top of the tool, a full panel of filters allows you to precisely target the transactions you need:

Filter Name

Function

Acquirer (PSP)

Filter to a specific payment service provider or processor

Auth Response Category

Select by response grouping (e.g., Approved, Declined, Rejected)

Auth Type

Narrow to a specific authorization type

Authorization Amount

Filter by a minimum and maximum authorization value

Authorization Code

Search by specific authorization code (exact match)

Authorization Date

Defaults to the last 3 days. Widen it before any volume analysis or export

BIN (First 6)

Enter first six digits of card number (BIN) to analyze issuer trends

Card Funding Source

Split by debit, credit, prepaid, and similar funding types

Card Issuer Group

Search transactions by card issuers

Card Number

Filter by card number pattern (masked, ends with)

Issuer Region

Narrow to issuers in a particular region, useful for separating domestic from cross-border approval behaviour

Merchant Account

Look up transactions by merchant account

Merchant Order Number

Search using exact or partial merchant order reference

MID

Filter by specific Merchant ID

MID Name (Division)

Select by merchant division name

MID Rollup 2 (Harmonize Group)

View grouped MIDs under a harmonized rollup

MOP Name

Refine by method of payment

MOTO Indicator

Isolate mail order and telephone order transactions, which is also how card-not-present volume is identified for several acquirers

Network Response Code

Search or group by network-specific response codes

Presenter

Filter by the presenting entity on the authorization

Txn Category

The default view shows Authorizations. Use this filter to reach Verifications and Rejects, which are otherwise not in your results

Wallet Type

Separate wallet-originated transactions such as Apple Pay or Google Pay from direct card entry

Multiple filter combinations can be applied simultaneously to zero in on specific use cases.

Example Use Cases

Use Case

How to Do It

Find all declined Visa auths for a specific MID

Set MOP Name = Visa, Auth Response Category = Declined, MID = X

Audit all transactions above $1,000 from a certain card BIN

Set BIN (First 6), then set Authorization Amount min to 1000

Download all approvals from a specific PSP in February

Set Authorization Date to February, Acquirer (PSP), and Auth Response Category = Approved

Review verification or reject traffic

Set Txn Category, since neither appears in the default view

Downloading the Data

Once you've applied your filters:

  1. Confirm your Authorization Date range, since three days is rarely what you want in an export

  2. Click Download CSV at the top right of the filter panel

Downloads are limited to 1 million records. If you are near that ceiling, narrow by date range or MID and export in batches rather than assuming you received everything. Clear Filters, next to the download button, resets the panel.

CSV is the only export format offered here.

Best Practices

  • Use Authorization Code or Merchant Order Number to pin down a single transaction, and MID plus Authorization Date to scope a batch

  • Use BIN (First 6) and Card Issuer Group to isolate patterns from specific banks

  • Use Auth Response Category with Network Response Code together when investigating declines, since the category tells you what happened and the response code tells you why

  • Pair this with the Declines Dashboard to validate reject behavior in context