The Merchant List screen provides summary information about merchant profiles and gives you access to detailed merchant settings. You can choose whether or not you want this information to be updated automatically in PaymentNet.
If you choose the automatic update option, PaymentNet will configure merchant information automatically when changes are provided by the card association.
If you prefer to manage the updates yourself, or if you want to preserve the existing information you have for the merchant, you can choose to configure merchant information manually.
Note: Merchant information is provided by the card association and for the most part cannot be modified. Although it is possible to modify parent merchant information, it is not recommended that you do so as it can impact report data roll-up. For example, suppose your company or organization uses two different Store Depots to make purchases, one of which is named Store Depot #123 and the other Store Depot #345. If the parent merchant name for one location is Store Depot and you change the name of the parent merchant for the other location to Store Dpt, then the information for the two locations will roll up to two separate parent merchants instead of one. As a result, the data for Store Depot will not be consolidated for reporting purposes.
You can choose which columns you want to display on this screen. Click Customize Columns and select the columns you want to include or exclude and the order in which you want the included columns to appear. Your changes are visible only to you and will be reflected the next time the Merchant List screen displays. For detailed information about changing your screen view, see Customizing Your Screen View.
Note: Program administrators can change the screen view for all users within a hierarchy by editing the screen view settings for the hierarchy. For more information, see Configuring Screen Views.