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UN/EDIFACT
DRAFT RECOMMENDATION
Authorization message
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This message is available for formal trial for at least six months from the date of approval by UN/ECE/TRADE/WP.4.
Organisations are invited to trial this message. Comments on the results from the trial should be forwarded to their Rapporteur's Team Secretariat as soon as they are available. Based on the results of the trials, a UNSM may be issued.
The segments, composite data elements, data elements and codes for use in the trial of this message are contained in the Draft directory. However, this information may differ from that in the Standard directory (UNTDID), even for material having the same identifying tags.
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| Message Type: | AUTHOR |
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| Version: | D |
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| Release: | 95A |
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| Contr. Agency: | UN |
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| Status: | 1 |
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| Revision: | 2 |
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| Date: | 95-01-06 |
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| SOURCE: | Western European EDIFACT Board MD4 |
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CONTENTS
Authorization message
- INTRODUCTION
- SCOPE
- Functional definition
- Field of application
- Principles
- REFERENCES
- TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
- MESSAGE DEFINITION
- Data segment clarification
- Data segment index (alphabetical sequence)
- Message structure
- Segment table
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For general information on UN standard message types see UN Trade Data Interchange Directory, UNTDID, Part 4, Section 2.6, UN/ECE UNSM General Introduction
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This message also occurs in the following versions of this standard:
D94A, D94B, D95A, D95B, D96A, D96B, D97A, D97B, D98A, D98B, D99A, D99B, D00A, D00B, D01A, D01B, D01C, D02A, D02B, D03A, D03B, D04A, D04B |
0. INTRODUCTION
This specification provides the definition of the Authorization message (AUTHOR) to be used in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between trading partners involved in administration, commerce and transport.
1. SCOPE
1.1. Functional Definition
An Authorization Message is sent by the Ordering Customer (or Payor or Agent on behalf of the Ordering Customer) or by a third party having authority on the Ordering Customer's payments to the Ordered Bank, to authorize the Ordered Bank to execute a given financial transaction.
This financial transaction might relate to both multiple messages like PAYMUL and DIRDEB, and single instruction messages like PAYORD and PAYEXT.
An Authorization Message could also be sent from the Ordered Bank to the Ordering Customer or its Authorization Authority to request authorization for a given financial transaction.
Throughout this document the term 'Original Message' refers to the message to be authorized.
1.2. Field of Application
This message may be applied to both national and international settlements. It is based on universal practice and is not dependent on the type of business or industry.
1.3. Principles
- The authorization carried by the message applies to the whole original message (i.e. to all instructions within the message) or to individual debit transactions and their related credits.
- The AUTHOR message may also authorize a single transaction in a multiple direct debit transaction.
2. REFERENCES
See UNTDID, Part 4, Chapter 2.6 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 1.
3. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
See UNTDID, Part 4, Chapter 2.6 UN/ECE UNSM - General Introduction, Section 2.
4. MESSAGE DEFINITION
4.1. Data Segment Clarification
This section should be read in conjunction with the Branching Diagram and the Segment Table which indicate mandatory, conditional and repeating requirements.
The following semantic principles applying to the message are intended to facilitate the understanding of the message.
The Authorization message is structured in three levels: A, B, and C.
Level A Segment Groups 1, 2, 3 and 9 contains general data related to the whole message.
Level B Segment Groups 4 and 5 contains data identifying the message or transaction to be authorized.
Level C Segment Groups 6 to 8 contains the authorization.
The structure of the message is designed to allow several B levels, each B level being followed by its realted C levels.
Where a choice of code or text is given only the code element should be used wherever possible.
0010 | UNH, Message header
A service segment starting and uniquely identifying a message. The message type code for the Authorization message is AUTHOR. Note: Authorization messages conforming to this document must contain the following data in segment UNH, composite S009:
0020 + BGM, Beginning of message
A segment for unique identification of the Authorization message, its type and number and its function, i.e., specifying if it is an authorization or request for authorization. 0030 + DTM, Date/time/period
A segment containing the creation date of the Authorization Message. 0040 + BUS, Business function
A segment providing information for routing of the message. 0050 Segment Group 1: RFF-DTMA group of segments identifying the message to be authorized and possibly the request for an authorization which has been previously sent. 0060 + RFF, Reference
A segment referring to the message that has to be authorized or to a previously-sent request for authorization. 0070 + DTM, Date/time/period
A segment indicating the date and time of creation of the message referenced in the RFF segment or possibly the payment date. 0080 Segment Group 2: FII-CTA-COMA group of segments identifying the financial institutions involved in the Authorization message. 0090 + FII, Financial institution information
A segment identifying the Ordered Bank acting for the Ordering Customer and/or Payor and the relevant account number and currency. 0100 + CTA, Contact information
A segment identifying a person or department for the financial institution specified in the FII segment and to whom communication should be directed. 0110 + COM, Communication contact
A segment providing communication numbers for the financial institution identified in the FII segment and optionally for the contact identified in the associated CTA segment. 0120 Segment Group 3: NAD-CTA-COMA group of segments identifying the parties involved in the exchange of the message. 0130 | NAD, Name and address
A segment identifying the name and address of the non-financial parties involved in the exchange of this message. (Sender and Recipient). 0140 CTA, Contact information
A segment identifying a person or department for the party specified in the NAD segment and to whom communication should be directed. 0150 COM, Communication contact
A segment providing communication numbers for the party identified in the NAD segment and optionally for the contact identified in the associated CTA segment. A group of segments identifying a message or a group of transactions in a message or a specific transaction in a multiple message. 0170 + LIN, Line item
A segment specifying the beginning of details referring to the message/transaction to be authorized. 0180 Segment Group 5: RFF-DTMA groups of segments specifying reference numbers, dates and/or times needed to identify a referenced message or transaction. 0190 + RFF, Reference
A segment indicating reference number(s) for the message or transaction to be authorized. 0200 + DTM, Date/time/period
A segment specifying the date/time of the referenced message or transaction. A group of segments identifying the authorization of the message/transaction. 0220 + SEQ, Sequence details
A segment identifying the beginning of the details needed to give the authorization. 0230 + GIS, General indicator
A segment specifying the kind of authorization given to the referenced message/transaction in a coded form. 0240 + DTM, Date/time/period
A segment identifying dates related to the referenced message/transaction. 0250 + MOA, Monetary amount
A segment giving the amount of the referenced message/transaction. 0260 + DOC, Document/message details
A segment identifying referenced numbers of the referenced message/transaction. 0270 Segment Group 7: FII-CTA-COMA group of segments identifying the financial institutions associated with the referenced message/transaction. 0280 + FII, Financial institution information
A segment identifying a financial institution related to the referenced message/transaction. 0290 + CTA, Contact information
A segment identifying a person or department for the party specified in the FII segment and to whom communication should be directed. 0300 + COM, Communication contact
A segment providing communication numbers for the party identified in the FII segment and optionally for the contact identified in the associated CTA segment. 0310 Segment Group 8: NAD-CTA-COMA group of segments identifying the name and address of non-financial parties associated with the referenced message/transaction. 0320 + NAD, Name and address
A segment identifying a non-financial party related to the referenced message/transaction. 0330 + CTA, Contact information
A segment identifying a person or a department for the party identified in the NAD segment and to whom communication should be directed. 0340 + COM, Communication contact
A segment identifying communications types and numbers for the persons or departments specified in the associated CTA segment. 0350 + CNT, Control total
A segment identifying the type of control checks and totals. 0360 Segment Group 9: AUT-DTMA segment group identifying the authentication procedures used. 0370 AUT, Authentication result
A segment specifying the details of any authentication (validation) procedure applied to the Authorisation message. 0380 | DTM, Date/time/period
A segment defining the validation date/time. 0390 UNT, Message trailer
A service segment ending a message, giving the total number of segments in the message and the control reference number of the message.
4.2. Data segment index (Alphabetical sequence by tag)
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AUT |
Authentication result |
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BGM |
Beginning of message |
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BUS |
Business function |
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CNT |
Control total |
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COM |
Communication contact |
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CTA |
Contact information |
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DOC |
Document/message details |
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DTM |
Date/time/period |
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FII |
Financial institution information |
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GIS |
General indicator |
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LIN |
Line item |
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MOA |
Monetary amount |
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NAD |
Name and address |
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RFF |
Reference |
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SEQ |
Sequence details |
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UNH |
Message header |
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UNT |
Message trailer |
4.3. Message structure
4.3.1. Segment table
| ├─UNH Message header | ×1 | (M) |
| ├─BGM Beginning of message | ×1 | (M) |
| ├─DTM Date/time/period | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─BUS Business function | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 1 | ×2 | (C) |
| │─├─RFF Reference | ×1 | (M) |
| │─└─DTM Date/time/period | ×1 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 2 | ×5 | (C) |
| │─├─FII Financial institution information | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (C) |
| │─└─COM Communication contact | ×5 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 3 | ×3 | (C) |
| │─├─NAD Name and address | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (C) |
| │─└─COM Communication contact | ×5 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 4 | ×9999 | (M) |
| │─├─LIN Line item | ×1 | (M) |
| │─├─Segment Group 5 | ×5 | (C) |
| │─│─├─RFF Reference | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│─└─DTM Date/time/period | ×1 | (C) |
| │─├─Segment Group 6 | ×9999 | (C) |
| │─│─├─SEQ Sequence details | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│─├─GIS General indicator | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│─├─DTM Date/time/period | ×2 | (C) |
| │─│─├─MOA Monetary amount | ×1 | (C) |
| │─│─└─DOC Document/message details | ×5 | (C) |
| │─├─Segment Group 7 | ×2 | (C) |
| │─│─├─FII Financial institution information | ×1 | (M) |
| │─│─├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (C) |
| │─│─└─COM Communication contact | ×5 | (C) |
| │─└─Segment Group 8 | ×2 | (C) |
| │───├─NAD Name and address | ×1 | (M) |
| │───├─CTA Contact information | ×1 | (C) |
| │───└─COM Communication contact | ×5 | (C) |
| ├─CNT Control total | ×5 | (C) |
| ├─Segment Group 9 | ×5 | (C) |
| │─├─AUT Authentication result | ×1 | (M) |
| │─└─DTM Date/time/period | ×1 | (C) |
| └─UNT Message trailer | ×1 | (M) |
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plus sign |
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asterisk |
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Addition/substraction/change to a code entry for a particular data element. |
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hash or pound sign |
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Changes to names. |
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vertical bar |
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Changes to text for descriptions, notes and functions. |
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minus sign |
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A deletion. |
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letter X |
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Marked for deletion. |
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