Passing Lodging Data
This page will cover the passing of lodging data for card present transactions in both Auth and Charge requests. This is primarily for the Hotels & Hospitality industry.
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This page will cover the passing of lodging data for card present transactions in both Auth and Charge requests. This is primarily for the Hotels & Hospitality industry.
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If you are a Hotel or another eligible merchant type, it may be beneficial to provide specific lodging data in your Auth and Charge transaction requests to Braintree. This may help you achieve lower interchange fees levied by the card networks. We allow for the passing of this data, and the rest of this documentation article will discuss this feature.
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Merchants not under one of the above MCC codes would not be eligible to pass lodging data to Braintree.
You may pass lodging data in both the and mutations as well as a request. The example below will depict using a mutation.
The lodging data, once passed to Braintree, is sent onto the card networks so that the merchant benefits from lower interchange rates. It is also possible to view the lodging data that was passed by looking up your transaction in the Braintree control panel on the Transaction Details Page under the section "Industry Specific Data".
The passing of lodging data is NOT supported for , and if these API fields are passed for an offline transaction, it will result in an API error.
We support the passing of lodging data when using the or API mutations; however, you may also pass this data when you send a request against an authorization.