Viewing and Manually Deleting Worldpay Payment Processing Accounts

Using the PASS Account Utility, you can view and delete payment accounts manually. We recommend that you review your payment accounts at least once a month to ensure that you are being billed for only the payment accounts that you need. You can also schedule a phantom process to delete the accounts that meet your selection criteria on a regular basis. For more information about scheduling account deletions, see Scheduling Vantiv Payment Account Deletions.

Use the selection criteria in the PASS Account Utility to control the performance of the search return time. For example, limit the date range of expiration dates or search for one card type at a time.

Important: When you delete a payment account, the system deletes the information from Worldpay and from Eclipse. You must enter that credit card information again in Eclipse to use the card.

The system cannot delete a payment account if there is an open order waiting to use the credit card associated with that account as payment.

For more information about why it is important to manage your Worldpay Payment Accounts, see Managing Vantiv Payments Accounts Overview.

To view and delete an Worldpay Payment Account:

  1. From the System > Custom > Add On Products > Credit Card menu, select Element PASS Account Utility to display the PASS Account Utility window.

  2. ClosedSelect the criteria you want to use to filter your payment accounts for deletion. You must specify a card brand, an expiration date range, or both.

    Field

    Description

    Acceptor ID

    Much like a merchant number, Worldpay assigns you unique acceptor IDs to identify you as an Worldpay customer. Depending on your business relationship with Worldpay, you might have a different acceptor ID for each branch, or you might have a single acceptor ID that encompasses more than one branch.

    Enter the acceptor ID for which you want to view and delete payment accounts. To enter more than one acceptor ID, click the Multiple button next to the field.

    PASS Type

    (Optional) Select the type of payment account you want to view or delete:

    For example, if you want to delete all your payment accounts for a particular customer, select Customer to help narrow the list. If you want to delete payment accounts for all orders that you placed under a miscellaneous cash customer, select Closed Order.

    Card Brand

    Select the card type, such as Visa or MasterCard, to narrow the list of payment accounts to only those associated with that card type. For example, if you decide that you are no longer going to accept American Express, select that card type to  view and delete only the payment accounts associated with American Express cards.

    You must specify a card brand, an expiration date, or both.

    Expire Begin

    Enter the first date in a range of dates to view only payment accounts that contain cards that expire in or after that month.

    The day of the month is provided here for variable dating purposes, however, the system ignores the day you enter, as credit cards expire on the last day of the month listed as the expiration date on the card.

    The year 2101 and 2001 both end in 01, thus they look like the same year. To get accurate results when searching for payment accounts, the expire begin date should not be prior to 1980, and the expire end date should not be after 2080. You cannot query for a date range greater than or equal to 100 years.

    If you leave this field blank, the system starts its search for cards expiring in January 2000.

    Expire End

    Enter the last date in a range of dates to view only payment accounts that contain cards that expire in or before that month.

    The day of the month is provided here for variable dating purposes, however, the system ignores the day you enter, as credit cards expire on the last day of the month listed as the expiration date on the card.

    The year 2101 and 2001 both end in 01, thus they look like the same year. To get accurate results when searching for payment accounts, the expire begin date should not be prior to 1980, and the end date should not be after 2080. You cannot query for a date range greater than or equal to 100 years.

    If you leave this field blank, the system ends its search in December of the current year plus 11 years. For example, 2010+11 = December 2021.

    Last Activity Over __ Days Ago

    Enter a time period to view or delete only those payment accounts with cards that have been charged since that time. For example, if you want to view and delete cards that have not had activity for over three months, enter 90 in this field.

    Important: If you enter a last activity date and schedule a phantom process to complete your deletions, the system deletes cards you might have entered but not yet charged.

    Your search time can increase if you choose to search using a last activity date.

  1. From the File menu, select View PASS Accounts to display the Element Payment Account Management window.  

The window lists the Closedview-only payment account information for the accounts that meet the criteria you entered.

Field

Description

PASS Type

The type of transaction or entity to which the payment account is connected:

  • Customer - Payment accounts created for credit cards that you entered as default cards for a customer.

  • Contact - Payment accounts created for credit cards that you entered as default cards for a contact.

  • Open Order - Payment accounts for credit cards that you added and saved to an order that still has an open balance or an open generation.

  • Closed Order - Payment accounts for credit cards that you added and saved to an order that has no open balance or any open generations.

If this field is blank, there is credit card information in Eclipse that does not have a matching payment account in Worldpay, rendering it useless. You can choose to delete these accounts manually, or, the system deletes them the next time the overnight routines run.

Card #

The last 4 digit of the credit card number. For example, use this information if you want to contact the customer about a card that has or is going to expire.

Expire

The date the credit card expires.

Name

The customer or contact to whom the card belongs. If the card is saved only to an order, this field displays the order number.

Last Used

The date the card was last used to pay for an order. If you did not specify a last activity date in the PASS Account Utility window, the Last Used column is blank. If you do specify a last activity date, the Last Used column is blank if the card exists in the system but has not been used to process any payments.

Note: Select an account and select Detail from the File menu to display the following additional information regarding the payment account:

Field

Description

Reference Number

A number that is assigned to the payment account to reference it in Eclipse and tie it to the account in Element.

Card Brand

The card type, such as Visa or MasterCard.

PASS GUID

The payment account number as generated by Worldpay. This number is provided for troubleshooting purposes.

Note: Click Edit to display the customer, contact, or order associated with the payment account.

  1. To delete a payment account, do one of the following:

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Do this...

Delete a single payment account

Select the account, and then select File > Delete.

Delete all the payment accounts in the view

From the File menu, select Delete All.

All payment accounts that matched your initial criteria and that are available in the view are deleted.

See Also:

Scheduling Worldpay Payment Account Deletions

Managing Worldpay Payments Accounts Overview