Glossary

Term:	Acronym:	Definition:
Value Added Service	VAS	e.g.: Buying airtime.
Enterprise	ENT	Enterprise PayU merchants that are not redirected out of their site for payments. e.g.: Pick n Pay Safeshops equivalent to Enterprise package type.
Redirect Payment Page	RPP	RPP PayU merchants that are redirected out and then back to their sites for payments. e.g.: Kalahari Safeshops equivalent to Professional package type.
Merchant Handshake	Handshake	Merchants handshake to access PayU data e.g. : Any payment method must have a handshake.
	Manager
	Phisard
Credit card	CC
Trouble Login in	TLI
Setup Box	STB
Rolling Reserve	RR	This is a portion of each transaction that is held back by PayU to prevent losses being incurred when Chargebacks occur for PayU Easy Merchants.
Rolling Reserve Hold Period	RRP	This is the period in which a Rolling Reserve is held back before it is settled to an PayU Easy Merchant.
Payment Card Industry	PCI	Credit Card issuers (e.g. Visa, Mastercard, etc.)
Data Security Standards	DSS	A framework from the Payment Card Industry containing specifications, tools, measurements and support resources to help organizations ensure the safe handling of cardholder information at every step.
PayU Easy	PE	The PayU product offering that allows "small" merchants to accept credit card transactions without having their own Credit Card Acquiring Account. All funds for these Merchants will be receipted into PayU's acquiring account and then settled to the Merchant at agreed upon intervals.
Merchant Acquirer	MA	Essentially the Merchant Acquirer is a Bank that acts like a large switch protecting the merchant from having to understand all the detail of all the different card schemes, (VISA, Maestro, etc, etc.).
Retailer Payments		Two forms of retailer payments: .1. PayU Payment .2. Bill payment e.g. direct (own integration) or retailer (e.g. Pay@)
Instant Payment Notification	IPN	Used to notify merchants about the state of a transaction.
	DPS
Mobile Orders Telephone Orders	MOTO
PayU Easy	PE
Own acquiring
Multi-tender		Using more than one payment method to settle one transaction.
eXtensible Markup Language	XML	It is defined in the XML specification, which is developed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). It facilitates the representation of complex data in a structured manner. You can read more here: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/xml#w3c_all
Simple Object Access Protocol	SOAP	Is a communication protocol based on XML. You can read more here: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/soap#w3c_all