Visa Enhanced Data
Understand and improve purchasing with Visa
Whether your company uses a Visa Purchasing, Corporate, Fleet, or Commercial one card program your company benefits from detailed information on your payment transactions.
Use this data to:
- Better understand purchasing patterns
- Improve future purchasing performance
- Meet partner agreements with preferred suppliers and vendors such as airlines, hotel and car-rental companies
- Monitor employee compliance
You also can use this data to pre-populate expense reporting tools and streamline administrative processes.
In addition to the Level I data—account number, transaction date, purchase amount, supplier category code, supplier name, city, state, and ZIP code—that Visa supplies for all purchases, Visa provides enhanced Level II and Level III data on purchases of goods and services.
Enhanced Data is provided for the following categories listed below:
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Purchasing
Level II |
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Level I data elements Sales tax amount Sales tax indicator |
Customer code Purchase ID Purchase ID format |
Level III - Summary Data | |
Level I and II data elements plus Ship to/from ZIP code Destination country code VAT invoice reference number VAT tax amount/rate | Discount amount Freight/shipping amount Duty amount Order date |
Level III - Line Item Detail | |
Level I and II data elements plus Item description Item quantity Item unit of measure Item total | Item commodity code Item
product code Item VAT tax amount/rate |
Fleet
Level II | |
Level I data elements plus Sales tax amount Sales tax indicator Purchase ID Purchase ID Format Vehicle or driver ID number (which is customer code) | Fuel type Fuel quantity Fuel unit of measure Fuel unit cost Fuel tax exemption status Gross fuel price |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Odometer reading Service type Net fuel price Non-fuel gross/net price Item discount amount Item description | Item commodity code Item unit cost Item quantity Item unit of measure Item unit cost Item total |
Airline itinerary
Level II | |
Level I data elements plus Merchant name/original ticket number Passenger name Departure date | Origination city/airport code Travel agency code/name Detailed
data for up to four legs of travel: |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Restricted ticket indicator Total fare/tax/fee amount Currency code Exchange ticket number and amount Internet indicator | Electronic ticket indicator Conjunction ticket number Ticket issue date Fare basis code Control ID detailed information for up to 198 legs of travel |
Hotel Folio
Level II | |
Level 1 data elements plus Check-in date | Hotel folio number Number of room nights |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Daily room rate Summary tax elements Telephone and FAX charges Gift shop purchases Movie charges Health club charges No Show indicator | Business center charges Laundry charges Check in/out dates Food/bev. and minibar charges Folio number Parking/valet charges Cash advances Non-room charges |
Car rental
Level II | |
Level 1 data elements plus Days rented Car rental agreement number | Renter name Check-out date |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Daily/weekly rental rate Check Out/in date Location/city of car return One-way/drop-off charges Late return charges/hourly rate Insurance charges | Fuel charges Regular and extra mileage charges Total tax/VAT Telephone charges Car Class Code No show indicator Extra/other charges |
Shipping and overnight courier services data
Level II | |
Level I data elements plus Sales tax amount Sales tax indicator | Customer code Purchase ID Purchase ID format |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Tracking number Pick up date Origin/destination ZIP code Origin/destination country code Number of packages | Origin/destination name and address Item service description Item unit of measure Item weight Item discount amount Item net/tax amount |
Temporary help services data
Level II | |
Level I data elements plus Sales tax amount Sales tax indicator | Customer code Purchase ID Purchase ID format |
Level III | |
Level I and II data elements plus Employee/temp name Social security number Description Cost center Week start/end date Rate indicator | |
Level II and Level III Enhanced Data
Visa leads in consistency and completeness of enhanced data, with more than 2.2 million merchants providing Level II data, more than 2.1 million providing Level III summary data, and more than 350 thousand merchants providing Level III line item detail.1
Through agreements with Marriott, Hilton, Choice, Prime Hospitality, OMNI,
Millennium & Copthorne, Sonesta, and others, over 7,900 hotel properties in
the U.S. and Canada provide folio data to Visa.
Additionally, Visa captures Level III data through five reservation systems
for 95 percent of flights worldwide. Visa provides data for trips actually
traveled as opposed to trips booked but not traveled.
More than 150,000 fuel locations provide enhanced fleet data.
