What Is Approval Link and What Does It Automate?
Approval Link is a key component in a network of connections that let you accept procurement, corporate, major, and private-label credit cards from your customers. The Approval Link application automates the following functions: • Receives merchant, customer, and transaction data when Pay on Prepay is executed in DDMS, either on individual orders or in batches. • Translates the data to the appropriate proprietary format for your authorization service provider. • Establishes a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connection with your authorization provider, so that all transaction data is encrypted. • Transmits a request for authorization to capture funds across your TCP/IP network connection to your authorization provider. • Receives authorization numbers from your authorization provider. • Writes the authorization numbers to your DDMS O/E History data for each transaction. Before DDMS introduced Approval Link software years ago, dealers manually entered credit card transactions into a separate s
