ECI - Electronic Commerce Indicator

 

Definition

ECI - Electronic Commerce Indicator

Indicates the outcome of the authentication. The value is related to the PARes Transaction Status and can have a null value depending on the scenario. Even though they have equivalent meanings, each card provider uses their own distinct values.

Values

Card

ECI Value

Meaning

Card

ECI Value

Meaning

VISA

05

This value means that the cardholder was authenticated by the issuer by verifying the cardholder’s password or identity information. The value is returned by the ACS in the Payer Authentication Response message when the cardholder successfully passed 3-D Secure payment authentication

06

This value means that the merchant attempted to authenticate the cardholder, but either the cardholder or issuer was not participating. The value should be returned by the ACS in the Authentication Response message for an Attempt Response. Additionally, merchants may use an ECI 6 in the authorization request when a Verify Enrollment of N is received from the Visa Directory Server

07

This value is set by the merchant when the payment transaction was conducted over a secure channel (for example, SSL/TLS), but payment authentication was not performed, or when the issuer responded that authentication could not be performed. An ECI 7 applies when either the Verify Enrollment or the Payer Authentication Response contains a U for Unable to Authenticate

Master Card

01

Authentication could not be completed but a proof of authentication attempt was provided SLI = 1

02

Cardholder was successfully authenticated (SLI = 2)

Absent

Cardholder authentication failed SLI = 0

Absent

Authentication could not be completed due to technical or other problems (SLI = 1)

American Express

Behave the same as VISA

Diners Club

JCB

Comparative Table

Authentication

ECI Visa

ECI MasterCard

ECI Amex

ECI Diners

ECI JCB

Authentication

ECI Visa

ECI MasterCard

ECI Amex

ECI Diners

ECI JCB

Verified authentication

05

02

Behave the same as VISA

Authentication attempted

06

01

No authentication

07

00

 

ECI Identification Flow

 

 

 

 

References

Card

Document

Card

Document

Visa

Verified by Visa - Acquirer and Merchant Implementation Guide (pág 30) Documentación 3DS

Master Card

MaterCard SecureCode - Merchant Implementation Guide (pág 29) Documentación 3DS

 

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