Question regarding Merchant ID

[alcanzer]

Hey guys,

I'm new to Visa developer center. I'm trying to create a project where I query the Visa database using merchant ID.

I have a few doubts regarding the merchant ID. I've searched over the internet but it seems to make me more confused than solving my doubts.

- Can a merchant have different merchant IDs? (Search results tend to say yes.)

- If the merchant can have multiple IDs, is there anything that is uniquely identify a merchant?

- Can Visa and Mastercard have the same merchant id for an individual merchant or different id?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

[jvenkata]

Hi,

Thanks for your inquiry. To serve you better , can you please let me know which API are you planning to use ? is it Merchant Search, Locator or Measurement or any other API, so we can look into this further.

Thank you !

Jai

[alcanzer]

Im actually using both Merchant Locator as well as Merchant Search. Any explaination is appreciated.

Thanks!