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by heywire 541 days ago
It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before/after the ISO message (with non-PCI data) to confer additional information outside of the payment transaction. Definitely speeds up time to market, but opens up a whole new array of failure modes to deal with.