Release Notes {#rn-general}
===========================

These release notes cover all releases to the production server for the week ending June 20, 2025.

Announcements {#rn-announce}
============================

There are no announcements for June 20, 2025.

Features Introduced This Week {#rn-features}
============================================

**Decision Manager** \| RM-36319
--------------------------------

Description
:
Ekata has reached end of life as a third party service for Decision Manager. It is no longer available through Decision Manager.

Audience
:
Users of Decision Manager.

Technical Details
:
None.

Important Dates
:
Released to production June 17, 2025.

**Merchant Boarding API** \| RM-35947
-------------------------------------

Description
:
This release adds a new API endpoint that enables merchants to resend the boarding welcome email.

Audience
:
Users of Merchant Boarding.

Benefit
:
Previously, resending the boarding email was done manually in the Business Center. Now it can be done through the API.

Technical Details
:
**Request Example:**
:

    ```
    {
      "organizationId": "rk6t2fgy34gow0001",
      "notificationType": "BoardingWelcome",
      "deliveryMethods": [
        "response", "email"
      ]
    }    				
    ```

:
**Response Example:**
:

    ```
    {
      "submitTimeUtc": "2025-06-17T19:42:36Z",
      "message": "Request was processed successfully.",
      "reason": "Success",
      "details": {
        "ActivationLinkNotification": [
          {
            "field": "activationLink",
            "value": https://vip-gl-b-cgk2-sit.visa.com:8443/ebc2/user/regist
    ration?token=mJeQVsO6AcVBqTHlAE8yJSd42J9YXJUK8awIk8knzmCn8C1SHNWA3JZQUst
    DOrintXhN0ZQTz13blmNC4s5Go6GOiWychUcHg5I5VDnYRx37WEiB9SgEzOZZUmqxzLiB
          }
        ]
      }
    }    				
    ```

Important Dates
:
Released to production June 17, 2025.

**Account Funding Transaction** \| RM-36384
-------------------------------------------

Description
:
Merchants who process Visa Account Funding Transactions (AFTs) can use the BusinessApplicationID field to restore the balance of a funding account to full.

Audience
:
Merchants who process Visa Account Funding Transactions through WorldPay/Streamline.

Benefit
:
Merchants can support the full range of Visa AFT functionality in accordance with Worldpay specifications.

Technical Details
:
Set the value of the BusinessApplicationID to the ID of the cardholder associated with the funding account.

Important Dates
:
Released to production June 17, 2025.

Fixed Issues {#rn-fixed-issues}
===============================

No customer-facing fixes were released this week.

Known Issues {#rn-known-issues}
===============================

**Merchant Boarding** \| EPS-31817
----------------------------------

Description
:
When merchants set TSYS as the processor for transacting merchant accounts, they are unable to configure the required field vital_merchant_currency_code in the Business Center.

Audience
:
Portfolio account users who board or configure transacting merchant accounts for merchants who process transactions through TSYS.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
Contact the support team to configure the vital_merchant_currency_code.

**Legacy Mechant Boarding** \| EPS-32091
----------------------------------------

Description
:
When portfolio merchants uses the legacy merchant boarding system tries to update the merchant information of a transacting merchant using the Merchant File Upload, some fields are updated and others are not.
:
**Updated fields:**

    * merchant name
    * country
    * url

:
**Unchanged fields:**
:
* phone
* addressLine1
* city
* state
* postal code

:
There are no plans to fix the legacy platform. Affected merchants are advised to migrate to the Visa Acceptance Platform, where this error does not occur and the platform is regularly updated.

Audience
:
Merchants who use the legacy boarding platform.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
Contact the support team.

**Payments** \| EPS-32224
-------------------------

Description
:
Merchants who attempt a credit authorization thorugh the SIX platform receieve the error *invalid or missing: cavv*.

Audience
:
Merchants who process credit authorizations through the SIX platform.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
None.

**Invoicing** \| EPS-32398
--------------------------

Description
:
When merchants process invoicing payments through Smartpay and their customer's invoice payment is declined with error *RC 401*, the invoice's status is set to Pending and cannot be canceled.

Audience
:
Merchants who process invoicing payments through Smartpay.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
None.

**Token Management System** \| EPS-32701
----------------------------------------

Description
:
Merchants are unable to retrieve a Payment Instrument token in the Business Center.

Audience
:
Merchants who use the Token Management System.

Technical Details
:
The failed retrieval generates the message *Error: An error occurred retrieving the Payment Instrument*.

Workaround
:
Use the Token Retrieval API.

**REST SDKs** \| EPS-32170
--------------------------

Description
:
In the REST SDK's transaction search, the field embedded.transactionSummaries.processorInformation.eventStatus is missing from the response payload. Merchants require this field to validate the status of their capture and refund transactions.

Audience
:
Merchants performing transaction search using one of the REST SDKs.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
None.

**Token Management Service** \| EPS-32297
-----------------------------------------

Description
:
When you search for a token in the Business Center using a custom date range, the first page of results loads normally. However, clicking any other page will cause a yellow warning banner to appear and the search results are reset to 0.

Audience
:
Users of Token Search in the Business Center.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
Search using a preset date range.

**Webooks** \| EPS-32439
------------------------

Description
:
The webhooks service is sending duplicate notifications for the invoicing.customer.invoice.paid event.

Audience
:
Merchants using webhooks for invoicing.

Technical Details
:
None.

Workaround
:
None.