If you run a business with POS terminals - a retail chain, a string of agent locations, a payments business with terminals in the field, you know the evening ritual. Transactions came in all day. Now you need to know which ones actually settled, which are still pending, and whether the money that hit your account matches what your terminals reported.
This guide does that. We'll build an automated settlement monitor using the Interswitch Transaction Search API; one that takes your terminals, finds the day's transactions, and tells you exactly what settled and what didn't.
On Coverage
Before we write a line of code, you need to know what Transaction Search actually covers, because building on the wrong assumption wastes your time.
Per Interswitch's transaction coverage, here's what's fully supported today:
