MeS Card Services

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MeS Card Services

• Customer Handout

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Who What is MeS?

• On April 14, 2006 Sabre announced a new feature
  that will provide travel agents with a new fully
  integrated, competitively priced product for the
  application and settlement of service fees.
• In partnership with Merchant e-Solutions (MeS),
  Sabre Travel Network enables its travel agency
  customers to process different card types through
  a single payment processor.
• Agencies using the feature will experience
• Privacy - No more disclosure of information to
  suppliers on agency's service fees.
• Control - An option to associate the air ticket
  number with the service fee charged on the
  cardholder's statement - a marketplace first.
• Efficiency - Detailed online reporting and credit
  card reconciliation.
• Speed - Users are able to access service fee
  funds up to seven days sooner than competitors.
• Convenience - Multiple card type processing
  through a single payment processor (MeS)
  eliminates the need to maintain several merchant
  agreements to accept credit cards

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About Merchant e-Solutions

• Merchant e-Solutions was founded in 1999 to
  provide technology-based solutions to the
  merchant payment acquiring industry, including
  banks and middle market retailers and to assist
  financial institutions in the delivery and
  management of merchant-related services.

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What does MeS Reconciliation do?

• MeS reconciliation matches the daily deposit
  detail report from MeS with existing transactions
  in Central Command.
• Reconciled transactions are posted paid in the
  accounts payable subledger
• The sum of the transactions imported will
  reconcile to a bank deposit.

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How does it Work?

• The Steps
• The Sabre Backoffice Reconciliation is
  downloaded daily from the MeS website
• The import is accessed from Agresso Travel /
  Financials / MeS Import and Reconcile
• Input the bank chart and posting rules.
• Option to stop process after importing and prior
  to G/L posting.
• The application will find the ticket number in
  the payables and post it paid.
• Any unreconciled transactions are posted to a
  clearing account.
• Bank account reflects the sum of the transactions
  as a deposit which can be reconciled to the bank
  statement.

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What are the Requirements?

• The MeS vendor must be set up to create
  payables
• File must be downloaded from the MeS website
  daily.

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The Specifics

• This server process imports a file from Merchant
  E-Solutions to the General Ledger, reconciles
  items to existing transactions and applies each
  amount to an open payable.
• Your agency must have access to the MES web site
  in order to download the correct file and a new
  file must be obtained each day in order to keep
  current with daily bank deposits.
• Once the file is downloaded, your agency must
  move the file to Agresso Import folder. The file
  content is imported by the process to
  acrbatchinput.
• During the MES Import/Reconcile, reconciliation
  is also made between the Transaction ID number
  and the Ticket Number in CentralCommand. Items
  that match are posted to Accounts payable as
  payments. The sum of the transactions imported,
  represent the electronic funds transfer to your
  bank.

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More Specifics

• A default clearing account, as defined in the
  Chart of Accounts, must be identified for
  transactions that do not reconcile.
• The Account Rule attached to the clearing account
  should not have any posting rules associated with
  it that do not provide default values.
• Non-reconciled items are posted to this clearing
  account. When a transaction is moved to this
  account, you will need to identify the cause and
  then transfer the transaction to the proper
  account.
• A Transaction Series and Transaction Type to
  facilitate automatic assignment of invoice
  numbers. A separate Transaction Type should be
  created for MES postings.
• The default for parameter for the Transaction
  type has been set to XP. The Treatment Code for
  the Transaction Type should be blank for Batch
  Input Processing. The transaction series GL can
  be used if desired.

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Question Answer

• Q How is this different than what is offered
  today?
• A No automated import process currently offered.
• Q What happens if I dont download the file
  daily?
• A As long as the import file contains daily
  detail, it can be downloaded at any time.
• Q If the file is corrupted, can I download it
  again?
• A Yes