CPC G06Q 20/401 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/24 (2013.01); G06Q 20/405 (2013.01); G06Q 20/425 (2013.01); G06Q 40/02 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method for payment card account matching based on partial profile data, comprising:
receiving, by a financial institution backend and from a merchant, a subset of digits for a complete account number for a payment instrument for a merchant customer, wherein the merchant customer is also a financial institution customer, the merchant does not store the complete account number for the payment instrument, and a third-party payment processor for the merchant stores the complete account number for the payment instrument;
identifying, by the financial institution backend, a plurality of payment card accounts comprising the subset of digits in a financial institution database;
requesting, by the financial institution backend, the merchant to conduct a test transaction with a first payment card account of the identified plurality of payment card accounts over a payment network, wherein the merchant is configured to request the test transaction from the third-party payment processor and the third-party payment processor is configured to conduct the test transaction using a payment network;
after requesting the merchant to conduct the test transaction, monitoring, by the financial institution backend, a transaction authorization system for the test transaction that involves the first payment card account; and
associating, by the financial institution backend, the payment card account involved in the test transaction as the payment card account associated with the merchant customer.
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