Merchant Advice Code

The Merchant Advice Code (MAC) can be returned for both approved and refused Mastercard payments. The following table contains the detailed code information.

Code

Description

01

New account information available

02

Cannot approve at this time, try again later

03

Do not try again

04

Token not supported

21

Stop recurring payment

24

Retry after 1 hour

25

Retry after 24 hours

26

Retry after 2 days

27

Retry after 4 days

28

Retry after 6 days

29

Retry after 8 days

30

Retry after 10 days

40

Consumer non-reloadable prepaid card

41

Consumer single-use virtual card number

43

Consumer multi-use virtual card number