The data record specifies the data file structure the credit card transactions must have in order to be processed by credit card clearing.

In the data file, more than one credit card settlement run from one credit card company can be saved. For the system to distinguish the different credit card settlement runs, they must be saved in a fixed structure. The structure of the credit card settlement run controls importing of credit card transactions.

Within this credit card settlement run structure, the data records, which are set up by lines, have to comply with a fixed data structure, so that the system can use them to create credit card documents after assignment of the credit card transactions.

The structure of every credit card settlement run is made up of three data types:

Every credit card settlement run has exactly one such record type, with which it begins. In this record type, globally applicable data for all data records of this credit card settlement run is stored.

Every credit card settlement run has at least one such record type. In this record type, the individual data of each credit card transaction is stored.

Every credit card settlement run has exactly one such record type, with which it ends.