Issuing merchant categories

Every business that processes card payments is categorized using Merchant Category Codes (MCC). The category name is provided as a value for merchant_data.category on Authorization objects. Some businesses may not fit into a specific category, in which case they’re categorized as miscellaneous.

You can use these categories when creating spending controls to restrict issued cards from being used with certain business types.

You can also use enriched merchant data to set more granular controls.