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How Do I Resolve DPS Error When Charging A Client?

Charging a Credit card in is usually easy. but occasionally the property can experience that a Credit card gets an Error message. One of the reason can be an extra character in the Payer Name.


Go to ResPay > Use Booking Number [Enter the booking ID that you wish to charge] > Load

This will then bring up the ResPay Secure Window. This window will bring up the details of the guest on the card and the amount that you can Charge.


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When you get to this screen you will need to be sure of 2 things. As you can see in the screen shot below that there is extra characters in the payer name. Extra characters is the (&). What you will need to do is remove this from the payer name.


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If the is not removed please find that you will get an error.


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When you remove & the transaction should go through Successfully with no troubles or error.


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