[Dataloss] Best Western Response

[DAIL, WILLARD A]

	-----Original Message-----
	From: DAIL, WILLARD A
	Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:02 PM
	To: dataloss at attrition.org
	Subject: RE: [Dataloss] Best Western Response


	Good point.  The hospitality industry is one where franchisees
or local owners participate in branding, so any given location may or
may not be company owned.
	
	

		-----Original Message-----
		From: dataloss-bounces at attrition.org
[mailto:dataloss-bounces at attrition.org] On Behalf Of JAMES RITCHIE
		Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:41 PM
		To: Harris, Michael C.; dataloss at attrition.org
		Cc: macwheel99 at wowway.com
		Subject: Re: [Dataloss] Best Western Response
	
	
		Loophole that is found.
	
		If each local hotel gains their own merchant ID,
processes the transaction through a payment gateway that is not the
corporate headquarters, then their level will be determined on that
merchant ID, not the aggregate of all the hotels.
	
		If each hotel processes through corporate headquarters
(now becomes the gateway) to the payment gateway, then the aggregate of
all hotels would be combined into one.
	
		I have seen where each location was forced to get their
own merchant ID and payment gateway to keep the transactions down, thus
keeping the cost of audits down.
	
		
		James Ritchie
		http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/b89/433
	
		



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