References & descriptions

Collect

The description field for a Collect request must satisfy the following requirements:

• No more than 18 characters in length (only the first 9 will be visible to the payer)
• May only include the following character set:
  • Letters: A-Z, a-z
  • Numbers: 0-9
• May only include the following special characters:
  • spaces ( ) ,
  • ampersands (&),
  • apostrophes (‘),
  • commas (,) ,
  • hyphens (-),
  • full stops (.),
  • forward slashes (/),
  • plus sign (+),
  • dollar sign ($),
  • exclamation mark (!),
  • percentage sign (%),
  • left parenthesis ((),
  • right parenthesis ()),
  • asterisk (*),
  • number sign (#),
  • equal sign (=),
  • colon (:),
  • question mark (?),
  • left square bracket ([),
  • right square bracket (]),
  • underscore (_),
  • circumflex (^), and
  • at symbol (@)

If the description field does not meet these requirements, the following modifications will be made:

• More than 18 characters: will be trimmed to take only the first 18 characters
• Characters other than the allowed character set (above): will be replaced with spaces

Examples