Personal name parameters
By default, the name parameters (firstName, middleName, lastName) accept only letters (including International characters, when enabled), spaces, single quotes, and hyphens.
Note
The name parameters for ACH accounts follow the rules in ACH name parameters.
To support an extended character set for the name parameters, the CNSCR provider parameter must be set.
Extended character set
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
. | Period |
, | Comma |
? | Question mark |
@ | At sign |
& | Ampersand |
! | Bang (exclamation point) |
# | Hash sign |
~ | Tilde (standalone) |
* | Asterisk |
; | Semicolon |
+ | Plus sign |
0-9 | Numerals |
ACH name parameters
To conform with Nacha file conventions, the name parameters for Add ACH Account (name, firstName, lastName) and Add ACH Account Corporate (name, companyName) accept these characters only. International characters with diacritics (accents, umlauts) are not supported.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
A–Z, a–z | Letters |
0–9 | Numbers |
| Space | |
- | Hyphen |
' | Single quote |
" | Double quote |
. | Period |
, | Comma |
? | Question mark |
# | Hash sign |
~ | Tilde (standalone) |
* | Asterisk |
+ | Plus sign |
@ | At sign |
! | Exclamation point |
( ) | Parentheses |
_ | Underscore |
; | Semicolon |
’ | Apostrophe |
& | Ampersand must be URL-encoded: %26 |
$ | Dollar sign |
% | Percent sign |
^ | Caret |
= | Equals sign |
[ ] | Square brackets |
{ } | Curly brackets |
: | Colon |
< > | Angle brackets |
| | | Pipe |
/ \ | Forward and back slashes |
businessName parameter
businessName parameterThe businessName parameter supports these characters as well as the International characters, when enabled.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| A-Z, a-z | Letters |
| 0-9 | Numbers |
| Spaces | |
- | Hyphen |
' | Single quote |
. | Period |
, | Comma |
? | Question mark |
# | Hash sign |
~ | Tilde (standalone) |
* | Asterisk |
+ | Plus sign |
@ | At sign |
! | Exclamation point |
( ) | Parentheses |
_ | Underscore |
; | Semicolon |
’ | Closing single curly quote |
& | Ampersand must be URL-encoded: %26 |
Address characters
The addressX parameters (1–5) support this character set as well as the International characters.
| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| A–Z, a–z | Letters |
| 0–9 | Numbers |
| Spaces | |
- | Hyphen |
' | Single quote |
" | Double quote |
. | Period |
, | Comma |
_ | Underscore |
| ` | Back tick |
? | Question mark |
! | Bang (exclamation point) |
@ | At sign |
$ | Dollar sign |
% | Percent sign |
# | Hash sign |
= | Equals sign |
~ | Tilde (standalone) |
/ | Slash |
\ | Backslash |
| | | Pipe |
International characters
International characters are Latin letters with diacritics such as accent marks, umlauts, and tildes. To use this character set, contact Galileo to enable it.
The Latin-9 ISO-8859-15 character set includes these characters:
á, é, í, ó, ú, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú
à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û
ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, Õ
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü, Ÿ
å, Å
ø, Ø
æ, Æ, œ, Œ, ß
ç, Ç
š, ž, Š, Ž
þ, ð, Þ, Ð
The following parameters support the Latin-9 character set (ISO-8859-15). These parameters are found in multiple endpoints:
Name parameters
firstName, middleName, lastName, businessName, merchantName, (location) name, beneficiaryFirstName, beneficiaryLastName, billerName, storeName, businessLegalName, doingBusinessAs, primaryContactName
Address parameters
address1, address2, address3, address4, address5, shipToAddress1, shipToAddress2, billerAddress1, billerAddress2, storeAddress1, storeAddress2, city, shipToCity, billerCity, storeCity
Other parameters
message, senderMessage