MERCHANT STRUCTURE HIERARCHIES FOR MEDIATING TRANSACTION DATA ACCESS

摘要

Mediation hierarchies may be established and maintained for use in accessing and managing transaction data. The hierarchies may correspond to merchant organizational structures. The transaction data may include financial transactions, such as payment transactions facilitated by portable consumer devices including credit, debit and charge cards, that are made by customers of the merchant. The hierarchies may be used to mediate reporting, searching and decision management functionality with respect to the transaction data. Users may make requests with respect to transactions associated with one or more portions of a hierarchy. Transaction data access control may be associated with hierarchy nodes. Merchant organizational structures may change over time, and a history may be maintained for each mediation hierarchy. Transaction processing functionality associated with time intervals during which multiple hierarchy versions were active may be processed with respect to the active hierarchy version for each sub-interval.