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Purchasing ProCard Guide

Introduction to Purchasing ProCard Transaction Processing

The Purchasing ProCard system is run by FIRSTCARD Bank in Chicago, interfacing with UCONN to input credit card transactions on a daily basis. The UCC interface consists of an RJE initiated from FIRSTCARD to send the transactions to us, programs to reformat and validate them, and creation of FRS formatted journal entries for input into the FRS nightly batch process.

Communications from UCC to Purchasing using e-mail will indicate that the FIRSTBANK transmission has occured, that transactions processed normally or that validation errors occurred and a re-transmission may be needed. The Purchasing ProCard Administrator is responsible for follow-up if re-transmission is required of FIRSTCARD Bank.

FIRSTCARD may send one or more transmissions on any working day using an RJE run of the UCC job J9556S01. Scheduling using Control-M automatic processing will run job J9556S02 if at least one successful run of J9556S01 occurred during the day. This job will run during week days at 11pm in the evening. If J9556S02 has a successful, run Control-M will then run job J9556M05.

The ProCard cycle consists of these 3 batch jobs:

ProCard Processing Set Up

ProCard has no control cards.