A few weeks back Andy Orrock gave me a crash course in the concepts of the ISO-8583 packager and how interacts with a prepaid authorization host. With a few cartoon like drawings on the whiteboard and it all made sense.
The exercise made me think about the dynamics in play from an business development and account management perspective. Messages go back and forth. Some good, some bad. Messages typically need to be translated, parsed and presented in an understandable and acceptable format.
Some entertaining thoughts (to me at least)
- Message in = customer yells
- Unpackage/Translate = tactfully pass the message along to team
- Message processed = team yells then settles down
- Message out = tactfully pass message back to customer
- Transaction completed = everyone is happy
Not an accurate comparison to an actual payment systems transaction by any means… but the thought made me smile.
I am a packager.
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