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Mastercard Transaction Link ID Rule Reaches Recurring Charges October 23, Not December 1

Stripe, Checkout.com, and Worldpay documentation puts Mastercard's requirement that recurring and other merchant-initiated charges carry the original Transaction Link Identifier on October 23, 2026. The December 1, 2026 and January 31, 2027 dates now circulating match Worldpay's schedule for lifecycle linking, and Authorize.Net and NMI have not published TLID guidance.

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Authorize.Net October 17 Maintenance Can Run Transactions Without Fraud Filters for Up to an Hour

Authorize.Net's production maintenance on Saturday, October 17, 2026, starts at 9:00 PM Pacific (midnight Eastern) and, per its notice, AFDS transactions will process as if fraud filters are not enabled while CIM, ARB, voids, refunds, and hosted checkout CAPTCHA may be intermittently unavailable.

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