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MDE-4313 CFN Series CFN III Manager’s Manual for Windows NT · July 2004 Page Glossary-1
Glossary
34 – Glossary
^ Indicates that you are to hold down the CONTROL key while pressing
and releasing another specified key.
↵
Indicates that you are to press the RETURN key.
ACCOUNT NUMBER Account number in CFN documentation refers to the entire customer-
information field of a proprietary card or the account-number field of a
bank card.
For proprietary cards, the account-number field is usually divided into
subfields that may include a card number, vehicle number, employee
number, customer account number, or other fields.
Although it may seem confusing to call the entire field the account
number when it can contain a subfield called account number, this
terminology conforms with the Track II Standard as defined by the
American Banking Association.
See also
CARD NUMBER .
ACCOUNT NUMBER
LOCKOUT See LIMITED LOCKOUT .
ACTIVATE A pump must be activated before a customer can pump fuel. A console
user can active a pump by selecting the pump with the pump number
key, accepting payment (for prepaid sales only), and pressing the START
key. A customer can activate a pump from the island card reader by
entering a valid card and keying in the required information, including the
pump number. The Site Controller command ACTIVATE PUMP also
activates a pump for one transaction. A pump in full-serve mode is
always active.
ACTIVATE is also used to activate a gate using the command
ACTIVATE GATE.
ALLOCATION, FUEL Quantities or dollar amounts of fuel can be allocated to totalizers for each
allocation number. When a card with an allocation number pumps fuel,
the totalizer for that allocation number is decremented. When the
totalizer is zero, cards with that allocation number cannot access fuel.
ALPHANUMERIC Consisting of characters of the alphabet and numbers. An alphanumeric
display can display letters and numbers, and usually other characters
such as punctuation.
APPLICATION A computer program designed to solve a specific problem. PC Site
control is an application program.
ASCII Pronounced askee. An acronym for American Standard Code for
Information Interchange. A standard 8-bit code used by the CFN System
and many other computers. An ASCII character is a character encoded
in ASCII. An ASCII file is a file made of ASCII characters.
APPROVED A transaction is approved when the customer’s card has been
authorized for use at that site (if it is a prepaid card sale), a pump has
been reserved, and all other conditions have been met so pumping can
start.
AUTHORIZATION Authorization refers to bank or club-card transactions. The steps
required for card authorization depend on the type of card used and the
system configuration. Authorization may include checking the local
lockout file, the card expiration date, and the customer’s PIN, and getting
approval from a bank network.