• 29/10/2026
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Setting up a Mastercard transaction feed to Expense Management

For your Mastercard transactions to import directly into Expense Management:

  1. Ask your bank to use this guide to set up a transaction feed to Continia Expense Management.
  2. Request that the Banking Relationship Manager send your CDF feed directly to Continia Software in the Mastercard SmartData Portal.

Note

While Continia strives to ensure this guide is up to date, this process is external to Continia, so there is a chance that sometimes it may not be.

Guide for the Banking Relationship Manager

To set up a Mastercard transaction feed to Expense Management on behalf of the user's organization, you need to open the Mastercard SmartData Portal and work through the following areas:

Format

  1. Click the Format tab.
  2. From the Vendor Name dropdown menu, choose Continia Software.
  3. From the Application Name dropdown menu, choose Continia Expense Management.
  4. Click Save.

Frequency

  1. Click the Frequency tab.
  2. From the Frequency to Send File dropdown menu, chose On Receipt.
  3. Click No for setting an expiration date for the file delivery.
  4. Click Save.

Record Selection

  1. Click the Record Selection tab.
  2. Under Define Content Criteria, only select the checkboxes for the following:
    • Financial Data
    • Include Merchant Transactions
    • Include Addenda
    • Include Adjustments
    • Include Authorization Declines
    • Hierarchy
    • Include Maintenance Only Hierarchy
  3. Click Save.

Filtering

  1. Click the Filtering tab.
  2. Click No.
  3. Click Save.

Masking

  1. Click the Masking tab.

  2. Select whether or not data , such as credit card IDs, should be masked.

    Note

    If the user's organization chooses to mask credit card IDs, make sure all credit card IDs used in the organization are unique when masked.

  3. Click Save.

Notifications

  1. Click the Notifications tab.
  2. Select No.
  3. Click Save.

Data Initialization

  1. Click the Data Initialization tab.
  2. For the question, Would you like to receive a one-time system initialization data file?, click Yes.
  3. For the question, Would you like to include hierarchy records?, click Yes.
  4. Select the Active Hierarchy Records checkbox.
  5. For the question, Would you like to include historical financial records?,
    • If you want to include historical data click Yes, then specify the date of the earliest transactions you'd like to include.
    • If you do not want to include historical data click No.
  6. Click Save.

Next steps

After the Banking Relationship Manager has worked through the above guide, your bank then initiates delivery of the feed by finding Continia Software in Mastercard's SmartData Portal.

Next, the bank sends you an email containing the file delivery ID (for example G0123456). This is your confirmation that the setup has been completed.

Now you're ready to set up a bank agreement in Expense Management to receive Mastercard transactions automatically. For information on how to do this, see Activating card agreements.

Importing Mastercard transactions