Mastercard MATCHr

My first ever project in Ruby on Rails was as part of an emerging developer program through my job at Braintree. I wanted to create something with future use cases which could be scaled as needed. I eventually decided to make a manual search form for Mastercard's MATCH database.

The Mastercard Alert to Control High-risk Merchants (MATCH) allows an acquiring partner to lookup whether another acquiring partner has terminated a merchant in the past and the reason for that termination, to aid in an onboarding decision. This will provide acquirers with the opportunity to develop and review enhanced or incremental risk information before entering into a merchant agreement.

The original MATCHr also queried the OFAC databas but I left that part out of this one. I may add it back in when I transition to AWS or if I end up deciding to pay for Heroku's database. 🤪 Please note that the results of this search are Sandbox only and do not represent actual people or actual entries in the MATCH database. And please do not enter any data pertaining to real humans into the form when testing.

So, without futher ado, here is MATCHr.