Maximum Under Registry entry

Specifies the maximum amount of an underpayment for which the order will still be shipped.

A customer may mail in an order with a cheque made out for an amount less than the cost of the products ordered. As it is not cost effective to mail out a request for more money when the amount owing is small, most Vital Records Offices have a policy on shipping orders for these underpayments. The purpose of this Registry entry is to define the cut off amount for underpayments. If a customer underpays by an amount equal to or less than the Maximum Under value, the order is shipped; if the amount owing is greater than the Maximum Under value, the order is saved with a status of Pending Payment and will not be shipped until the amount owing is paid. This amount is applied to the entire order, not each product in the order.

See Maximum Over Registry entry for the entry corresponding to overpayments.

Usage

This Registry entry is assigned to groups:

KeyGroup
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Default
Key 3 Table
Key 4 epos
Key 5 Maximum Under
Key 6payment type
Value value
GroupDefaultTableeposMaximum Underpayment typevalue

where:

payment type

may be Default (the value applies to all payment types) or may be a particular payment type.

As some Vital Records Offices accept multiple currencies (e.g. $USD and $CAD), this amount can have a value of Default (it applies to all payment types) or it may be specified differently for individual payment types.

value

is a float amount indicating the maximum accepted under payment.

Note: In the absence of this Registry entry, a value of 0.00 is assumed.

Example

This entry specifies that an underpayment of more than five dollars for any payment type will result in a letter being generated requesting more money. An underpayment of less than or equal to five dollars results in the customer receiving their order and the Vital Records Office foregoing the difference:

KeySetting
Key 1 Group
Key 2 Default
Key 3 Table
Key 4 epos
Key 5 Maximum Under
Key 6 Default
Value 5.00