Online & Authorization
What Is Pay by Link?
Pay by link is an innovative financial solution that completes a payment through a link sent over the internet, making it possible to shop and transfer money through channels like WhatsApp and Instagram.
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The First Installment Credit Card and Key Takeaways for Entrepreneurship
Payment systems are changing fast, and new players are emerging. The Advantage Card, the first installment credit card in Turkey and Europe, did not come from a bank, which holds lessons for today's fintech entrepreneurs.
Merchant & POS
What is Address Verification Service (AVS)?
Address Verification Service (AVS) is a fraud prevention system that helps limit fraud and chargebacks when used effectively. It verifies that the address a customer enters matches the cardholder's address on file with the issuer.
Merchant & POS
What Is "Installments at the Cash Price"?
When you buy a product with a credit card, you can pay in a single payment or in installments. Installments at the cash price means paying in installments without any markup over the cash price, which benefits the cardholder.
Merchant & POS
What are Loyalty Points?
Loyalty points are promotional rewards banks give customers for credit card transactions, tracked on a card/customer basis. Banks charge merchants a commission on POS transactions, and some share part of that commission with cardholders as points.
Credit Card
How Should We Interpret the Payment Systems Data for the First Half of 2019?
Payment systems statistics are reported periodically by the Interbank Card Center (BKM), including total card count, total card turnover, and the growth trend of the card world in the period.
Credit Card
What are MasterCard Warning Notice and Visa Card Recovery Bulletin?
The name for a list of problematic cards — lost, stolen, expired, over-limit, counterfeit, or otherwise flagged — published by card companies like Visa and MasterCard. Mastercard calls it the 'MasterCard Warning Notice'.
Merchant & POS
What Is a Card Recovery Bulletin (Card Protection Bulletin)?
A Card Recovery Bulletin is a list of problem cards (lost, stolen, expired, over-limit, counterfeit or otherwise flagged) published by card schemes such as Visa or MasterCard. It shows whether a card number is listed on the date of purchase.
Merchant & POS
What does Onus mean?
In the payment systems glossary, some terms are essential, including Onus. Onus literally means "on us" and refers to cases where the card-issuing bank and the POS/ATM bank are the same, meaning no clearing commission applies.
EMV
What Is an EMV Issuer Script?
An EMV Issuer Script is a system that lets the issuer (the institution that issues the card) update and change the parameters and values on the card chip while it remains in use, reducing fraud over the card's lifetime.
Credit Card
What Is PIN (Personal Identification Number) Try Counter?
The PIN Try Counter is a value stored on the card's chip showing the number of remaining offline PIN attempts. Each incorrect offline PIN entry decreases it by 1, and it resets when the correct PIN is entered.
Merchant & POS
Are POS Terminals Becoming Obsolete?
Today, as credit cards shift from physical to virtual use, a similar move has come from the POS side. We have begun to see mobile phones used as POS devices becoming a serious rival to physical POS terminals.