Search
68 articles found
Laws & Regulations
Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection aims to protect consumers' health, safety and economic interests, compensate their losses and inform them. It covers all consumer transactions and practices aimed at consumers.
Security
Forgery in card payments means transactions made with card details without the cardholder's knowledge, or purchases with counterfeit or stolen cards. Merchants cannot eliminate fraud and chargeback risk, but they should aim to reduce it to reasonable levels.
Merchant & POS
Almost all of us carry at least one credit card. Imagine losing your wallet with all your cards inside, and someone with bad intentions finding it and using the cards without a PIN. Who bears the responsibility?
Chargeback
A chargeback is when a cardholder asks the issuing bank to refund a transaction made without their knowledge. It cannot be prevented entirely, but simple precautions can minimize the risk. Here is how the process works and what cardholders should do.
Merchant & POS
In payment systems, every exchange between POS devices and bank or payment institution systems runs on a specific messaging standard, generally based on ISO 8583. However, each country, bank, or switch network defines its own version of this standard.
Merchant & POS
Partial authorization lets an issuer approve part of the requested amount when the card lacks the full balance, with the rest paid another way. This post covers the technical, receipt, clearing, reconciliation, merchant and certification requirements for acquirers.
Online & Authorization
OpenAI and Stripe announced the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), with Instant Checkout live on Etsy and Shopify in the US. What this means for payment facilitators and e-commerce platforms, and what may come beyond one-click checkout.
Payment Systems
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) is a next-generation protocol that lets AI agents integrate directly into commercial processes such as payments, orders, refunds and subscriptions. This post explains how it works and what it offers businesses.
Payment Systems
The rules in this guide relate to the processing of Transactions and Payment Transactions made with Mastercard-branded cards. Here are the key definitions and where to find the document.
Payment Systems
The virtual POS merchant panel is where merchants manage documents, reports, notifications, transaction tracking, end-of-day, transactions and user permissions for their virtual POS.
Online & Authorization
In payment systems, the term transaction refers to the operations performed. Each transaction has its own distinct characteristics. For example, a Sale made from a POS differs from a Sale Cancellation or a Cash Withdrawal made from an ATM.
Fraud
Chargeback is the process of refunding a credit card payment when the goods or services that should have been received were not, or when transactions not made by the cardholder are identified. In Turkish it is translated as reversal of presentment.