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Credit Card
Business customers can be issued an ATM card, known as a Business Debit Card. The cardholder must be the person authorized to act legally on behalf of the company, since the card operates on company accounts.
Payment Systems
This Guide links business models frequently encountered in the payments field to the payment services listed in Law No. 6493 on Payment and Securities Settlement Systems, Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions, and aims at uniformity in practice.
Merchant & POS
A Z Report is a report taken at the end of the business day, bearing a sequential number, that gives detailed information about sales made using a cash register during a business day, the revenue earned, and the VAT collected.
FAST
Until the FAST system was introduced, money transfers were made through the EFT structure. Due to evolving technology and changing customer expectations, a new structure called FAST was introduced. So what are the differences between EFT and FAST?
Merchant & POS
In the first post I explained what closed-loop payment systems are and how they differ from open-loop ones. Many of the replies I received boiled down to one question: how do these systems actually work behind the scenes once a QR code is scanned?
Debit Card
A debit-featured card issued to a sole proprietorship, a commercial company, or a foundation/association is called a commercial debit card. Operationally, it is no different from a personal debit (ATM) card. It has its own limit, status, and user.
Laws & Regulations
A payment institution is a legal entity that provides payment services for electronic payments through the infrastructure it offers. This article covers the Turkish regulatory framework, licensing, safeguarding, supervision, penalties and taxation.
Credit Card
A prepaid card is a customized card, with or without a chip, not linked to a bank account and without a credit limit like credit cards, letting you spend only the amount loaded onto it.
Payment Systems
New-generation payment recording devices (ÖKC) now play an important role for businesses and sole proprietors. The Revenue Administration's site covers both the legislation and usage details.
Merchant & POS
For a POS device to be issued to a customer, the customer must have a legal entity status, such as a sole proprietorship, commercial company, or foundation/association. POS devices cannot legally be issued to individual customers.
Payment Systems
Open banking opens financial data, under the regulations and with the customer's explicit consent, to third-party service providers through standard APIs. The CBRT has published a guide on payment initiation and account information services, covering licensing and technical certification.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
A company that collects online payments through its own virtual POS and pays merchants on agreed dates is providing a payment service, and it needs a license from the Board unless an exemption applies.