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Payment Systems
Couriers are used to physically deliver cards (credit, debit, prepaid) to customers. Here is a brief look at the card's life cycle, from application and printing to courier sorting and final delivery.
Credit Card
Data on card payments made online in Türkiye is shared by BKM, updated monthly by number and value of transactions. Here is the link and how to interpret the figures.
Fraud
In payment systems, fraud means using someone else's credit or debit card to carry out a transaction at a merchant or ATM, gaining unfair profit and causing loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. Fraudsters…
Credit Card
Credit cards are undoubtedly the most important payment tool for most of us when shopping. So what stages does a credit card or debit card go through before it reaches our pocket? The customer submits a card application request, and the process continues from there.
Courier & Delivery
Courier companies and banks generally carry out the card distribution process through file exchanges. (Some banks also use web service integration; in that case the information normally sent via file is transmitted within the service.) With the courier...
Credit Card
CNP refers to a transaction made through a website or a company's own app payment page, where the card is not read by any device and its details are entered manually. It is short for Card Not Present.
Merchant & POS
Cardholders may request a refund through the merchant for POS transactions due to wrong deliveries, returned goods and similar reasons. Here is the information a refund receipt must contain, including extra fields for e-commerce.
Chargeback
The chargeback dispute period varies by reason, but it can never exceed 540 days from the date a transaction posted to the card. Within that limit, cardholders generally have up to 120 days to dispute, depending on the type of issue.
Chargeback
Chargeback reason codes vary by card scheme. The Amex chargeback reason codes and their descriptions are listed below: American Express Chargeback Reason Codes A01 The charge you submitted did not receive a valid authorization approval code for the amount...
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.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Law No. 6493 on Payment and Securities Settlement Systems, Payment Services and Electronic Money Institutions defines a payment instrument as a personalized device such as a card, mobile phone, or password.
Laws & Regulations
A payment service means the services offered under Article 12(1) of Law No. 6493. Essentially, it is delivering funds received from a sender to a recipient.