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Payment Systems
Let's talk about payment systems, which we have heard more about since the internet entered our lives, and the basic structures behind them. The first credit card in the world was used in America in the 1920s.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
On 7 October 2023, the CBRT amended the Communiqué on Information Systems of Payment and E-Money Institutions and Data Sharing Services of Payment Service Providers, first published on 1 December 2021. Links to the new text, a comparison table and a detailed summary of changes follow.
Payment Systems
Official Gazette No. 32332 dated 07.10.2023 published the amending Regulation and Communiqué covering digital wallets, e-money, share transfers, cloud outsourcing, remote identity verification and card system choice.
Credit Card
The term 'wallet' has many definitions in payments and fintech. In general, it refers to digital wallets (e-wallets) used in e-commerce, popular because they let users securely store payment information and pay easily.
Credit Card
A digital wallet is an electronic wallet where credit, debit, or prepaid cards are registered in one place. Cardholders can securely add, store, update, and delete card details, then pay with a single click.
Merchant & POS
Today, credit cards play an important role in our daily lives. We can carry out almost all of our transactions without carrying cash, using our credit card instead. During a purchase, we hand our card to the cashier and enter our PIN at the POS terminal.
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?
Payment System Institutions
UnionPay Online Payments (UPOP) lets merchants in China, New Zealand, Australia and other countries extend their e-commerce stores to accept UnionPay payments. UnionPay supports over 5 billion cards in more than 140 countries.
Merchant & POS
A PIN pad lets cardholders safely enter their PIN during POS transactions and lets contactless cards be tapped to transfer card data to the POS. Here is how it works.
Merchant & POS
The checkout page is where an online purchase is completed, and cart abandonment is highest there. This post lists design tips: support all cards, limit transition pages, show security cues, allow guest checkout and remove distractions.
Chargeback
Chargeback is inherent to card transactions, so it may be impossible to prevent entirely, but taking precautions keeps the risk to a minimum. Here are the key points merchants should pay attention to in order to reduce chargebacks.
HSM & Security
Non-face-to-face transactions in which the cardholder authorizes the merchant to store card data, and the merchant uses that stored data to carry out the transaction, are called Credential-on-File (CoF) transactions.