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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…
Security
Credit cards are one of the most important payment instruments in daily life. As technology advances and mobile payments and ATMs handle nearly all transactions, credit card fraud is also diversifying and increasing.
Merchant & POS
A Collection POS is a secure, web-based payment platform through which businesses and institutions manage their collections and generate the reports they need. Many similar products exist on the market under different names.
Chargeback
A no-show fee is the one-night/one-day charge collected by merchants for hotel reservations and car rental bookings that were made but not used, and not canceled when they should have been. It means an unused and uncanceled reservation.
Credit Card
As credit card use grows, so does the importance of raising your limit to keep pace with inflation. Learn how periodic limit increases work, who qualifies, and the legal caps that apply.
HCE
A tokenized card number replaces a physical card number so transactions can be carried out securely. It is generated by the TSP (Token Service Provider), used by the cardholder or merchant, and travels across the payment systems network.
ISO 8583
F37 - RETRIEVAL REFERENCE NUMBER: a 12-digit alphanumeric value generated by the Acquirer that initiates the transaction. It must be printed on the POS receipt or ATM slip. RRN is the reference number that allows a transaction to be located.
ISO 8583
F90 - ORIGINAL DATA ELEMENTS: the data elements from an original message, designed to identify the transaction in correction or reversal transactions. Subfields: Original MTI, Original DE 11 (STAN), Original DE 7, Original DE 32, Original DE 33.
Online & Authorization
A reference guide to authorization response codes seen on POS and ATM transactions, with plain-language explanations of what each code means and what to do about it.
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.
Payment Systems
Soft POS is a POS application that lets merchants accept payments from contactless cards or mobile wallets on Android devices, without needing a physical terminal. Companies market it under various names such as pocket POS or mobile POS.
Payment Systems
In card payment transactions made via a physical POS device, entering the card's PIN keeps the transaction secure, while in virtual POS transactions, security is provided through the 3D Secure flow. Are 3D Secure payment methods standardized? There are 3 different 3D Secure models.