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Merchant & POS
In-house is a term widely used in the world of payment systems. It means that payment systems applications are managed end-to-end within the bank's own systems, both in terms of code and process.
HCE
Tokenization generates secure data from a credit card number, using specific algorithms, for use during authorization. In CNP transactions, it removes the risk of storing or compromising the original card number.
Payment Systems
No. Besides the POS and the host, permissions can also be kept in the issuer data. This lets banks, for example, allow installments only for a brand's BINs, or allow mail order for credit cards but not debit cards.
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?
Credit Card
Credit cards can be a convenient way to manage income and expenses, but for those who don't know how to use them, they can become an expensive and risky product. Here are the key pros and cons to weigh before applying for one.
Merchant & POS
In chip transactions made with a credit card via POS, the transaction amount is approved by the card and POS based on parameters on the card and POS, without going to the card bank or POS bank. These are called offline transactions.
Merchant & POS
Checking whether the transaction receipt is printed after a POS transaction, and verifying the amount on it, has probably become a habit for all of us. So what about contactless transactions?
Payment Systems
According to the Banks Association of Turkey, collusive transactions that misuse POS devices, debit cards, or credit cards for purposes other than their intended use are called fictitious transactions - in short, transactions used outside their intended purpose.
Chargeback
A chargeback is a dispute raised against a card transaction when the cardholder did not make it or does not recall it. The dispute types vary depending on the situation; let's look at them.
Payment Systems
In POS applications and on the merchant side, we use the term Batch in a similar way to end of day. Every transaction made via POS is held under a batch number reported to the HOST at end of day.
Chargeback
Compliance means adherence to card scheme rules. Outside chargebacks, it is how a bank that loses money because card payment organization rules were broken recovers that amount from the party that caused the loss.
Merchant & POS
Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) is a mobile payment technology in which devices such as smartphones emit a signal that mimics the magnetic stripe on a traditional payment card, letting a physical card's POS use be imitated without upgrading terminal software or hardware.