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E-commerce has grown significantly in recent years, and so have negative experiences and concerns about trust. This post summarizes the basic consumer rights under Law No. 4077: the right of withdrawal, cargo delivery rights, defective products and the Consumer Arbitration Committee.
ATM
A cash dispenser is a device that lets customers withdraw money. Although the term is sometimes used as another name for an ATM, the dispenser is actually the unit inside the ATM that dispenses the money loaded into its cassettes.
Payment Institutions & E-Money
Used as an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface, an API is an interface that allows an application's functions to be accessed and used from outside or remotely, letting an application on a server be reached from different platforms.
Security
Before 3D Secure 2.0, let's explain what 3D Secure is. 3D Secure is a two-layer payment authentication system that protects both the cardholder and the merchant in online payments. First released by Visa in 1999, it was later adopted by other card schemes…
Credit Card
A mandatory alphanumeric field, 1-16 characters, sent in tag 50 of EMV transactions, representing a name related to the card application's AID in the ADF.
Merchant & POS
PIN Transaction Security (PTS) verifies that card data and PIN information are used for a payment transaction. It is a set of modular evaluation requirements managed by the PCI Security Standards Council for PIN-accepting terminals.
HSM & Security
Secure Element Issuer is the stakeholder that provides, maintains, and updates the secure element in cases where mobile payment application and card data are stored in the secure element inside a mobile phone.
Online & Authorization
In payment systems, the result of a transaction is sent in the F39 field. The F39 value is the code indicating the transaction's approval or decline status. It is a 2-character alphanumeric code. When approved, the value is usually 00.
ATM
At ATMs, transaction selection and processing are carried out using the buttons on the right and left of the ATM screen. These buttons are called FDK (Function Display Key) buttons. Does every ATM have FDK?
Merchant & POS
BKM TechPOS is an infrastructure through which card acquirers and POS/cash register manufacturers can interoperate via BKM, letting all participating banks provide card acceptance services on a single device.
Merchant & POS
The Secure Mobile Payment System is a system permitted by the Ministry, operated under the Revenue Administration (GIB) Communiqué, for sales, payment and collection transactions and the electronic creation, transmission and retention of the related financial documents.
Payment Systems
In payment systems, the tower is the section inside an ATM where cash is physically stored. It contains cassettes holding different banknote denominations, a mix cassette for mismatched notes, and various security mechanisms protecting the cash.