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Merchant & POS
Cashback is a modern POS terminal service that allows cash to be withdrawn from the merchant's till while paying for goods and services. Although cashback is a feature specific to debit cards, you can also withdraw cash from an ATM...
Credit Card
The effect of credit cards on inflation has been debated for years. Because I am asked about it so often, I ran a poll on arifunal.com to gather readers' views. This post weighs the positive and negative effects and compares the poll with the research findings.
Merchant & POS
Banks check merchants against a termination list before issuing a POS device. Learn the main reasons, such as counterfeit card acceptance, excessive chargebacks, and fraud, that can lead a bank to terminate a merchant agreement.
Credit Card
The service code is information printed on a card's Track 1 and Track 2 data, covering card type, PIN usage, and domestic/international usage status. It is kept at the product level in bank systems.
Security
A CP transaction refers to a card transaction in which the card and cardholder are physically present at the location. Card Present transactions occur when the card's magnetic stripe or chip data is read by a POS terminal or ATM, or via contactless.
Merchant & POS
The digital form of Point of Sale (POS) systems is called Digital POS. There is also a software-only subtype called Virtual POS. After Mobile POS (mPOS) and Virtual POS usage became widespread, the term digital POS came to refer to these two products.
Credit Card
An installment is when a credit card transaction is split into a fixed number of monthly payments to the bank. For example, splitting a 100 TL purchase into 5 installments means paying the bank 20 TL per month until the full amount is paid off.
E-commerce
A marketplace solution is a service offered by software that enables communication and data exchange between different marketplaces. It is a multi-vendor online shopping infrastructure, including the payment system, for listing, searching and buying products and services.
Laws & Regulations
Law No. 6502 on Consumer Protection aims to protect consumers' health, safety and economic interests, compensate their losses and inform them. It covers all consumer transactions and practices aimed at consumers.
Merchant & POS
From simplified-method taxpayers to companies keeping balance sheet books, a wide range of taxpayer groups can benefit from the Secure Mobile Payment System. Here is the list and the businesses it suits.
Merchant & POS
When you buy a product with a credit card, you can pay in a single payment or in installments. Installments at the cash price means paying in installments without any markup over the cash price, which benefits the cardholder.
Merchant & POS
In EMV-based debit card transactions, PIN verification is decisive for both security and liability. What happens when a card that only supports online PIN is sent to the issuer without a PIN, and the issuer approves it? Who owns the risk?