Merchant & POS
What Is a Cancellation (Void) and a Refund?
Credit card transactions made via POS sometimes need to be reversed. These are called a cancellation (void) or a refund. What's the difference, and when does each apply?
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Payment Systems
What Are Closed-Loop Payment Systems? The Hidden Side of the Payments World | Closed-Loop Payments #1
The Hidden Side of the Payments World. The words a person working in the payment systems industry hears most over a career are probably Visa, Mastercard, POS, debit card, virtual POS, acquiring and card issuing. Frankly, my own career did not unfold very differently from that journey...
Merchant & POS
What Is Partial Authorization?
Partial Authorization lets an issuer approve part of a transaction instead of declining it when the balance or limit is insufficient. This post covers how it works in ISO 8583, whether it is mandatory, and why it matters for the business.
Payment Systems
What is Batch Delete? What Are the Important Points?
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.
Payment Systems
Visa and Mastercard Branded Cards Will No Longer Work in Russia
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Visa and Mastercard suspended services for sanctioned Russian banks. This post explains the impact on cardholders and merchants, and Russia's MIR and UnionPay alternatives.
Merchant & POS
What are Loyalty Points?
Loyalty points are promotional rewards banks give customers for credit card transactions, tracked on a card/customer basis. Banks charge merchants a commission on POS transactions, and some share part of that commission with cardholders as points.
Merchant & POS
What is Batch Upload?
When a transaction is made through a POS, it is recorded both on the POS itself and in the acquiring bank's authorization system. At batch close, the POS sends all its transactions to the bank, which reconciles them against its own records.
Merchant & POS
Can a Contactless Offline Transaction Occur?
A contactless offline transaction can occur. If the amount is lower than the floor limit defined on the POS and the card also allows offline authorization, the transaction can be completed offline. Offline transactions are periodically sent by the POS to the acquiring bank.
Payment Systems
BRSA Publishes Draft Regulation Amending the Regulation on Debit Cards and Credit Cards
The BRSA has published a draft regulation amending the Regulation on Debit Cards and Credit Cards. It introduces the card scheme definition, a customer right to choose the card scheme, and an obligation for acquirers to define licensed schemes on merchant POS devices.
Merchant & POS
Why Are Issuer Data Definitions Important?
The most important part of issuer data definitions is that they are built around your own bank's or institution's developments and application flows. Missing BINs can break installments, rewards and routing on POS devices.
Merchant & POS
What is BKM TechPOS?
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
MasterCard Is Getting Ready for Voice Shopping
Payment systems once meant a physical card and a PIN on a POS device. Digitalization that began with contactless transactions has accelerated with mobile payments, and MasterCard is now working on voice shopping and Soft POS in Turkey.