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Chargeback
A chargeback is when cardholders dispute a transaction made without their knowledge through their card-issuing bank. So what does a Retrieval Request mean? It is essentially a document request related to transactions a cardholder does not recognize on their statement.
Credit Card
A combo card is a next-generation card that combines both a credit card and a debit card on a single card. Although designs vary visually, the front typically carries the credit card information and the back the debit card information.
Online & Authorization
In payment systems, the term transaction refers to the operations performed. Each transaction has its own distinct characteristics. For example, a Sale made from a POS differs from a Sale Cancellation or a Cash Withdrawal made from an ATM.
Online & Authorization
A contactless transaction is a fast, secure payment made without direct contact between the card and the POS terminal (without reading the chip or magnetic stripe). Can every card be used for contactless payments? For a transaction to be contactless…
Credit Card
Track 1 is a special data set encoded on a card's magnetic stripe that contains the card information required for authorization when the card is used physically. It includes the cardholder name, card number, and expiration date.
Merchant & POS
When a chip can't be read due to a chip fault or the card being inserted incorrectly, the transaction is completed by swiping the magnetic stripe on the right side of the POS. Can chipless cards do fallback?
Contactless
Updated info: this article describes the limit at the time it was published. For the current contactless (PIN-free) transaction limit, see the linked article. A 1,000 TL contactless transaction is technically possible, but banks won't take that risk.
Payment Systems
TCR stands for Transaction Record Component, the packets that carry transaction information in a clearing system. Transaction types in a clearing file are distinguished by transaction code and usage code values, and this data is sent inside TCR packets.
ISO 8583
DE 13 — Date, Local Transaction: the date on which the transaction took place at the point of transaction (ATM, POS). It is 4 digits in MMDD format.
Payment Systems
Regularly reporting and tracking how many transactions fail at each merchant matters for both the merchant and the acquirer. BKM error codes tell us why POS transactions fail.
Fraud
According to the Banks Association of Turkey, a fictitious transaction is a collusive transaction made by misusing POS devices, debit cards, or credit cards. Banks that detect such transactions through merchants report them to the Banks Association of Turkey.
Merchant & POS
Yes. Whether a contactless transaction goes online depends on the limits on the card and the POS: the contactless floor limit, the CVM limit and the contactless transaction limit. A worked example shows how.