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Credit card installment payment illustration

Credit Card

What Is Installment Payment?

Installment payment means dividing a product's price into a set number of equal amounts. For example, if a 100 TL product is bought in 5 installments, the cardholder pays 20 TL a month for 5 months, totaling 100 TL.

Smartphone being used as a mobile POS device for a card payment

Merchant & POS

Mobile Phones Are Turning Into POS Devices

With advances in technology, mobile phones can now be used for many functions besides calls and internet access. One such innovation is the ability to use smartphones or tablets as POS devices.

Diagram illustrating how a POS terminal's floor limit determines offline transaction approval

Merchant & POS

What Is a Floor Limit?

The floor limit is the value held on the POS that determines the maximum amount for which an offline transaction can be approved. It is managed per terminal and can be updated at any time through the POS parameter management system.

Screenshot of an Address Verification Service (AVS) response code table

Merchant & POS

What is Address Verification Service (AVS)?

Address Verification Service (AVS) is a fraud prevention system that helps limit fraud and chargebacks when used effectively. It verifies that the address a customer enters matches the cardholder's address on file with the issuer.

Diagram of a partial authorization where an issuer approves only part of the requested amount

Merchant & POS

What Are the Partial Authorization Requirements for an Acquirer Bank?

Partial authorization lets an issuer approve part of the requested amount when the card lacks the full balance, with the rest paid another way. This post covers the technical, receipt, clearing, reconciliation, merchant and certification requirements for acquirers.

Diagram showing the CAT (Cardholder Activated Terminal) Indicator field used in payment authorization messages

Merchant & POS

What is the CAT (Cardholder Activated Terminal) Indicator?

CAT (Cardholder Activated Terminal) devices are typically unattended terminals that accept various payment cards. These terminals are frequently installed at railway ticket stations, gas stations, toll roads, parking lots, and other commercial locations.

Illustration of ISO 8583 message field layout used for field F37

ISO 8583

ISO 8583 Field Descriptions (F37)

F37-RETRIEVAL REFERENCE NUMBER is a code generated by the bank that initiates a transaction, used to uniquely track it. It is a 12-character alphanumeric value.

TR QR Code supported payment devices

Payment Systems

Which Devices Can I Pay From With the TR QR Code?

According to BKM's TR QR Code Technical Principles and Rules Guide for card payments, QR code payment structures apply to EFTPOS, shared EFTPOS, ÖKC, ATMs, payment provider apps, static QR codes and virtual POS.

ATM machine with card reader, keypad and screen

ATM

15 Interesting Facts About ATMs

Although we can now carry out almost all branch transactions at an ATM, for most of us an ATM is still just a machine for depositing and withdrawing cash. Today, without a card, we can use our phones to deposit and withdraw cash via QR code.

Table of Visa and Mastercard fraud codes and descriptions

Security

What Are the Visa and Mastercard Fraud Codes?

Fraud means obtaining unjust gain by carrying out a transaction at a merchant or ATM using someone else's credit card or debit card, causing a loss to the real cardholder, the merchant, or the bank. So what fraud codes do Visa and Mastercard use?

ISO 8583 F124 field structure and subfield breakdown

ISO 8583

ISO 8583 Field Descriptions (F124)

F124 (Private Additional Data) contains additional information specific to the transaction, such as Card Update Failure Code and Status, cardholder name in money transfers, and keys in network management messages.