- Introduction to Payments
- Standard Payment Processing
- Card Present Connect | Retail Processing
- Card Present Connect | Mass Transit Processing
- American Express Delayed Online Authorization with EMV Data
- Tap-Initiated Authorization for Debt Recovery with EMV Data
- Debit and Prepaid Card Processing
- Processing Debit and Prepaid Authorizations
- Airline Data Processing
- Japanese Payment Options Processing
- Processing Payments Using Credentials
- Customer-Initiated Transactions with Credentials on File
- Delayed Transaction
- Incremental Transaction
- Merchant-Initiated Incremental Transaction with PAN
- No-Show Transactions
- Reauthorization Transaction
- Merchant-Initiated Reauthorization Transactions with PAN
- Resubmission Transaction
- Merchant-Initiated Resubmission Transaction with PAN
- Installment Payments
- Merchant-Initiated Installment Payments with PAN
- Recurring Payments
- Merchant-Initiated Recurring Payments with PAN
- Unscheduled COF Payments
- Token Management Service Processing
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Merchant Financial Institutions (Acquirers)
A merchant financial institution, also known as an
acquirer
, offers accounts to
businesses that accept payment cards. Before you can accept payments, you must have a merchant
account from an acquirer. Your merchant account must be configured to process
card-not-present, card-present, or mail-order/telephone-order (MOTO) transactions.If excessive chargebacks or fraudulant changes occur, these actions might be taken:
- You might be required to change your business processes to reduce the number chargebacks, fraud, or both.
- Your acquiring institution might increase your discount rate.
- Your acquiring institution might revoke your merchant account.
Contact your sales representative for information about products that can help prevent
fraud.