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Introduction to the BIN Lookup Service
The BIN Lookup Service provides payment card account information based on a
bank
identification number
(BIN) and account range information. The BIN represents
the first six or eight digits on the payment card. The first digit of the BIN is the
industry identifier for the network used by the card-issuing institution. The remaining
five or seven digits of the BIN identify the card-issuing institution and some of the
card attributes.You can request the BIN Lookup Service using a payment card number (PAN), BIN, network
token, Token Management Service (TMS) token, or
Secure Acceptance
transient token. For more information about TMS, see the Token Management Service API
reference
or the
Token Management Services Developer
Guide
.For more information about .
Secure Acceptance
transient tokens, see the Digital Accept
Secure Integration Developer
GuideBIN lookup service returns BIN attribute information for the payment
credential specified in the request, such as:
- Card type code
- Card brand, such as American Express, Mastercard, or Visa
- Card currency
- Account funding source, such as credit or debit
- Account prefix
- Payment credential type
- Issuer BIN length (network dependent)
- Issuer name
- Issuer country
- Issuer phone number
- Fast funds eligibility (if enabled)