Payment Features
You can apply features to different payment services to enhance the customer payment
processing experience. This section includes an overview of these features:
Debit and Prepaid Card Payments
Debit cards are linked to a cardholder's checking account. A merchant who accepts the debit
card can deduct funds directly from the linked cardholder's account.
You can process debit cards using these services:
- Credit card services
- PIN debit services
Related Information
- See Standard Payment Processing for information that shows you how to use credit card services.
- See Debit and Prepaid Card Processing for information that shows you how to process authorizations that use a debit or prepaid card.
Payer Authentication
Payer authentication is run before a transaction is submitted for authorization. Most of
the time payer authentication is bundled with authorization so that after payer
authentication happens, the transaction is automatically submitted for authorization.
Payer authentication and authorization can be configured to occur as separate
operations. This section shows you how to run payer authentication as a separate process
and pass the payer authentication data when seeking authorization for a transaction.
Payer authentication consists of a two-step verification process that adds an extra layer
of fraud protection during the payment process. During transactions, the transaction
device, location, past purchasing habits, and other factors are analyzed for indications
of fraud. This process collects customer data during the transaction from at least two
of these three categories:
- Something you have: A payment card or a payment card number
- Something you know: A password or pin
- Something you are: Facial recognition or fingerprint
Each of these payment card companies has its own payer authentication product:
- Discover: ProtectBuy
- JCB: J/Secure
- Mastercard: Identity Check
- Visa: Visa Secure
Payer authentication can be used to satisfy the Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
requirement of the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). SCA applies to the European
Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom. SCA requires banks to perform additional
checks when customers make payments to confirm their identity.
Related Information
- See the Payer Authentication Developer Guide for more information about payer authentication.
- See Payer Authentication Processing for information about how to process payments with payer authentication.
Introduction to Credentialed Transactions
Credentialed transactions are transactions that involve either storing a customer's
payment credentials for future transactions or using a customer's already stored payment
credentials. When processing a credentialed transaction, you must indicate the type of
credentialed transaction and the reason for the transaction. Credentialed transactions
are also known as
credential-on-file
(COF) transactions.There are several types of credentialed transactions:
- Customer-Initiated Transactions (CITs):Any transaction a customer is actively participating in such as making a card-present payment, completing an online checkout, or by using a stored credential. CIT transactions can store the customer's credentials in your system for future CITs or merchant-initiated transactions.
- Merchant-Initiated Transactions (MITs):Any transaction a merchant initiates without the customer's participation such as an industry practice transaction or a standing instruction transaction.
- Industry Practice Transactions:MITs that are performed as subsequent transactions to a CIT because the initial transaction could not be completed in one transaction. Not every industry practice transaction involves a stored credential. If a stored credential is used only for one transaction, that transaction is not considered a credentialed transaction.
- Standing Instruction Transactions:MITs that are performed to follow agreed-upon instructions from the customer for the provision of goods and services.
Supported Services
These are the supported merchant-initiated services:
- Delayed Authorization
- Installment Transactions
- Mastercard Standing Order Transactions
- Mastercard Subscription Transactions
- No-Show Transactions
- Reauthorization
- Recurring Transactions
- Resubmission
- Unscheduled Credentials-on-File Transactions
The service determines the reason for the credentialed transaction.