Are you looking to incorporate Credit Card Processing into your business model? You must be familiar with the complete process flow. Let’s have a look at how it works.
1. Authorization
A cardholder gives you a credit card to make payments.
Being a merchant, your terminal will send a request to the payment processor for payment authorization.
The payment processor will contact the issuing bank using a credit card machine (with CVV, card expiry, and AVS validation) to submit transactions.
The issuing bank sends approved/declined status to the card association and then the merchant bank. In the end, the merchant receives this status.
2. Settlement
Being a merchant, your terminal will send multiple authorized transactions to the payment processor.
The details are transferred to the card association to communicate with issuing banks.
The cardholder will pay transaction charges
3. Funding
Once transaction charges are deducted, the issuing bank will deduct interchange fees and will transfer the desired amount of funds to the merchant bank.
Then, your merchant account will receive funds from the merchant bank.
This is how, in just a few steps, credit card processing improves the way you facilitate your customers/clients.