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Archives: Glossary Terms

Shopping Cart

As used on the Internet, a shopping cart is analogous to choosing items in a grocery store and placing them in a shopping cart for

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SSL

All websites that host electronic payments should use a SSL (secure socket layer) certificate. Typically 128 bit is the customary level of security used. Note:

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Upfront Reserve

In this situation, the processor will ask for a reserve upfront, usually based on a % of your applied for monthly volume, and they will

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Rolling Reserve

What is a Rolling Reserve in Payment Processing? A rolling reserve is what some banks use to cover their exposure to risk on accounts that

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Reserve

A common practice in which a cash reserve is established by the processing bank (similar to an escrow account) to protect themselves against catastrophic losses.

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Refund Policy

Written policy regarding exactly how the merchant guarantees products or services sold to a cardholder. Merchant banks require a written refund policy for each applicant,

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Qualified

The “base” discount rate that merchants are charged on Credit card transactions that are either (A) Card-present sales that are swiped through a POS and

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Purchase Cards

Purchase Cards are credit cards for use by employees of government agencies or corporations. What differentiates purchase cards different from regular credit cards is that

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