Processing Transactions

If your business accepts credit and debit cards, you must process these transactions correctly to ensure that the card offered for payment is genuine. This section provides useful hints and tips to reduce fraud and details the correct procedures for processing card transactions.

• Fraud free sales - what to do to reduce fraud
• Cardholder present - transactions where the card and cardholder are present at the point of sale
• Cardholder not present - transactions taken by mail order, telephone order or over the Internet
• Specialist - hotel services and bureau de change