Managing Debit Cards

Overview The Cards tab in the Synctera Console supports the ability to issue and manage cards. Features Card Issuance: This section covers the features and functionality related to card issuance, re-issuance and replacement Card Activation: T…

Card Interchange

Overview of interchange on card transactions

Mastercard Passthrough Fees

Overview Mastercard bills the payment card issuer (i.e. your BIN sponsor bank) for different fees related to their products and services As the owner of the card program, you are responsible for any per transaction usage fees, which are based …

Controls for cross-border card transactions

Overview Feature summary Synctera has enabled controls for cross-border card transactions A cross-border transaction is a transaction where the merchant’s country code is different from the country code of the card BIN Cross-bord…

Issuer 3-Domain Secure (3DS) Card Authentication

Issuer 3DS card authentication

Address Verification Service (AVS)

Overview What is AVS and how does it work? Address Verification Service (AVS) is a method provided by issuers to help merchants detect potential card transaction fraud, especially for card-not-present (CNP) transactions (for example, online transa…

Card Shipping Overview

What shipping methods are available for a physical card? Individual card shipping When a physical card is ordered, the user can select between the options listed below. *The average charges are based on individual card shipping (not bulk) …

Handling Returned Mail

Returned Mail FinTechs that are preparing to launch debit card programs will need to decide how to handle returned mail. Synctera recommends beginning with having Arroweye, the card manufacturer, track and destroy any retur…

Level 2 / Level 3 Data

Overview What is Level 2 / Level 3 Data? Level 1/Level 2/Level 3 (L1/L2/L3) represents the levels of data provided on a payment card transaction - the higher the number, the more information is provided about the transaction. All transactions inc…