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Card Payment

No two businesses are alike, but all of them need to accept payments. With Wirecard ePOS solution, companies of all sizes can accept and process card payments anywhere ― quickly, securely, and profitably.

Tip

Visit Wirecard website to find out all benefits of accepting card payments.

Transaction Types

Wirecard ePOS supports following transaction types:

  • Purchase - takes funds from the cardholder's account. It is one-step process to conduct two transaction types: Authorization and Capture.
  • Authorization & Capture - Authorization reserves funds from the cardholder's account. Merchant has 7 days left to conduct Capture on the Authorization transaction.
  • Reversal - releases reserved funds from the cardholder's account. It is used to solve specific situations, e.g. in case when a Purchase, Authorization or Capture transaction was triggered accidentally.
  • Reference Refund - gives funds to the cardholder's account. It has to refer to an eligible Purchase or Capture transaction.

Note

Sale requests are serviced at following URL:

https://switch.wirecard.com/mswitch-server/v1/sales

In context of Wirecard ePOS, term Purchase is used for both:

  • type of Sale - called Sale-Purchase - created by request with PURCHASE operation
  • transaction type - Cash Purchase transaction, Card Purchase transaction, Alipay Purchase transaction and WeChat Purchase transaction