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Card Payment Sequence

Follow a card purchase from POS terminal to acquirer, scheme, issuer, clearing, settlement, and merchant funding.

POSAcquirerSchemeIssuerClearingFundingcardTerminaltap €56AcquirerwaitingSchemewaitingIssuernot reachedThe terminal begins a distributed card workflow.
Step 1 / 6POS terminal starts the authorisation

The merchant terminal packages the amount, card data, terminal id, and EMV evidence into an authorisation request.

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