What cards can I accept?
Card Schemes
Your Cardnet facility allows you to accept many different types of cards. The guide below shows you the processing options possible for each of the different card schemes.Electronic Processing | Manual Key Entry | Paper Fallback | Mail and Telephone Order* | Internet* | Purchase with Cashback* | Paper Voucher Processing* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mastercard | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | X | Y |
International Maestro | Y | X | X | X | Y# | Y | X |
Visa Credit | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | X | Y |
Visa Debit | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Electron | Y | X | X | Y | Y | Y | X |
UK Maestro | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y# | Y | X |
Solo | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | X |
Corporate, Commercial & Purchasing cards | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | X | Y |
* The acceptance of these facilities must also be agreed with Cardnet. For more information contact the Cardnet Helpline on 01268 567100. Lines are open 8am to 9pm, Monday to Saturday.
# Maestro cards can only be accepted over the Internet if you are registered for MasterCard SecureCode.
Please note that zero floor limits will apply to all of the following transaction types below and you must always obtain an authorisation for such transactions:
Where the customer is present
- All Magnetic Stripe read transactions
- All Key Entered transactions
- All Paper or manually processed transactions (authorisation by telephone)
Where the customer is not present
- All Card Not Present transactions which include telephone/mail order and e-commerce (Internet) transactions.
Please remember that if you process any of the above transactions without authorisation they may be rejected by the Card Issuing Bank and charged back to you.