Many people in today’s world are
using the credit card for their daily routine life transaction. They find it
feasible option instead of keeping cash in their pockets. As many bad things
can happen while carrying cash with you. People usually seem to be interested
in giving the payment by some sort of card instead of having cash directly. Now
many people seem to be quite interested in the in knowing about the credit card processing details. The
details of processing can be explained in four steps and those steps are
authorization, batching, clearing and funding. Actors are also involved in this
process and these actors are card holder, merchant, acquirer and issuer. Every
entity fulfills its role according to the domain area.
The whole processing starts when a
user uses a credit card for buying something. Card holder places the request
for the use of his card. That request is received by the merchant and then
merchant has the duty to forward that request further to the acquirer. When
acquirer receives the request, what he does is that he sent the request further
to the issuer. When issuer found that card is valid and nothing is wring then
issuer sends a message in the form of code back to the acquirer. Acquirer then
sends the message to the merchant. Upon receiving that message merchant give
confirmation to the card holder and the process of processing is completed. This
is the process that is followed in credit
card processing. All people are quite restricted to the use of credit card.