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A merchant category code (MCC) is a four-digit number used for retail financial services to classify a business by the types of goods or services it provides. Codes are specified by the ISO 18245 standard.
Merchant code range. Business type. 0001–1499. Agricultural services. 1500–2999. Contracted services. 4000–4799. Transportation services. 4800–4999. Utility ...
ISO 18245 is an ISO standard concerning the assignment of merchant category codes (MCC) in retail financial services. These are used to control usage of corporate credit cards . MCCs are assigned by merchant type (e.g. one for hotels , one for office supply stores, etc.), with each merchant being assigned an MCC by the bank .
Merchant type, or merchant category code 19: n 3: Acquiring institution (country code) 20: n 3: PAN extended (country code) 21: n 3: Forwarding institution (country code) 22: n 3: Point of service entry mode 23: n 3: Application PAN sequence number 24: n 3: Function code (ISO 8583:1993), or network international identifier (NII) 25: n 2: Point ...
Card schemes are payment networks linked to payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, of which a bank or any other eligible financial institution can become a member. By becoming a member of the scheme, the member then gets the possibility to issue cards or acquire merchants operating on the network of that card scheme.
Unlike other debit cards, the IRS does not allow FSA debit cards to be used at every merchant that accepts Visa or MasterCard. Rather, only the following types of merchants may accept an FSA debit card, usually enforced using "merchant category codes" or "merchant type codes" assigned by Visa and MasterCard:
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A merchant plug-in (MPI) is a software module designed to facilitate 3-D Secure verifications to help prevent credit card fraud. [1] The MPI identifies the account number and queries the servers of the card issuer (Visa, MasterCard, or JCB International) to determine if it is enrolled in a 3D-Secure program and returns the web site address of the issuer access control server (ACS) if it is ...