A central web-based application allowing merchants to view and manage their payment transactions
and risk checks as well as generate reports and statistics.
A bank or financial institution licensed by a credit card organization to accept credit cards as means
of payment for goods and services and process card transaction on behalf of the merchant.
A fraud prevention method defined by Visa, MasterCard and American Express for e-commerce
and MOTO card transactions. It matches the numeric address data provided by the cardholder
at the time of the purchase with the card billing address held by the card organization.