Credit Card Processing (Was: london.pm Digest, Vol 57, Issue 4)

[Smylers]

Nicholas Clark writes:

> 1: IIRC start date isn't passed in clearing files by some merchant
>    acquirers, so you can't rely on that.

When filling in credit card details on a web form I never bother
providing start date, and it always goes through fine.

> ** IIRC only the digits from the postcode are used. I'm guessing that
>    the spec was made in the USA, where ZIPs are only digits.

My guess was this was so that merchants taking telephone orders can
punch them into a PDQ terminal which only has a numeric keypad. (But I
have no evidence for that.)

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