Card-Present Transaction
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A transaction where the physical card or a provisioned device is at the point of sale and is read by a terminal, whether by chip, contactless or magnetic stripe. Card-present acceptance generally carries lower fraud risk and lower interchange than card-not-present, and it shapes which Self-Assessment Questionnaire applies, since the relevant questionnaires turn on how the card is read and what the merchant systems touch.