Credit Card Glossary: Terms and Definitions
Batching
The second step in processing a credit card. At the end of a day, the merchant reviews all the day’s sales to ensure they were authorized and signed by the cardholder. It then transmits all the sales at once, called a batch, to the acquirer to receive payment.
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