Time-Of-Transaction Foreign Currency Conversion
First Claim
1. A method for processing a credit card transaction involving a currency conversion, the method comprising:
- receiving an authorization request for a credit card transaction including a transaction amount in a first currency;
converting the transaction amount to a second currency;
transmitting the authorization request including the converted transaction amount to an issuing bank;
receiving an authorization response approving the transaction;
printing a transaction slip including the converted transaction amount, the transaction slip including a signature block for receiving a signature of the cardholder declining to have the transaction processed with the converted transaction amount.
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Abstract
Providing a time-of-transaction currency conversion from a merchant'"'"'s local currency to a cardholder'"'"'s credit card currency uses a conversion rate developed by reference to the particular merchant, acquirer, card association and issuer. After a merchant has generated an authorization request in the merchant'"'"'s currency for a transaction by a cardholder in a different currency, the transaction amount in the authorization is converted from the merchant'"'"'s currency to the currency of the cardholder'"'"'s issuing currency, and optionally modified to include additional fees. The converted authorization request is then transmitted to the appropriate card association and then to the issuing bank for authorization, with a response returned to the merchant. The cardholder sees and approves the transaction in the cardholder'"'"'s currency, and in an amount identical to the amount for which he will be billed.
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35 Claims
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1. A method for processing a credit card transaction involving a currency conversion, the method comprising:
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receiving an authorization request for a credit card transaction including a transaction amount in a first currency; converting the transaction amount to a second currency; transmitting the authorization request including the converted transaction amount to an issuing bank; receiving an authorization response approving the transaction; printing a transaction slip including the converted transaction amount, the transaction slip including a signature block for receiving a signature of the cardholder declining to have the transaction processed with the converted transaction amount.
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2. A method for processing credit card transactions, each transaction occurring between a merchant and a cardholder using a credit card of the cardholder and having a transaction amount, each merchant associated with a local currency, each credit card having an associated issuing currency, the method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of transactions from a plurality of merchants; for each transaction; determining a base rate for converting the transaction from an amount denominated in the local currency to an amount denominated in the issuing currency; determining a markup to apply to the base rate; converting the transaction amount from the amount denominated in the local currency to an amount denominated in the issuing currency according to the base rate and the markup rate; communicating to the merchant from which the transaction was received the amount denominated in the issuing currency.
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3. A method for processing credit card transactions, the transaction occurring between a merchant and a plurality of cardholders, each cardholder using a credit card having an associated issuing currency, the merchant having a merchant ID (MID) and the merchant associated with a local currency, the method comprising:
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defining a foreign merchant ID (FMID) for the merchant for each issuing currency supported by the merchant; determining a mapping from the MID to each FMID of the merchant; receiving from the merchant a plurality of credit transaction records to be processed, each transaction record including the MID; for each received transaction record, replacing the MID with the FMID for the issuing currency of the credit card used in the transaction to create a modified transaction record; grouping the modified transaction records according to FMID; and transmitting the grouped modified transaction records for clearance. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. A system for processing credit card transactions, each transaction occurring between a merchant and a cardholder, the cardholder having a credit card with an associated issuing currency, each merchant having an associated local currency, the system comprising:
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a merchant point of sale system, for facilitating a transaction between a merchant and a cardholder using a credit card, the transaction denominated in the local currency associated with the merchant, and for disclosing to the cardholder at the time of the transaction a converted transaction amount in the issuing currency associated with the credit card, and the transaction amount in the local currency; and a payment processor, communicatively coupled to the merchant point of sale system, the payment processor including payment processing logic and a plurality of data files for determining at the time of the transaction a currency conversion from the local currency to the issuing currency by selecting an applicable conversion rate from a plurality of conversion rates between the local currency and the issuing currency, and for communicating the selected conversion rate to the merchant point of sale system. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method for processing credit card transactions, each transaction occurring between a merchant and a cardholder, each cardholder using a credit card having an issuing currency and associated with a card association, and each merchant having an associated local currency, the method comprising:
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receiving an authorization request from a merchant, the authorization request including an identifier associated with the credit card used for the transaction being authorized, and a transaction amount in the local currency of the merchant; converting the transaction amount in the local currency to a modified transaction amount in the issuing currency using a base rate between the two currencies and at least one of a plurality of markup rates between the two currencies; forwarding the authorization request including the modified transaction amount to an issuing bank; receiving an authorization for the transaction from the issuing bank; transmitting the authorization to the merchant; and receiving a reconciliation report from the card association, the reconciliation report including information describing the transaction. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35)
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