What is the Address Verification System?
If you sell via mail/telephone order, or through the Internet, you don’t want to send a product to a false address and risk a chargeback. The Address Verification System (AVS) lets you enter the customer’s home address and compares it to the address on file with their credit card company. If someone uses a stolen card, and wants products shipped to a false address, AVS will detect this for you.
If you sell mail order/telephone order, or through the Internet, you don’t want to send a product to a false address and have a risk of receiving a chargeback. The Address Verification System (AVS) lets you enter the customer’s home address and compares it to the address on file with their credit card company. If someone uses a stolen card, and wants products shipped to a false address, AVS will detect this for you.
If you sell mail order/telephone order, you do not want to send a product to a false address and have the risk of the cardholder not receiving the order as well as a charge back to you. The Address Verification System (AVS) lets you enter the customer’s billing or home address and compares it to the address on file with their credit card company. If someone uses a stolen card, and wants products shipped to a false address, AVS will detect this for you.
The Address Verification System (AVS) lets you enter the customer’s home address and compares it to the address on file with their credit card company. If someone uses a stolen card, and wants products shipped to a false address, AVS will detect this for you. Designed for card not present transactions.
The Address Verification System (AVS) is a system whereby eProcessingNetwork, when connecting to your customers issuing bank through your MSPs processor, is able to verify whether the street address and Zip code entered by your customer is the same as the street address and Zip code that the customers issuing bank has on file. AVS is a standardized system among the credit card companies with a fixed set of responses documented, in detail, in the Processing Control section of the eProcessingNetwork Merchant Support Center (ePN/MSC), where merchants have the ability to specify which AVS responses they wish to accept and which AVS responses they wish to decline. AVS responses often relate to the rate you will pay your Acquiring Bank for processing your transactions, as well as your potential liability in the case of chargebacks. For details on rates and chargebacks, please refer to your original Merchant Account Agreement or contact your Merchant Service Provider. Keep in mind that the AV
