Small charge card processing provides verification of debit and credit card details, prior to the processing of larger amounts.
To accept large payments for orders placed over the telephone, when the delivery address and card holder address differ, we must first validate the payment card. We do this by processing a 1p transaction through our website*.
*Please note that some banks do not accept 1p as a transaction amount for their Visa and Mastercards. Their response will tell us that we should retry the authorization with an amount of £1, which we do automatically.
Following a successful £1 authorisation, we immediately void request to ensure that the transaction does not settle.
