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t card is the means of payment as thecard program.
replacement of money and credit card is usedBased on the payment method, credit card was
anytime for the product or service transaction ordistinguished to credit card, charge card and debit
guaranteed the legality of the cheque that wascard.
issued to places that could accept credit card1. Credit Card
(merchant). Credit card also to carry out the cashCredit Card is the kind of credit card that could
withdrawal to the bank or the network of thebe used as the implement in the product or
credit card publisher (cash advance).service payment of the trade transaction, where
Therefore, credit card was the paymentthe paying off or credit card payment could be
implement in the form of the card that wascarried out simultaneously or by paying by
made from a kind of plastic where at its surfaceinstallments totaling minimal certain.
written the name, the number of the membershipThe number of credit card installments was
and the holder's signature of credit card that couldcounted from the value of the bill of the balance
give substitution of the method of paymentadded by the monthly interest, the bill of previous
instead of the legal one like paper money and coinmonth including the interest was the subject of
and commercial paper.the loan in the following month.
At the beginning before money known as theThe typical characteristics of credit card was the
transaction implement, each transaction wasprovisions of the limit that applied to all the
carried out by means of barter (the transactionmember depended on the card kind (gold, regular
by means of the exchange of the thing with theor classic), minimal payment 10% - 20% from the
thing or the thing with the service or the servicetotal balance of the bill and was paid not later than
with the service). The further development wasfall due that was determined. The delay of credit
found money as the effective and efficientcard payment (after being due) would subjected
transaction implement. However, the use ofto the delay fine as big as certain percentage
money experienced the obstacle and the certainfrom minimal payment.
risk so as finally credit card was created.2. Charge Card
Before credit card was used as the paymentCharge Card is the card that could be used as the
implement in carrying out the trade transaction,payment implement of a trade transaction of
Edward Bellamy wrote a book in 1887 and wasproduct or the service where the customer must
published a year later with the Looking Backwardpay all the bill fully at the end of the month or in
title that afterwards became one of thethe following month with or without the additional
best-sellers in that period.cost.
In this book, Bellamy took the set related inGenerally, this credit card did not have the
Boston, the United States in 2000. In one of hisprovisions of the use limit, payment was full on all
dialogues was mentioned that in 2000 (onethe transactions (the bill) before the following bill
hundred thirteen years after the writing of thisand without used percentage the interest, but
book), money as the payment implement at thiswhen payment was not done fully from the bill will
time will be shifted with the creditcard, where thebe subjected to the delay fine.
card holder could satisfy all the requirement by3. Debit Card
using this credit card.Debit Card is the payment card on the trade
Credit cards, initially only as a method of avoidingtransaction of the product or the service by using
the embarrassed feeling because of not bringingthe card. In principle, the transaction using this kind
enough money to a restaurant or the shoppingof credit card was the cash transaction by not
centre. Franklin National the Bank, was the firstusing cash but the paying off or payment was
agency that issued the bank's credit card to hiscarried out by means of debiting (reduced)
customer in 1951.directly the balance of the account of credit card
Afterwards credit card was accepted by theholder and at the same time crediting the account
community and many small banks gathered withof the sale (merchant) as much as the transaction
the American bank system, in 1966 permission toto the publisher's bank (the manager).
widen credit card all through small banks inThe debit card holder must have the account to
America and other countries. However severalthe bank, because this transaction principle is like
banks felt unsatisfied and want to authorization inthe cash transaction, so the transaction could be
operating credit card. The wish of credit cardonly carried out if of this credit card holder had
authorization was the beginning of operational ofthe enough balance to cover the transaction cost,
credit card was separated. The bank or theafterwards payment was done with debiting
financial agency was given by the decisivedirectly the balanceof the account of the card
freedom fully in compiling their respective creditholder and crediting the merchant account.