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Credit cards Thẻ tín dụng
Credit cards are a means of exchange, not a
payment. Ultimate payment by the card user occurs
at the end of the month when a cheques is written or
a bank a/c is debited to settle the outstanding
balance. In that respect, credit cards are akin to
trade credit for the users, and a substitute credit long
extended by retailers to customers. However, to the
seller of goods, sales made to the credit card users
have similarities to those made to cheque writers.
Costs and fee may differ, but credit card sales
vouchers can be effectively credited to the
merchant’s bank a/c in a similar manner to cheque
received. Because the voucher is a claim on the
credit card company or card issuing bank, the risk of
non payment is lower.
In the ways that most are currently structured, credit
card system can be thought of as similar to the
cheque payments system. Paper (i.e vouchers) flows
in a similar direction, the major difference being the
timing of transactions and liabilities incurred along
the way. The card holder/voucher writer is given
short-term credit (a short-term loan or long-term
float) by the card issuing body between the
immediate unconditional credit to the merchant
involved and delayed collection of value from card
holder. The combination of float to card holders
and more or less immediate reimbursement to stores
is thought to be one factor inhibiting the great use
of EFTPOS system, in which float is absent.