Yourwallet may soon be getting thinner. Visa announced major changes to how credit and debit cards will operate in the U.S. in the coming months and years. The new features could mean Americans will be carrying fewer physical cards in their wallets, and will make the 16-digit credit or debit card number printed on every card increasingly irrelevant. They will be some of the biggest changes to how payments operate in the U.S. since the U.S. rolled out chip-embedded cards several years ago. They also come as Americans have many more options to pay for purchases beyond credit or debit," including buy now, pay later companies, peer-to-peer payment options, paying directly with a bank, or digital payment systems like Apple Pay. [Associated Press]
The UK government says it intends to let people use debit cards to gamble on slot machines. The move will allow pubs, casinos and slot venues to compete in an increasingly cashless society, ministers argue. Gamblers will still be banned from using credit cards in the machines. And there will also be a cap on how much they can spend in one gambling session, with staff alerted when limits are hit. Systems that require payment authorization, such as Apple Pay, will be allowed, but otherwise contactless payments will remain banned. [BBC]
Citi has rebranded its popular mid-tier Citi Premier travel credit card as the Citi Strata Premier Card. The new Strata Premier Card is nearly identical to the old Citi Premier except it has additional travel protections, bonus spending categories and a new limited-time welcome offer. The Citi Strata Premier Card earns transferrable Citi ThankYou points and earns them in bunches. It also currently offers a welcome bonus worth 70,000 points after spending $4,000 in the first three months of account opening. This bonus is worth $700 in gift cards, cash back or travel. But the most notable changes with the Strata Premier are the new travel coverages, including: trip cancellation/interruption, trip delay, lost or damaged luggage, and MasterRental coverage (car rental insurance). [CNBC]
Many people get new credit cards to earn valuable bonuses, take advantage of special perks or get interest-free financing. These features can be expensive for card issuers, so they implement rules to limit how often you can get a new credit card. Some rules are explicitly written, while others are learned by trial and error. Learn about the credit card application rules for the major card issuers, so you know when to take advantage of lucrative offers. [USA Today]
I've been asked by an internal team to find out if we can change our setup for our card feeds. Currently we have a 1:1 mapping of 1 card feed per payment type once it comes into Concur and those are mapped to 1 GL account in our ERP. We use FIS to post all expense reports into our ERP which hit the correct accounts based on this payment type mapping.
The ask was if we could just create 1 card feed for a new card vendor that would hold multiple credit card program payment types 10-20 and then use the Subsidiary of the employee on the expense report header to determine the posting into the ERP via FIS/ Connector. The said it was done like this at there pervious company but didn't give me additional details. My assumption was that there past company used an SAE extract and not an integration to post expense reports so that they could determine the postings into the ERP correctly in a template.
Also i was concerned with this model if using Concur reporting was messy for there accoutning team- as for accruals they would likely want the breakdown of the different subsidiary programs types ( payment types) for reporting purposes.
@vsaqer I asked a colleague about this and here is what she said, "It is possible via manual maintenance. I would never recommend it because if they have employee ids in the feed they will automatically be mapped to the payment type associated with the feed.
To clarify something she said, you can only associate one payment type to a feed when setting up the feed. That's why there is the manual maintenance to be done. When the card feed imports for the first time, the assigned payment type for that card and user will be the one selected at the time of the feed set up.
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After the prompts, Navy Federal Credit Union produced the list of all accounts, including the credit card account. I clicked all accounts to link including the credit card account. All accounts are correct linked EXCEPT the credit card account. Too, I received error
I deactivated, then deleted all information above the Contact Name Field. The online service tab through select Financial Institution lists all accounts,. One can only check each accounts by Quicken account name to link with with Quicken. The credit card account did not link with anything and likely caused the error. Under Right Gear the CC acct remains: update now.
There was no way to link the current card with a specific account. Just a list of accounts and a check mark to link for download. The credit card account is not activated; the new card data was not added to the account.. It remains deactivated. The new CC is active on the NFCU system.
Based on everything you have said above - yes, I think the best course of action would be to setup the new account for your credit card > then connect that to downloads from NFCU and once that is successful, you can cut and paste the transactions from the old credit card to the new account. However, make sure that the transactions you "cut and paste from the old account" actually "zero out" - otherwise you'll have a problem with the credit card balance going forward.
I am a fellow NFCU member. I am sorry to hear that you are having issues trying to connect your new (replacement) NFCU credit card in Quicken. But I also am having some difficulty understanding exactly what happened when you tried to disconnect the old card and replace it in Quicken, with the new card.
From what you have said above (some of which I found hard to understand), it seems like you haven't been able to add the new credit card. I think that COULD be related to the old card settings. I assume that you tried to deactivate the old credit card and then "reconnect" your new card using the old card's account in Quicken.
Please let me know if that is the current status of your Quicken datafile. Also let me know - by looking at the the credit card account whether (when you open the credit card account's "Account Details >) the "General Tab" has the correct information in the "Account Number" field, and what information appears in the Online Services" tab.
Yes, I deactivated the VISA NFCU account, cleared the Financial Institution name and old card numberer. Then I reactivated the account, and went through the new system of reactivating the accounts. Reactivating the accounts resulted in this error:
"status" : 500,"error" : "Internal Server Error","path" : "/aggregator-authv2/aggAuthError Too, the new card information was not entered on reconnect.
I suspect the current account is rather messed up at this point. I have 2 backups during the attempts to fix this, and a backup before I started this. So I can start over the credit card installation. This was so much easier using the old manual way.
It might be easier to start again from the backup file that I created before any attempts to change vise account number while using the same account. Do you have a recommended method? Thank you for responding.
I think I know whet happened that is making it more difficult for you to connect your new card in Quicken. NFCU is currently moving members' Quicken accounts to Express Web Connect+, and I think that is, at a minimum, causing some confusion with trying to connect your new credit card. To make sure that this change is causing your problems, please open up one or more of your NFCU registers (other than the credit card) and tell me whether you see " (Express Web Connect +)" at the top of the register. Then open the register for the problem credit card account and tell me what you see at the top of the register.
I went back to the last good file I used before the attempt to add the new credit card (in place of old credit card). The EWC+ was not present; I see that I received the email about the update a day later than last food file.
I have now enabled EWC+. Results: all accounts show EWC+ EXCEPT the credit card account. The existing account is the old card number. I also received the 500 error message. I assume this is generated owing to a mismatch of the old credit card number in Quicken vs new number at NFCU?
The ideal now would be to use the existing Quicken Credit card account and set it up with the new card number so I preserve all data. The instructions in bold in my first post were claimed to work for those with this scenario. For NFCU I get the 500 error message and no change to the account.
At this point would it be better to set up a new account and then transfer all prior entries from the old account to the new account, then delete (after a precautionary backup) the old account? I would appreciate the best way to set up new account if this seems the fix.
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