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Old Jun 20, 2017, 6:42 am
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Coding of Merchant Code when using contactless/apple/android/samsung pay
Does anybody know, the four digit Merchant Category Code (MCC) is changed or stays the same when payment is made via contactless NFC chip based technology with smartphones - apple/android/samsung pay?
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Old Jun 20, 2017, 10:32 am
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It does not change as you are using your actual card (or on a mobile wallet, a version of your actual card). The old Google Wallet used some sort of proxy card, but that has gone away.
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Old Jun 20, 2017, 10:44 am
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The MCC should be the same regardless of how the card's used. There used to potentially be a difference back when Google Wallet supported NFC but that was due to it acting more like a prepaid card that automatically reloads.

On the other hand, that implementation did allow every US card to work (and likely costed Google money in the process).

EDIT: looks like most of my post was mentioned already. Oops.
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