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Bancontact (formally known as Bancontact/Mister Cash) is a payment method accepted by all Belgian banks, and is leader in Belgium´s electronic card payments market equalling more than 80% of all card payments. Bancontact is a standard application on the card that the bank issues when an account is opened. To become a Bancontact user, consumers need to contact their bank.
As a payment scheme, Bancontact fulfills two major functions:
Please visit Bancontact for further information and details.
For a visual representation of the order flow behavior and associated transaction-based operations of this payment method we invite you to have a look at the respective order flow diagram.
The optional request parameters customerStatement
and orderReference
are more restricted with regard to their length and allowed characters than are other general request parameters.
Parameter | Data type | Short description |
---|---|---|
customerStatement | ASCII with a variable length of up to 25 characters. | Text displayed on bank statement issued to your consumer by the financial service provider. |
orderReference | Allows for exactly 10 characters and may consist only of the following characters: A-Za-z0-9+?/-:().,' | Unique order reference ID sent from merchant to financial institution. |
Which currencies may I use within this payment method?
You may use EUR.
Which languages are available for your consumer on the Bancontact pages?
Bancontact can display the pages in 27 different languages:
If the parameter language
is not set or differs from these languages, the customer's browser accept-language is used. If still no valid language can be found, Bancontact pages will be displayed in English.