The Guide to Card Acceptance and Best Practices provides Global Payments merchants with information including:
- Pertinent procedures for managing and getting the most from your merchant account
- Your role in abiding by your merchant agreement and accepting cards for payment
- How the transaction process works
- Best practices in accepting bankcards, debit and EBT cards
- Necessary steps to prevent fraud
- Important telephone numbers in the event you may need to call for service
Guide to Card Acceptance
and Best Practices
Each and every day, more than one million merchant locations across North America rely on Global Payments to process millions of transactions through our data networks. Our goal is to ensure that you have the information, card payment options and flexibility you need to help your businesses grow.
Please Note: The Card Acceptance Guide is a PDF file. In order to open, read and print this document, you will need Adobe Acrobat reader. Download a free copy of the reader software and follow the directions.

Please Note: This guide is part of your Global Payments Direct, Inc. (herein after referred to as Global Payments or Global) merchant agreement and you must follow the procedures in this guide to comply with your agreement.
This Guide contains information protected by copyright. No part of this material may be duplicated, reproduced or disclosed in any form without prior written consent from Global Payments.
The information contained in this guide is proprietary and confidential to Global Payments and merchants who have executed an agreement with Global Payments for card payment services.
Global Payments reserves the rights to add, modify, or cancel any and all provisions described in this Guide, as it deems appropriate, with or without advance notice.