AVS A tool offered by American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa, JCB, and Diners Club International that allows merchants (including travel agents) to verify that the billing address provided by th [..]

Checking method for VISA, MasterCard and American Express to prevent fraud for credit card payments in long distance transactions in which the numerical address data provided by the customer is compared with the address data stored at the credit card company.

An address verification service (AVS) is a standard used to match billing information on record to billing information at the point of sale in debit and credit card transactions. It is part of the cur [..]

A system that permits the verification of a card user’s address against the address held for the card.

A service supported by Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express®

A system established by the credit card processing associations to verify customer billing addresses submitted with e-commerce payment transactions. Though AVS does not verify the legitimacy of a tran [..]

A process that credit card processors implement to verify that the billing address of your customers match the address in their credit card statement.

 Known as AVS it verifies a customer address against a given credit card by comparing the cardholder’s billing address with the provided shipping/physical address. AVS does not decline transactions, b [..]

A Mastercard service to help combat fraud for non-face-to-face transactions by use of cardholder address information in the authorization request.

The process of validating a cardholder's given address against the issuer's records, to determine accuracy and deter fraud. This service is provided as part of a credit card authorization for mail o [..]