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by Teever 1360 days ago
I'm baffled by the fact that the system is designed in any way to enable merchants to know that the card you're paying with is a single use card.
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happymellon 1359 days ago
They run two transactions, the first being £0 and it resets the card number causing the second to fail.
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Dylan16807 1359 days ago
That sounds like a bug on Revolut's side. It's supposed to be one payment per number, right?
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awill88 1359 days ago
No, it’s strategic. Feature not a bug. As someone who has integrated with Visa/MC/Amex using old school SOAP APIs, you will get higher quality context about what’s going on with the card when you hit it with a zero dollar transaction. Can’t say for sure if they are doing it primarily to avoid supporting this virtual card thing. But I found it conventional in my fintech stint
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ScoobleDoodle 1359 days ago
Parent is saying Revolut should handle both the 0 payment and the subsequent real payment without resetting the number so that this workflow succeeds. They’re not saying to fix the double charge attempt, which as you say gives more information.
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solumunus 1359 days ago
They're saying £0 isn't a payment and Revolut should ignore it. It's not a Revolut bug but it's missed functionality for sure.
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happymellon 1359 days ago
I'm not sure, the merchant is running a dummy payment transaction presumably for this scenario so they can avoid people not giving them a card to charge at will.

This is where the card numbers that you can generate are best because you can delete the card afterwards.

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