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Why Is My Payment Declined?
Why Is My Payment Declined?

This article is iterative and lists the most common reasons a payment gets declined and how to solve it.

Luca D'Intino-Conte avatar
Written by Luca D'Intino-Conte
Updated over 9 months ago

Audience

Internal and External - Operators, Support Team, Account Managers, Engineers, & Product Teams

Description

This article is iterative and lists the most common reasons a payment gets declined and how to solve it.

Denied payments occur when you attempt to process the guest's credit card, and the processor denies the card. This can happen due to different causes

  • Insufficient funds

  • Invalid card number

  • Invalid expiry date

  • Invalid PIN

  • Debit blocks placed on the card

  • Suspected fraud (SIFT)

  • Worn-out chip or magstripe on the card - (in-store only)

NOTE:

Lunchbox is PCI compliant and tokenizes card information for the cardholder. Lunchbox is unable to re-process denied transactions.

Tips on Denied Payments:

The orders will not go into the POS if the restaurant is in offline mode, but rest assured that the payment has been made. You won't see it until it's back up online

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