Stripe Interaction with Cards Network
Explore how Stripe interacts with card networks such as Visa to validate payment card details through API calls. Understand the request and response formats involved in verifying cardholder data, enabling secure and reliable payment processing within the product architecture.
In the previous lesson, we described the client's interaction with the Stripe gateway. In reality, the payment ecosystem also consists of other components, one of which is the cards network. The payment gateway validates the credit or debit card and user information by passing it to the cards networks. In this lesson, we will discuss passing payment card and cardholder information to the cards networks using their provided APIs. In return, the cards networks' APIs verify the data provided by Stripe from different entities, such as the issuer bank.
Payment card validation
Payment gateways, such as Stripe, provide the ...