as I know in my country there is a credit card that says MarterCard or Visa. while on this card, I can't find it written on the ELITIUM card. like a credit card that I have a MasterCard and also makes it easier for me to verify my card when I use it in certain market place. and another one in this ELITIUM card, I don't see any card number there. can you explain?
I don't think this card is provided by one of them, In Indonesia we are also have payment gateway called "GPN" that provided by Bank Indonesia, on GPN card you will not see MC or Visa. Same as Elitium card, this card provided by Elitium it self, i think its not related with visa or mastercard. If someone want to use this card for payment, they need to use such as EDC provided by Elitium or something else (eg. barcode) that supported to accept Elitium card payments. CMIIW
One think that makes me want to ask to the team, in website this card spendable at 46m+ shop, this is already have a cooperation with elitium or just a goals atm?
There's a slight misconception here. Visa, Mastercard, or if you may, GPN, are the intermediaries, not the card provider. They acts as a "middle man" to bridge different financial institutions to verify transactions. The card provider themselves are still your own banks. This is where we can put Elitium at, as an equal to your own bank.
For a better understanding, let's say there's a customer who own an account in bank A and a seller who own an account on bank B.
As there are two different (and probably competing) banks, it should be impossible to communicate a transaction happened between the buyer and seller because there is no way bank A and bank B has an integrated system. This is where the intermediaries come: they communicate the transaction happened between seller and buyer to both banks.
Simply put, when buyer swiped their card, the card reader machine (presumably issued by bank B) will read information stored within the card such as issuing bank and account holder name, and forward this information to visa or MC together with the amount that'll be deducted. Visa will then forward this info to bank A to check if buyer has enough money on their account to be deducted. If so, payment succeed. Bank A will deduct the amount from buyer's account and forward this "money" to visa, which will forward them to seller's account on bank B.
In other case, there's a smaller circle where the buyer and seller has an account on the same bank. With this, they don't need an intermediaries like visa or MC as transactions happened internally within the bank. Bank C reads and confirm buyer has enough money, and then move the money to seller's account which also in bank C. But, if this is the case, then the card reader machine usually issued by bank C and can only be exclusively used to read card issued by bank C. If we swipe card from bank A or bank B to this card reader, it'll be marked as an error because C didn't use Visa or MC (or GPN) to forward and receive information from and to bank A or B. This, in a way, related to the later part of
Masulum's post.
As for the second part of
Masulum's post, I believe they refer to Visa's merchant, as evidenced by
mu_enrico's quoted text, and not shops and companies which already partnered with Elitium