Mastercard Incorporated
Electronic system and method for transaction processing

Abstract:

The present disclosure generally relates to an electronic system, a computerized method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for processing a transaction between a consumer and a merchant with a payment instrument of the consumer selected for the merchant. The system comprises a server configured for performing steps of the method comprising: receiving, from an acquirer financial institution for the merchant, details of the transaction and a common virtual payment token, the transaction details comprising details of the merchant; retrieving, from a consumer database, identification details of a set of consumer payment instruments associated with the common virtual payment token; selecting, from the set of consumer payment instruments, the consumer payment instrument for the merchant based on the merchant details; retrieving, from the consumer database, payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument; and processing the transaction with the selected consumer payment instrument, said transaction processing comprising communicating, to an issuer financial institution for the selected consumer payment instrument, the transaction details and the payment details of the selected consumer payment instrument.