Site index · Singapore
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Everything on this site, listed. If you are looking for something specific and the section indexes have not surfaced it, it is here — and so are the machine-readable versions, at the bottom.
The site
Guides for Singapore merchants
- Choosing a provider
- The best payment gateway in Singapore is the wrong question
- How to choose a payment acquirer in Singapore
- Acquirer, gateway, PSP: what the words actually mean
- Who can enable Alipay+ and WeChat Pay for a Singapore merchant
- How to check a payment provider is actually licensed
- Switching payment provider without breaking a weekend
- Getting set up
- Getting a merchant account in Singapore: documents, timeline and what gets checked
- Which payment methods should a Singapore merchant accept?
- How to accept WeChat Pay and Alipay in Singapore
- Dynamic PayNow, static PayNow and SGQR: what a merchant needs to know
- Choosing a card terminal
- Taking payment when you have no website
- What it costs, and when you get paid
- Disputes, fraud and compliance
- Running the counter
Payment acceptance by industry
- Shops and food
- Visitors and travel
- Appointments and services
- Online and cross-border
Payment methods, one at a time
Reference
Glossary — one page per term
- Acquirer
- Issuer
- Payment gateway
- PSP (payment service provider)
- Card scheme
- Aggregator
- Reseller
- Payment facilitator (PayFac)
- Payment orchestration
- MAS (Monetary Authority of Singapore)
- Payment Services Act 2019
- MPI (Major Payment Institution)
- SPI (Standard Payment Institution)
- MAS Financial Institutions Directory
- KYC / KYB
- Beneficial owner
- PCI DSS
- Merchant Acquisition (licensed activity)
- UEN (Unique Entity Number)
- ACRA
- PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act)
- AML / CFT
- Authorisation
- Capture
- Settlement
- T+1 settlement
- Batch
- Reconciliation
- Chargeback
- Refund vs void
- Pre-authorisation (hold)
- Issuer decline
- Merchant descriptor
- 3-D Secure
- Tokenisation
- Card on file
- Payment link
- ARN (acquirer reference number)
- Representment
- Chargeback ratio
- Card present / card not present
- EMV
- Contactless
- Merchant-presented QR / consumer-presented QR
- Smart terminal
- MCC (merchant category code)
- Magnetic stripe
- Consumer-presented QR
- MID (merchant ID)
- Tap to phone (SoftPOS)
- CVM (cardholder verification method)
- Tip adjust
- PayNow
- Dynamic PayNow
- Static PayNow
- SGQR
- Alipay+
- WeChat Pay
- UnionPay
- E-wallet
- NETS
- FAST
- MDR (merchant discount rate)
- Interchange
- GMV (gross merchandise value)
- Merchant account
- Effective rate
- Per-transaction fee
- Blended rate
- Interchange-plus
- Cross-border interchange
- Net settlement
- Rolling reserve
- Surcharge