I was filling up a work vehicle using a fuel card earlier today and was curious if anyone knew how they worked? It doesn’t have a Mastercard or Visa symbol on it, other than that it looks the same as any other debit/credit card.
They also ask for your mileage when you use it. If this were using the Mastercard network I presume there would be special fields in the message to the bank/card supplier so the information can be recorded? But that doesn’t explain why it’s void of any Mastercard/Visa branding.
They’re normally standard EMV payments systems in the same way that Mastercard and Visa are but don’t do anything other than fuel and are normally specific to one or a small group of companies. Quite cool but extremely limited by design.