Push-to-Card (P2C) Payments | B2B Finance Glossary
Sep 21, 2023 by Zazil Martinez
What is a Push-to-Card (P2C) Payment? A push-to-card (P2C) payment – also known as a push payment, a digital disbursement, or a debit card disbursement – is a type of payment solution that allows a cardholder to send or, in other words, “push” money to another cardholder. This is the opposite of a pull payment, which enables funds to be pulled from one account and sent to another. In a pull payment, the payee is authorized to collect or “pull” money from another account and move it to their account. In this way, payers are not responsible for moving funds themselves, and they allow payees to take money from their accounts automatically – something that contrasts with push-to-card payments.
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