{"id":545,"date":"2015-02-05T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2021-01-27T08:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:11:31","slug":"lean-unnecessary-processing-online-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/lean-unnecessary-processing-online-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean – Unnecessary Processing of Online Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every time I purchase something online, I see a form that looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"Credit<\/a>

Type of card and credit number are redundant<\/p><\/div>\n

The Credit Card Type and Credit Card Number are redundant resulting in unnecessary duplication and processing<\/p>\n

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    • AMEX card numbers start with a “3”<\/li>\n
    • Visa card numbers start with a “4”<\/li>\n
    • Mastercard numbers start with a “5”<\/li>\n
    • etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      There is no reason to ask for both. The number will tell you what kind of card you’re processing.<\/em> Every day, across millions of transactions, customers are asked unnecessarily for a Credit Card Type. This is a type of waste. It irritates me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Almost every time I purchase something online, I see a form that looks like this: The Credit Card Type and Credit Card Number are redundant resulting in unnecessary duplication and processing AMEX card numbers start with a “3” Visa card numbers start with a “4” Mastercard numbers start with a “5” etc. There is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[27,166,101],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lean","category-service","tag-credit-card","tag-lean","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}