why visa card (issue by banks outside china) is not accepted by some merchants?

Question

I tried using my VISA (issue in Singapore), but was rejected in Watsons Shenzhen. Some out merchants also did not accept, their machine unable to accept overseas credit card.

Charlie · Answer

Chan, not all pos machines accept foreign credit cards. The merchants need to ask the bank where they get the pos machines to enable this function. I guess Watsons you visited didn't enable this function so that they only accept Chinese credit cards.

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Why VISA card (issue by banks outside China) is not accepted by some merchants?