The term check card can refer to:
* An identification card issued by a
retailer
Retail is the sale of goods and Service (economics), services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturing, manufacturers, dire ...
allowing the holder to tender payment by
check
Check or cheque, may refer to:
Places
* Check, Virginia
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Check'' (film), a 2021 Indian Telugu-language film
* ''The Checks'' (episode), a 1996 TV episode of ''Seinfeld''
Games and sports
* Check (chess), a thr ...
. Such cards were commonly issued in the United States by supermarkets and other retailers before the widespread use of
debit cards.
** In Ireland and the United Kingdom, similar cards known as
cheque guarantee card
A cheque guarantee card was an abbreviated portable letter of credit granted by a bank to a qualified depositor in the form of a plastic card that was used in conjunction with a cheque.
The scheme provided retailers accepting cheques with great ...
s were issued by banks to their customers.
** In the United States, the term ‘check card’ was first coined by
H. Robert Heller, then the President of
Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. (; stylized as ''VISA'') is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. It facilitates electronic funds transfers throughout the world, most commonly through Visa-branded cred ...
to indicate to users that it could be used just like a check.
* A
debit card.
Payment systems
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