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Cartes Bancaires (CB)

Learn about Cartes Bancaires, a common payment method in France.

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Cartes Bancaires is France’s local card network. More than 95% of these cards are co-branded with either Visa or Mastercard, meaning you can process these cards over either Cartes Bancaires or the Visa or Mastercard networks. Businesses processing co-badged cards in the EEA must provide customers a choice of which network they prefer at checkout time. See our guide for co-badged cards compliance for more information.

Cartes Bancaires can have a positive effect on your acceptance rate in France. If a charge is declined on the Cartes Bancaires network for a technical reason, Stripe automatically retries the charge on Visa or Mastercard’s networks.

  • Customer locations

    Europe

  • Presentment currency

    EUR

  • Payment confirmation

    Customer-initiated

  • Payment method family

    Cards

  • Recurring payments

    Yes

  • Payout timing

    Standard payout timing applies

  • Connect support

    Yes

  • Dispute support

    Yes

  • Manual capture support

    Yes

  • Multicapture support

    Yes

  • Refunds / Partial refunds

    Yes / Yes

Availability

If your business isn’t based in France, Cartes Bancaires won’t be fully enabled until your account has processed 50 EUR from Cartes Bancaires eligible cards. French Stripe accounts with the “type of business” set as “Particulier / Micro-entrepreneur / Auto-entrepreneur” are eligible for Cartes Bancaires after providing their business tax ID in the Dashboard settings.

Disputes

As with Visa and Mastercard, cardholders can dispute Cartes Bancaires charges. Because Cartes Bancaires dispute rules are more stringent, there are fewer reasons that a cardholder can dispute a charge, which on average leads to a lower dispute rate compared to Visa and Mastercard. Businesses can’t contest Cartes Bancaires disputes—the dispute fee is 0 Euro on Cartes Bancaires.

Integration

If you can already accept card payments, you can accept Cartes Bancaires. See the co-badged cards compliance guide to learn how to best handle customer priority selection, and to find multiple test cards that you can use to test your integration as soon as it’s active. If you require that Cartes Bancaires is never the default network for any payments, please contact support.

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