Learn how credit card posting affects your transaction timeline, the differences between transaction and post dates, and how it impacts your account balance and payments.

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MAPsignals.com, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market ...

Updating the appropriate databases as soon as an order, payment or other transaction is made. Transaction processing enables anyone in the organization to obtain an account balance, inventory balance ...

An amount paid to an institution for handling a financial transfer. For example, the merchant pays a transaction fee to the credit card company for accepting payment from a customer. In a blockchain, ...