[Tagging] Rehabilitate payment:cards=yes?

[Philip Barnes]

Definitely.

Same in the UK for normal debit and credit cards, i.e. MasterCard/Visa cards which the vast majority are.

Charge cards such as American Express have much lower acceptance due to very high charges for the retailer. 

Phil (trigpoint) 

On Saturday, 2 April 2022, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> In which regions/countries one may encounter situation of being able to pay with
> debit card and unable to pay with credit card? Or reverse?
> 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:payment claims that one should use
> payment:debit_cards=yes + payment:credit_cards=yes instead of
> payment:cards=yes
> 
> Is there a valid reason for that?
> 
> At least in Poland I am unaware about any cases (in regular shops) where
> only debit cards or only credit cards would be accepted and the other
> card variant would not be.
> 
> I propose to start treating payment:cards=yes as acceptable (maybe only
> in regions where there is no real difference between them as far as 
> acceptance in shops is concerned).
>

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