- As per RBI guidelines, businesses and payment acquirers are allowed to save the last 4 card digits and the Bank Identification Number (BIN) only.
- As per current interpretation, businesses and Payment Acquirer are not allowed to save the Issuer Identification Number (IIN) of the card.*
Token IIN API
A token is an alias or surrogate value for the actual card number. Whenever the network tokenises a card, the token generated will be a numeric value with the same length as the actual card number.For Example
Card Number | Token
4386 2894 0766 0153 | 4123 4511 1111 1117 When a card is tokenised, the first 6 digits or the IIN of the card gets changed. The new IIN for the card is referred to as token IIN. Use the following API to fetch the properties of the card using token IIN. /iins/:token_iinPath Parameter
token_iin mandatory
: integer The token IIN.
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