How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type

Re:How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type by ry0ohki on Monday March 31, 2014 @02:59PM (#7503414)

I'd say in part because you want to give people a UX they are comfortable with. Sites for years have been asking for "Card type", and so a user may suspect something is wrong if they don't need to enter it and show no indication you know what it is.

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Re:How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type by eli on Monday March 31, 2014 @03:05PM (#7503439)

That seems unlikely, but I've certainly been wrong about UI questions before. I'd be very curious if anyone has any data supporting this idea.

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Re:How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type by qq66 on Monday March 31, 2014 @03:11PM (#7503474)

No data, but as a user I do expect to see a card type selector or indicator, even though I rationally know its superfluous.

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Re:How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type by zorpner on Monday March 31, 2014 @03:37PM (#7503610)

Unfortunately I don't have actual numbers for you, but a company I used to work for that did a fair bit of CPO had good data that removing that selector reduced conversions (the most interesting thing to come out of that study was that, at the time and with our client base, removing the actual card logos (e.g. leaving only the textual names) increased conversions).

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Re:How to Correctly Detect Credit Card Type by xur17 on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @08:30AM (#7507528)

I've seen sites (can't remember which ones off the top of my head) that do autodetect your credit card type while typing it in. I wasn't phased by it.

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