Field Events
Improve the reliability of your acceptance, acquiring, and issuing solutions
A team of experts from FrenchSys and Elitt can help improve the acceptance performance of your terminal fleet by collecting, analysing, and resolving field incidents.
FrenchSys operates a Field Events analysis service, addressing issues such as card acceptance problems, deviations from the expected behaviour of acceptance systems, and various types of malfunctions.
This service, delivered in partnership with Elitt (FrenchSys’s sister company specialised in testing) helps improve the reliability of acceptance, acquiring, and issuing solutions. It relies on the complementary expertise of FrenchSys, which developed the specifications and operational rules for acceptance devices, and Elitt, which tests these same devices.
The Field Events service is available to all FrenchSys clients and their partners, including acquirers, merchants, payment solution vendors, processors, payment schemes, and card issuers.
Payment acceptance incidents can be reported at: evenements.terrain@frenchsys.com.
FCCS
Accelerate and secure the compliance of your terminals and payment solutions through a unified multi-scheme verification process.
FrenchSys manages the implementation of payment terminals and solutions through a common compliance verification process called FCCS (FrenchSys Common Compliance Scheme).
This process is defined in collaboration with the payment schemes that are clients of FrenchSys.
FCCS is a multi-scheme process that provides several advantages :
- It covers the payment schemes most commonly accepted in France : American Express, Cartes Bancaires (CB), Discover, JCB, Mastercard, UnionPay (UPI), Visa, and the scheme issuing meal-voucher cards.
- It provides a single point of contact, from test execution to scheme approvals, including certification against the specifications and standards required by the different schemes.
- It accelerates and secures the compliance process and reduces time-to-market for payment solutions.
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Last update : June 14, 2026
To contact the FCCS team at FrenchSys : fccs@frenchsys.com.
FrenchSys Card Information System (FCIS) / Configuration Service
Optimise multi-scheme acceptance and acquiring with standardised and up-to-date data for simplified management.
FCIS or FrenchSys Card Information System is the reference information system in France for facilitating multi-scheme card acceptance and acquiring, operated by FrenchSys.
In a standardised and consolidated format, it provides access to all the reference files required for the acceptance of six payment schemes that are clients of FrenchSys : Cartes Bancaires (CB), Discover, JCB, Mastercard, UnionPay (UPI), and Visa. These files are used to configure acceptance solutions supporting these schemes.
Access to FCIS is designed for acquirers and card processors active in the French market, enabling them to perform :
- Acquiring processing
- Routing of payment or withdrawal transactions
- Transaction pre-clearing
The FCIS database can be accessed by acquirers and card processors through standardised communication protocols or via APIs.
For more information, you can contact our experts at service-parametrage@frenchsys.com.
STCA
Ensure the security and compliance of your payment transactions with our trusted PKI infrastructure.
The STCA (Secure Transaction Certificate Authority) service, operated by FrenchSys, ensures the authentication and confidentiality of payment data flows through a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that secures TLS connections between payment terminals and acceptance servers, as well as between different payment servers.
This infrastructure guarantees compliance with security standards, strengthens user trust, and improves the resilience of the card payment system. It includes the various types of certificates required for :
- Authentication of payment servers by terminals
- Mutual authentication between payment servers
- Authentication of payment terminals by payment servers
This service is available to acquiring banks or PSPs that are clients of FrenchSys, as well as to merchants or service providers eligible for the STCA service.
For more information : stca2@frenchsys.com.
Monitoring of Your Acceptance Network
Gain a clear and up-to-date view of your acceptance network to ensure compliance with current standards.
FrenchSys monitors the French card acceptance network on behalf of its clients. Detailed tracking of the different types of acceptance devices, their volumes, and their characteristics is performed, enabling analysis of supported functionalities, compliance with the latest regulations, standards, and payment scheme requirements.
This monitoring makes it possible to :
- Identify the characteristics of an acceptance network and assess its level of compliance with current standards
- Consolidate information on payment devices and applications through the data flows they generate on interbank networks
- Manage migrations toward new functionalities, such as the ongoing migration to the FRv6 standard and support for Online PIN
FrenchSys remains available to provide its clients with an overview of their active acceptance network or statistics on the overall status of the card acceptance network in France.