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The card info. usually goes to a payment gateway processor. The processor checks to see if the card is valid, if it is approved the funds for payment are held in the cardholder's account. At the end of the day (week) the merchant performs the transaction via the processor again, and the payment is transferred from the account holder to the merchant.

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