CCAV - Agreement (2) 3
CCAV - Agreement (2) 3
CCAV - Agreement (2) 3
THIS MERCHANT AGREEMENT is executed at Mumbai on the effective date as mentioned herein
Table 1:
7. PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS: The Merchant hereby instructs the Service Provider to make payment of
Customer Charge in respect of a Customer Order in the bank account details mentioned in the Cheque/
Bank Statement provided by the Merchant. The Merchant agrees to pay the TDR and other charges as
per the selected Pricing Scheme, the details of the TDR are mentioned in Annexure A hereto.
Payment Schedule: The Merchant will receive the Customer Charges on a Td + 1 business day/Weekly
basis. The TDR and the payment schedule may be revised by the Service Provider in accordance with
the regulatory policies or as agreed between the Service Provider and Merchant from time to time. Any
change in TDR and payment schedule due to mandates of Reserve Bank of India or Facility providers or
Service Provider\u2019s business promotion schemes shall be informed by the Service Provider to the
Merchant and such change shall deemed to be accepted by the Merchant, if no written communication
of non-acceptance of change is received from Merchant within 7 days of such intimation of change.
INFIBEAM AVENUES LIMITED, a company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 having its registered office at : 28th
Floor, Gift Two Tower, Block No. 56, Road 5C, Zone5, Gift City Gandhinagar - 382355, Gujarat India and administrative office at Plaza Asiad, Level
II, Station Road, Santacruz (West) Mumbai 400054 (hereinafter referred to as “the Service Provider/ Payment Aggregator/ CCAvenue”, which term
shall, unless repugnant to the context or meaning thereof, mean and include its successors and permitted assigns) of the ONE PART;
AND
THE MERCHANT as mentioned in Table 1 (Sr. No. 2) having its registered office in India as mentioned Table 1 (Sr. No. 3) which expression shall
unless it be repugnant to the context or meaning hereof shall be deemed to mean and include its successors and permitted assigns of the OTHER
PART.The Service Provider and Merchant are hereinafter individually referred as “Party” and collectively referred to as “Parties”.
WHEREAS:-
i. Service Provider has agreed to avail the facilities offered through Internet by various Acquiring Banks, Financial Institutes, Card Schemes,
Payment Instrument Providers, Issuing Banks, software providers, as well as third party service providers (hereinafter referred to collectively as
‘Facility Providers’). These facilities and services include the provision of net banking facilities; internet based electronic commerce, internet
payment gateway and electronic software distribution services and provides Authorization and settlement facilities in respect of payment
instructions initiated by various Customers of the Merchants on the Merchant’s Websites/ apps/ web links/ payment link etc. These Facility
Providers allows the Service Provider to use the internet payment gateways developed by them to process all type of online Payment
Instruments and all online Transaction initiated by a Customer on Merchant’s Site which includes websites/ apps/ web links/ payment links etc.
ii. The Service Provider is inter alia engaged in the business of offering e-commerce services which include bill presentments / payment and
accepting instructions through the internet in respect of payments to be made by the Customers using valid Payment Instruments to purchase/
avail various Products and Services offered by Merchant and accordingly transfer funds from the Customer’s bank account to the Merchant’s
bank account. The Service Provider act as an authorised Payment Aggregator that facilitate e-commerce sites and Merchants to accept various
Payment Instruments from the Customers for completion of their payment obligations in accordance with RBI Guideline bearing No.-
RBI/DPSS/2019-20/174 DPSS.CO.PD.No.1810/02.14.008/2019-20 dated March 17,2020 titled “Guidelines on Regulation of Payment
Aggregators and Payment Gateways” (hereinafter referred to as the said “RBI Guideline”).
iii. For providing the above stated e-commerce services the Service Provider has signed up with Facility Providers and has requested them to
accept the instructions given by Customers of Merchant through a valid online Payment Instrument and support Service Provider to facilitate the
online Transactions and further direct and settle the proceeds of Transactions from Customer’s bank account to Service Provider’s Escrow Bank
Account and in turn to the bank account of Merchant.
iv. The Service Provider has also established a web-site with the domain name www.ccavenue.com (“Service Provider Site”) to enable its Merchant
to link up with various payment gateways and Facility Providers so as to enable the Merchant’s Customers to place Customer Orders for
purchase and pay for the Products and Services through the Internet.
v. The Service Provider is desirous of passing on all these services to its appointed Merchants as more particularly hereinafter provided on the
terms and conditions hereinafter appearing and subject to the Merchant giving the indemnities and the declarations hereinafter contained.
vi. Along with services mentioned herein; if required by Merchant, the Service Provider shall additionally provide Payment Gateway Service as
mentioned in the said RBI Guideline, electronic bill presentment and payment settlement under Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) to the
Merchant in accordance with the terms and conditions as detailed in this Agreement. The provision of services to Merchant under BBPS is
subject to feasibility and approval process and guidelines of BBPS.
vii. The Parties hereto are desirous of executing this Agreement to record the terms and conditions of the services as under :-
NOW THE PARTIES HEREBY AGREE AS FOLLOWS:
1. DEFINITIONS:
1.1. "Acquiring Bank" shall mean various banks and financial institutions licensed under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 to
acquire, authorize and authenticate the online payment Transactions.
1.2. "Agreement" shall mean this agreement, declaration and indemnity and any and all tables, schedules, appendices, annexures and exhibits
attached to it or incorporated in it by reference.
1.3. "Authentication" shall mean the process by which the Customer’s identification is authenticated by the Card Schemes/ Issuing Bank /
Payment Instrument Provider.
1.4. "Authorization" shall mean the process hereunder by which the Issuing Bank/ Institution and/or the relevant Acquiring Banks/ Payment
Instrument Provider, Card Schemes electronically or otherwise convey the approval of a charge on a Transaction being undertaken by a
Customer on Site/ website/ app/ web link/ payment link.
1.5. "Business days" shall mean any day on which the Service Provider, Facility Providers are open for business in India other than Sunday or
any day which is a public holiday in India and/or in State of Maharashtra.
1.6. "Card Schemes" shall mean national or payment card networks including but not limited to Master Card, Maestro, Visa, Diners, American
Express and Rupay etc. which Authenticates, Authorizes and enables card Transactions.
1.7. "Chargeback" shall mean any approved reversal of any online card Transaction made by the Customer of Merchant on account of (i) any
alleged forgery of his card or other details (ii) duplicate processing of the Transaction; (iii) any amount required to be refunded due to,
denial of Transaction by the Customer as wrongly charged payment/ extra payments and/or due to the fraudulent use/misuse of the
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1.25. "Service" means tangible or intangible services provided to the Customer by the Merchant the payment for which is to be made on the
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Customer’s valid Payment Instrument.
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1.26. "Service Provider’s Website/ Site" shall mean the web-site with the domain name “https://www.ccavenue.com/” ” established2-by the
charged the full amount of the Customer Charge at the time of making Transactions.
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i. EMI calculator shall be available on the Merchant Site in order to provide the EMI calculation to the Customer. The Customer shall be
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ii. Thereafter, the Service Provider shall send details of settled Transactions for conversion of the Transaction to EMI along with
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details to the Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument Provider within prescribed time. Service Provider shall not be responsible if the EMI
Transactions are cancelled / reversed.
iii. The Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument Provider shall convert all Transactions approved by them to EMI within their prescribed time. The
final decision on whether a Transaction can be converted to EMI is taken solely by the respective Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument
Provider.
iv. The Merchant further confirms, undertakes and assures that the Service Provider shall not be liable in case of any dispute raised by the
Customer with respect to the rejection of EMI option to a Customer after a Transaction has been confirmed, irrespective of the Customer
Charge amount is already paid to the Merchant or not. The Merchant assures that the Customer shall raise such dispute related to non-
conversion of EMI directly with the Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument Provider.
v. The Merchant agrees that Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument Provider may charge interest rate to the Customers as per its internal
policies and other regulatory factors from time to time. The Service Provider has no authority deciding the rate of interest, repayment
terms, charges and any other terms and conditions of the EMI Scheme.
3.6. Taxes: Each Party shall bear and pay respective taxes as made applicable by the Government authorities from time to time. The Merchant
covenants to comply with all the compliances mandated under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as and when the same is implement by
the relevant Government authority, including but not limited to filing valid tax return relating to its Transactions with the Service Provider. In
case any credit, refund or other benefit under GST is denied to the Service Provider or is delayed due to any non-compliance by the
Merchant (such as failure to upload the details of Supply of goods/service on the GSTN portal, failure to pay GST to the Government, lower
compliance rating etc.) or due to non-furnishing or furnishing of incorrect or incomplete documents by the Merchant with the Government or
the Service Provider , the Merchant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Service Provider and reimburse the Service
Provider for the loss including ,but not limited to, the tax loss, interest, penalty, reasonable costs or expenses of any nature whatsoever,
whether accrued, absolute, contingent or otherwise; including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs (whether or not a suit
is filed).
3.7. Merchant’s Minimum Deposit Account Balance (If applicable): It is mutually agreed by the Merchant and the Service Provider, that the
Service Provider may retain a minimal amount “Reserve Deposit Amount” out of amounts payable to the Merchant in terms of Clause 3
hereof. The Merchant agrees that the Service Provider will impose additional Reserve Deposit Amounts, either temporarily or permanently,
which are more restrictive than limits placed on the Merchants in order to reduce Service Provider's reasonable apprehension of risk of loss
under varying circumstances.
4. COVENANTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MERCHANT:
4.1. The Service Provider and the Facility Providers shall not be a party to the Agreement or dispute between the Customer and the Merchant.
In the event of any dispute between the Merchant and the Customer whether in relation to any deficient, improper or incomplete Product
or Service provided by the Merchant or otherwise, the Service Provider and the Facility Providers shall not be made a party to any
litigation, arbitration or other proceeding instituted in respect of such disputes.
4.2. The Merchant undertakes to make timely payments of all the monies, charges, and Chargeback amounts, Refund amount duly payable to
Service Provider as and when demanded by Service Provider. Merchant also undertakes to payback any amount received in excess or
erroneously from Service Provider within 7 (Seven) calendar days of receipt of claim from Service Provider without any delay, demur or
protest.
4.3. The Merchant assures and guarantees to the Service Provider and the Facility Providers that the Merchant is acting in compliance with
and shall at all-time act in compliance with all laws, rules and regulations, notification, and guidelines set by RBI/ Service Provider and the
Facility Providers and further assures and guarantees that the Products And Services mentioned on Service Provider website at link
https://www.ccavenue.com/faq_ccav.jsp (go to _ FAQ-About CCAvenue as a payment gateway – what are the businesses that are not
accepted by CCAvenue) shall not be sold on the Merchant’s Site using services of Service Provider. Any Product or Service which is not
in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations whether federal, state, local or international including the laws of India shall not be
offered by the Merchant to its Customers through the services of Service Provider.
4.4. The Merchant further confirms, undertakes and assures that in the event of violation of any of the byelaws and standards of RBI, the
Facility Providers and Service Provider by the Merchant AND any penalty or charge imposed by the Facility Providers on the Service
Provider for any violation for any reason whatsoever, the Merchant shall on receipt of the claim from the Service Provider undertakes
forthwith without any demur, protest, dispute or delay, to pay to the Service Provider, the amount of the penalty / fine imposed by the
Facility Providers on the Service Provider.
4.5. The Merchant shall not at any time require the Customer to provide the Merchant with any details of the accounts held by them with the
Issuing Bank/ Payment Instrument Provider including, the passwords, account number, card numbers and PIN which may be assigned to
them by the Issuing Banks or Payment Instrument Provider from time to time.
4.6. In the event of any inconsistency between any provision of this Agreement and the standards set out by Facility Providers, the standards
shall govern.
4.7. The Merchant is aware that the Service Provider and the Facility Providers are not guaranteeing any Transactions with the Customers in
any manner whatsoever. The Merchant assures that the Customers will place the orders themselves and agree not to place orders on
behalf of Customers.
4.8. The Merchant shall use the Service Provider’s services and other facilities offered on the Service Provider’s Site only for the Merchant’s
Site as mentioned in Table 1 (Sr. No.5) and for no other Site/s. The Merchant shall use the Service Provider’s Payment Gateway services
only for selling/ providing the Products and Services mentioned in “Table 1 (Sr. No.6) and for no other Products or Services. In case of any
deviation from the Services without prior written approval of the Service Provider, the Merchant undertakes to be abiding by the decisions
of Service Provider including suspension of the pay out or refund to Customer or termination of Service Provider’s services.
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4.9. The Merchant must ensure that it shall not:- (a) undertake/allow Transactions for anything other than the genuine purchase of the
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Products and/or Services that the Merchant provides; (b) impose any minimum or maximum Transaction values; (c) discriminate against
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present Transaction Data for processing which was not undertaken directly between the Merchant and the Customer; (f) accept or process
Transactions in order to give Customers cash; (g) accept any Transaction using any Card or Payment Instrument issued in the Merchant’s
name, or related to the Nominated Bank Account or of a partner in, or director or other officer of Merchant’s Business or the Business of
the Merchant, or of the spouse or any member of the immediate family or household of any such person; (h) submit Transaction data
which Merchant know or ought to have known is illegal; (i) Refund Transactions to a Card/ Payment Instrument which was not originally
used to make such Transactions, and Merchant must not, under any circumstances, accept money from a Customer in connection with
processing a Refund to the Customer's Account.
4.10. The Merchant acknowledges that the Facility Providers and the Service Provider have the right to enforce any provision of the standards
and to prohibit any Merchant conduct that may injure or may create a risk of injury to the Facility Providers and the Service Provider
including injury to reputation, or that may adversely affect the integrity of the Facility Providers and the Service Provider’s core payment
systems, information or both. The Merchant agrees that he will not take any action that might interfere with or prevent exercise of this right
by the Facility Providers and the Service Provider.
4.11. The Merchant shall take all precautions as may be feasible or as may be directed by the Service Provider and the Facility Providers to
ensure that there is no breach of security and that the integrity of the link between the Merchant’s Site, the Service Provider’s Site and the
Payment Mechanism is maintained at all times during the term of this Agreement. In the event of any loss being caused as a result of the
link being breached or as a consequence of the link being improper or being in violation of the provisions of this clause, the loss shall be to
the account of the Merchant and the Merchant shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Service Provider and the Facility Providers from
any loss as may be caused in this regard. The Merchant shall comply with PA-DSS compliances (if applicable) and shall report to the
Service Provider in case of an information security incident related to systems or information.
4.12. The Merchant herby grants to the Service Provider and the Facility providers, a non-exclusive, royalty-free, limited license to use, display
and reproduce the trademarks, service marks and logos of the Merchant solely in connection with the marketing of their facilities and
services to the public. The Merchant shall prominently display on its Website and in other online marketing materials if applicable, a
statement/logo/image provided by Service Provider and or upon instructions of Facility Provider. The Facility Providers may at any time,
immediately and without advance notice, prohibit the Merchant from using any of the Marks for any reason.
4.13. The Merchant ensures that it shall prominently and unequivocally inform a Customer of the identity of the Merchant, which will enable the
Customer to distinguish the Merchant from any other third party and will ensure that its website:- (i) prominently displays the name of the
Merchant; (ii) prominently identifies the name of the Merchant as displayed on the website and as the name that will appear on the
Customer’s statement and (iii) display the Merchant name and information as prominently as any other information depicted on the
website, other than the images of the Products or the Services being offered.
4.14. The Merchant represent and warrant to the Service Provider and the Facility Providers that: (a) Merchant is duly organized, validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of the territory in which its business is registered, and a resident of India for income tax purposes; (b)
Merchant has all requisite license, registrations, right, power and authority in full force to enter into this Agreement and perform its
obligations and grant the rights, licenses and authorizations hereunder; and (c) Merchant and its subcontractors, agents and suppliers will
comply with all applicable Laws in the performance of its obligations and exercise of the rights under this Agreement.
4.15. The Merchant states that the individual signing this Agreement is an authorized representative of the Merchant and is thereby fully
authorized to bind the Merchant to contractual obligations and is authorized to provide the information and documentation submitted in
connection with this Agreement are complete and correct in all material respects. Merchant authorizes Service Provider to obtain and
verify, and to continue to obtain and verify any information submitted by Merchant any relevant information regarding principals, partners,
officers or other authorised representatives of Merchant and any other individuals listed on this Agreement including the individual signing
below, and for Service Provider use such information as reasonably necessary during the course of providing the services contemplated
here under as well as for Service Provider to share such information with its affiliates or as otherwise allowed by applicable law. The
Service Provider reserves the right to conduct audits and periodic oversight reviews of Merchant determining compliance with this
Agreement and byelaws and standards of RBI, the Facility Providers and Service Provider referenced herein.
4.16. The Merchant hereby agrees, assures and covenants as under, as far as American Express Card processing is concern:-
a. The Merchant must comply with, the American Express Data Security Operating Policy, a copy of which is available at
www.americanexpress.com/datasecurity and which American Express Card may amend from time to time in accordance with its terms.
b. The Merchant must indicate its acceptance of the American Express Card whenever it communicates the payment methods it accepts
to Customers and display the American Express Card Marks according to the American Express Card guidelines/ Terms and
Conditions and as prominently as warmly welcoming American Express Cards and in the same manner as any other Payment Product.
c. The Merchant must not (i) try to dissuade American Express Card members from using the American Express Card; (ii) criticize or
mischaracterize the American Express Card or any of its services or programs; (iii) try to persuade or prompt American Express Card
members to use any other payment products or any other method of payment (e.g., payment by cheque); (iv) impose any restrictions,
conditions, or disadvantages when the American Express Card is accepted that are not imposed equally on all other payment products
(except where expressly permitted under applicable national law); or (v) promote any other payment products (except the Merchant’s
own card that it issues for use solely at its establishments) more actively than it promotes the American Express Card.
d. The Merchant must not (i) engage in activities that harm American Express Card’s business or brand; or (ii) indicate or imply that it
prefers, directly or indirectly, any other payment products over the American Express Card. If American Express provides notice to
Service Provider that Merchant has breached this provision, Service Provider reserves its right to cease submitting Charges within 2
Business days and require Merchant to remove all American Express identification, logos and decals from Merchant’s website
immediately. If American Express determine that Service Provider on behalf of the Merchant vide this Agreement has failed to cease
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submitting Charges after receipt of such information from American Express and that Service Provider have breached this provision due
to default of Merchant, Service Provider shall be penalized the amount of Five Thousand United States Dollars ($5,000.00Digitally
USD) orsigned
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remit payment to American Express within 30 days of your receipt of an invoice. If Service Provider fails to remit such payment,
American Express may debit all relevant amounts from the bank account Service Provider have designated to receive payments from
American Express pursuant to this Agreement. The Service Provider in event of such penalty been imposed by American Express
reserve its right to impose the same on Merchant and the Merchant agrees to pay such penalty to Service Provider forthwith without
any demur or protest, dispute or delay.
e. The Merchant shall maintain Customer service information that is readily available for review by American Express Card member
transacting with Merchant. The Customer service information should include clear instructions on how to contact Merchant if the
American Express Card member has any question about a Transaction. At a minimum, the instructions must provide an active
Customer service e-mail address and a Customer service telephone number for the Merchant and for Service Provider an email
address and web page address on Service Provider’s Web site where American Express card members can access Transaction
information.
f. The Merchant hereby agrees, covenants (i) to accept Cards in accordance with the terms of the Merchant Agreement; (ii) to authorise
Service Provider to submit Transactions to, and receive settlement from American Express Card on behalf of the Merchant; (iii) to
authorise Service Provider to disclose Transaction data, Merchant data, personal information and other information about the Merchant
to American Express Card and its affiliates, agents, subcontractors, and employees, and allows American Express Card and its
Affiliates, agents, subcontractors, and employees to use such information to perform under the Agreement, operate and promote the
network, perform analytics and create reports, and for any other lawful business purpose; (iv) to display American Express Card Marks
and give Amex equal representation with any signage, decals or other identification when promoting payment methods and remove
them in case of termination of Merchant Agreement; (v) to enable Service Provider to comply with its obligations in relation to Card
member disputes, Transaction processing, authorisation, submission and protecting Card member information; (vi) to comply with all
applicable laws, rules and regulations relating to the conduct of the Merchant’s business; (vii) that Merchant shall warmly welcome
American Express Cards, meaning that they either do not surcharge American Express Card members, or if they do, they apply a
surcharge that is not more than any surcharge they apply to other credit cards and they do not discourage Card members from using
their Cards; (viii) that the third party vendor approved by American Express Card may visit the office of Merchant to assess and
document warmly welcoming performance of American Express Card; (ix) that the refund policies of Merchant for purchases on the
American Express Card must be at least as favourable as their refund policies for purchases on any other payment product and the
refund policy must be disclosed to Card members at the time of purchase and in compliance with applicable law; (viii) to abide by the
limitation on American Express Card’s liability set forth in this Agreement; (x) provides third-party beneficiary rights to American Express
Card with the ability to enforce the terms of the Merchant Agreement against the Merchant as necessary to protect the American
Express Card brand; (xi) provides American Express Card with the ability to enforce industry-specific requirements of which American
Express Card notifies the Service Provider in writing from time to time; (xii) to ensure that Merchant website does not contain libellous,
defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or profane material or any information that may cause harm to any individuals or to the American
Express Card brand; (xiii) to allow Service Provider and American Express Card to conduct audits, periodic oversight reviews, collect
documents, “know your customer” (“KYC”) and anti-money laundering (“AML”) checks in accordance with all applicable laws and
regulations and to enable American Express Card to satisfy its obligations under applicable local law and any other requirements
imposed by regulators; (xiv) Sponsored Merchants must not process any Charges that would be considered Prohibited Uses as outlined
in section 2d of the American Express Card Terms and Conditions.
g. The Merchant ensures that each of its owners, directors, employees and every other person working on its behalf, has not and shall not,
in connection with this Agreement or in connection with any other business Transactions involving American Express Card, make any
payment or transfer, or transfer anything of value, directly or indirectly, to: (i) any governmental official or employee (including
employees of a government corporation or public international organisation); (ii) any political party, official of a political party, or
candidate for public office; (iii) an intermediary for payment to any of the foregoing; or (iv) any other person or entity if such payment or
transfer would violate the laws of the country in which it is made or the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977.
4.17. If the Merchant is going store the confidential data of Customers on Merchant’s Site, then the Merchant shall be Payment Card Industry
Data Security Standard certified (PCIDSS) and shall continue to be certified as per the required regulations during the term of the
Agreement with respect to the security obligations pertaining to the Service Provider’s Services provided by the Service Provider. The
Merchant hereby undertakes and agrees it shall not store any confidential information of the Customers such as card details, Customer’s
confidential details etc. if it is not PCI DSS certified and shall further indemnify the Service Provider in case of any claim, proceeding, loss
or liability arising due to non-compliance of the same.
4.18. The Merchant undertakes to be abided by the Master Card Rules all the time, the detailed manual of the rules can be referred from the
link: (http://www.mastercard.com/us/merchant/pdf/BM-Entire_Manual_public.pdf ) this link is subject to change as per the amendments
made in manual of Master Card, uploaded from time to time. Important sections of the Master Card Rules that the Merchant undertakes
the following :
a. On an on-going basis, the Merchant to promptly provide the Service Provider with the current address of each of its offices, all “doing
business as” (DBA) names used by the Merchant, and a complete description of goods sold and services provided.
b. In the event of any inconsistency between any provision of the Merchant Agreement and the Standards (i.e. the Manual), the Standards
(the Manual) will govern.
c. The Service Provider may require any changes to Merchant’s Website or otherwise that it deems necessary or appropriate to ensure
that the Merchant remains in compliance with the Standards governing the use of the Marks.
d. This Merchant Agreement automatically and immediately stand terminated if the Master Card Corporation de-registers the Service
Provider or if the Facility Providers ceases to be a Customer for any reason or if such Acquirer fails to have a valid License with the
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activity deemed to be fraudulent or otherwise wrongful by the Service Provider, and Facility Providers.
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f. The Merchant acknowledges and agrees:
i. To comply with all applicable standards, as amended from time to time;
ii. That the Master Card Corporation is the sole and exclusive owner of the Master Card Marks;
iii. Not to contest the ownership of the Marks (of Master Card corporation ) for any reason;
iv. The Master Card Corporation may at any time, immediately and without advance notice, prohibit the Merchant from using any of the
Master Card Marks for any reason;
v. The Master Card Corporation has the right to enforce any provision of the Standards and to prohibit the Merchant and/or its Payment
Facilitator from engaging in any conduct the Corporation deems could injure or could create a risk of injury to the Master Card
Corporation, including injury to reputation, or that could adversely affect the integrity of the Interchange System, the Corporation’s
confidential information as defined in the Standards, or both; and
vi. The Merchant will not take any action that could interfere with or prevent the exercise of this right by the Corporation.
4.19. The Merchant undertakes to be abide by the rules and regulations formed by the governing authority in respect of the Anti-Money
Laundering Act 2002, Information Technology Act 2000 and subsequent amendments incorporated thereon and guidelines issued by the
Department of Regulation, RBI from time to time for Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT).
4.20. The Merchant hereby undertakes that, all the representations made herein are true and valid as per law of India. The Merchant represent
that the Merchant holds valid licenses, brand proofs, tie-up agreements from its business associates and the Merchant is legally
authorised to sale the Products and Services online through the Merchant’s Site.
4.21. The Merchant shall provide supporting documents to the Service Provider at the time of execution of this Agreement and upon change in
details provided under this Agreement. The Merchant shall provide the KYC documents to Service Provider on an interval of one year.
4.22. The Merchant shall keep updated on its Site all the policies including but not limited to privacy policy, refund and return policies,
Chargeback policy (I accept policy), Customer grievance redressal (including turnaround time for resolving queries), and other terms and
conditions pertaining to the Products and Services of the Merchant. The merchant provide a copy of these documents as and when
requested by the Service provider.
4.23. COVENANTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SERVICE PROVIDER
4A.1. Service Provider has received requisite authorisation/ license from RBI as per the said RBI Guideline and has right, power and
authority in full force to enter into this Agreement and perform its obligations.
4A.2. Service Provider is PCIDSS certified and has implemented applicable security measures as per the said RBI Guideline.
4A.3. Service Provider has appointed Nodal Officer responsible for regulatory and Customer grievance handling functions in accordance
with the said RBI Guidelines. The details of the Nodal officer are mentioned on our website link
https://www.ccavenue.com/customer-grievances-policy.jsp.
4A.4. Service Provider undertakes to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Combating Financing of
Terrorism (CFT) guidelines issued by the Department of Regulation, RBI, in their “Master Direction – Know Your Customer (KYC)
Directions” which are updated from time to time.
5. DATA PROTECTION :
5.1. All the data processed under this Agreement is subject to the Data Privacy Regulations under applicable laws. Merchant and Service
Provider shall be subject to and will comply with the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the Information Technology (Reasonable
Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011 as amended from time to time, and any other
applicable Laws restricting collection, use, disclosure, storage, processing and free movement of personal information (collectively, the
“Privacy Regulations”).
5.2. Service Provider its employees, contractors or agents may, in connection with this Agreement, collect Personal Information in relation to
Merchant (including Merchant Customers, employees and directors) Service Provider may process, use and disclose, transfer and store the
Merchant’s Customer’s personal information for purposes connected with this Agreement and otherwise for the purposes of its legitimate
business and business operations or as required by law. The Merchant shall co-operate with the Service Provider and Facility Providers in
respect of any issues arising out of a breach or potential breach of security in relation to the holding of confidential data.
5.3. Insofar as information provided, or to be provided, by Merchant to Service Provider includes the Personal Information of Customers,
Merchant represents and warrants that it has obtained sufficient informed prior consent in writing from each Customer to whom any
Personal Information relates to, in order for Service Provider to comply with applicable data privacy regulations and which allows Service
Provider to collect, use, disclose, process, transfer and store such information for the purposes specified in this Agreement and the
schedules, including in the circumstances described above, and will provide Service Provider with such consent as and when requested by
Service Provider.
6. FAIR USE OF SERVICE PROVIDER SERVICES:
6.1. The Merchant shall use the services of the Service Provider only for the purpose of receiving online payments against the Products/
Services approved by Service Provider. Using the services of Service Provider for any other purpose shall entitle the Service Provider to
take appropriate legal action and/or charge penalty suspend all the pay-outs to the Merchant.
6.2. The Merchant shall not submit for payment, any Transaction they know or ought to have known is illegal or misuse the services of Service
Provider for illegal gains including but not limited to illicit use of Credit Cards.
6.3. The Merchant in case of any fraud or ill intentional Transaction by Customer shall cooperate with Service Provider and forward all
necessary Transaction and Customer details to Service Provider at the earliest.
6.4. The Merchant data related to Transactions taking place through Service Providers’ payment gateway services shall be stored by Service
Provider for a maximum period of one year from the date of Transaction. Post completion of this one year the data will automatically get
deleted from Service Providers’ database. Service Providershall not be liable to produce the data that is older than one year.
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Provider shall not be liable to pay any interest upon the suspended pay-outs during or after the pendency of the inquiry. The Service
Provider reserve right to charge appropriate penalty to the Merchant in case of breach of terms of this Agreement. The Service Provider
may adjust such penalty amount from the next pay out of Customer Charge. In the event of no balance in the Merchant account, the
Merchant shall make the payment of such penalty amount; failure to make payment of the penalty amount will attract interest over the
penalty as per the prevailing interest rates. Breach by Customer: In case the Customer of Merchant commits fraud against the Merchant
using Service Provider’s services, the Service Provider in such cases shall be entitled to suspend the pay-outs of the disputed amount till
the issue is resolved between Merchant and Customer. The Service Provider shall not be liable to pay any interest upon the suspended
pay-outs during or after the pendency of the inquiry.
6.6. Authorizations: The Merchant shall obtain Authorisation from the Service Provider, before accepting any Customer Order. This process of
Authorization is an automatic process that takes place in real-time.
7. CHARGEBACK AND REFUND
7.1. The Merchant agrees that payment made in respect of any Customer Order, in respect of which the Customer or Issuing Bank raises a
claim, demand, dispute or Chargeback on the Service Provider or the Facility Providers for any reason whatsoever or in case of Refund
initiated by the Merchant shall be the financial responsibility of the Merchant. The Chargeback or Refund shall be processed as per the set
processes of Facility Providers and Service Provider. Once the Chargeback is received and the Merchant is ordered to make payment of
the Chargeback amount or in case of Refund once the Refund requested is initiated by the Merchant, the Merchant shall make the payment
of the Chargeback/ Refund amount as the case may be without any demur or protest, dispute or delay. The Merchant agrees that it shall
initiate Refund only within Tr i.e time period fixed by Merchant or 90 days from the date of Transaction whichever earlier. However,
Merchant agrees that it shall not be allowed to initiate Refund on the date of Transaction if it has opted for Express Settlement Facility. The
Merchant shall make payment of Chargeback amount within 48 hours from the time of receiving the request for making payment of
Chargeback and or in case of Refund immediately at time of initiating the Refund. The Merchant hereby agrees that all Refunds and
Chargebacks shall be the sole responsibility of the Merchant and Service Provider shall not be liable for any claims or disputes which may
arise in connection with such Refunds or Chargebacks to the Merchant or its Merchants. The Service Provider shall have right to withhold
the payment in case of anticipated Chargebacks or excessive Chargebacks raised against Merchant The Merchant agrees to indemnify
Service Provider in respect of any claims, disputes, penalties, cost and expenses arising directly or indirectly in relation Refunds or
Chargebacks for all Transaction initiated and instructed through the Merchant’s Site.
7.2. If Service Provider and/or the Facility Providers determine that the Merchant and/or its business associates registered with Service Provider
are incurring an excessive amount of Chargebacks or Refunds, Service Provider may establish controls or conditions governing the
Transactions contemplated under this Agreement, including without limitation, by (a) establishing new processing fees, (b) by requesting a
reserve in an amount reasonably determined by Service Provider to cover anticipated Chargebacks and Refunds (c) by asking the
Merchant to first make payment of the Chargeback amount / Refund amount and then only process the Chargeback and Refund request.(d)
delaying or suspending pay-outs to Merchant, (e) block the Refund or refuse to process (f) adjusting the Chargeback and Refund amount
from the Customer Charge payable to Merchant and (g) imposing penalty amount if any charged by Facility Providers (h) charge interest
over the Chargeback and Refund amount (i) terminating or suspending the Service Provider Services.
7.3. The Merchant hereby authorises the Service Provider to appropriate the Merchant’s current balance amounts with the Service Provider to
the extent of the aforesaid Chargeback and Refund and any other moneys due to the Service Provider by the Merchant in terms of this
Agreement. If there is insufficient funds available therein; the Merchant shall within 48 (forty eight) hours of finding out negative balance or
insufficient balance in his Merchant Accounting and Reporting System (M.A.R.S) Interface and/or on receipt of the e-mail from the Service
Provider and/ or claim from the Service Provider undertakes forthwith without any demur, protest, dispute or delay, to pay to the Service
Provider, the amount of the Chargeback/dispute/Refund to the extent to which such funds proves inadequate. Without prejudice to any
other of Service Provider’s rights and remedies, in the event that the Merchant does not make any payment to Service Provider by its due
time (within 48 hours) or on demand as required under this Agreement, the Service Provider shall be entitled to charge interest on such
overdue amount upon completion of the said 48 (Forty Eight) hours (as the case may be) until the date of payment in full, at the rate of 2-4
% per month, solely as per Service Provider’s discretion. It is agreed that any claim or dispute arising out of non-payment of Refund /
insufficient balance shall be the absolute liability of the Merchant AND the Merchant hereby indemnifies the Service Provider and the
Facility Providers against any claims, dispute initiated by any Customers/ Facility Provider or any third party / authority enforced on the
Service Provider, Acquiring Banks/ Card Schemes/ payment service provider etc. for the non-refund of such Transactions.
7.4. Credit Facility on Refunds: Since the Merchant will not be allowed to initiate Refunds of amount greater than the balance amount held with
Service Provider; The Merchant may face Refund related issues from the Customers such as, “the Refunds were blocked by Service
Provider due to insufficient or no balance amount in Merchant account held with Service Provider”. In order to avoid such Refund issues
and to continue the smooth Refund process, the Merchant may avail the credit facility on Refunds where in the Service Provider at its sole
discretion may allow the Merchant to initiate Refunds of amount greater than the balance amount available with Service Provider. This
facility will allow additional time not exceeding 7 (Seven) days to the Merchant to arrange for funds against Refunds so initiated. To avail the
credit facility the Merchant shall give separate written instructions to Service Provider, Service Provider on its sole discretion may grant the
credit facility on Refund to the Merchant. The Merchant agree that the repayment of credit facility on Refund shall be governed by all the
sub clauses (7.1), (7.2) and (7.3) above and also by the special terms and conditions formed by Service Provider for credit facility on
Refund.
7.5. Customer Grievance Redressal and Dispute Management Framework which includes Customer grievances redressal and turnaround time
for dispute resolution, dispute resolution mechanism and reconciliation of payments by Service Provider is mentioned in Annexure B.
7.6. The Merchant agrees that Refunds of failed Transactions are dealt as per the process mentioned in Customer Grievance Redressal and
Dispute Management Framework mentioned in Annexure B.
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As provided by Merchant from time to time. Name: Infibeam Avenues Limited, Address: Plaza
Asiad, Second Floor, Station Road, Santacruz
(West), Mumbai 400 054. India.
Fax: 91-22-26480772,91-22-67425542 Tel. 022-
67425555
Email: [email protected] ATTN:- Mr.
Vishwas Patel
b. Notice will be deemed given : In the case of hand delivery or registered mail or e-mail or overnight courier upon written
acknowledgement of receipt by an officer or other duly authorized employee, agent or representative of the receiving party;
c. Nothing in the aforesaid clauses shall affect any communication given by way of the internet or other electronic medium as otherwise
provided in this Agreement for the purpose of rendering the services.
17. ARBITRATION:
- The parties will endeavour to settle amicably by mutual discussion any disputes, differences or claims whatsoever related to this agreement.
Failing such amicable settlement the dispute shall be settled by arbitration. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 (and any subsequent
amendment to this act) shall govern the arbitration proceedings. The arbitration shall be held in Mumbai, India. The language of arbitration
shall be English and the arbitral award shall be final and binding on both the parties. The arbitration proceedings will be held before the sole
Arbitrator appointed by mutual consent of both the parties. Any arbitration award will be final and binding on the parties, and judgment there on
may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. This Agreement (including its jurisdiction clause) shall be governed by, construed and
take effect in accordance with the laws of India. The courts of Mumbai shall alone have jurisdiction in all matters.
ANNEXURE A *:
The Merchant shall pay to the Service Provider following Non- Refundable charges per Transaction:
Payment Mode Start-up Pro Account Charges
TDR for Debit Card (MasterCard, Visa and Maestro) 2%+Taxes as applicable
Domestic Transaction
TDR for American Express / Amex EMI & Diners Club 4%+Taxes as applicable
Card Transactions
TDR for MasterCard & Visa Credit / Debit Cards 3%+Taxes as applicable
Transaction (International) - Subject to Bank Approval
Platform Fees for UPI and Rupay Debit Card 2%+Taxes as applicable
Transaction
ANNEXURE B *:
Disposal of Complaints
Customer enquiries about his Transaction We provide all the details like order no, PA 24 hours
status. reference number, date of Transaction, amount (for queries received between 10 am-7 pm
of Transaction, Merchant Site/URL and status Monday to Sunday)
of Transaction.
Transaction successful, but no response from We provide all the information to the Customer, 24 hours
Merchant. including the Merchant details. Additionally, we (for queries received between 10 am-7 pm
forward the same mail to the Merchant Monday to Sunday)
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his concerned bank.
Refund not reflecting in Customer account We recheck funds status and update the 24 hrs to 48 hrs (working days) post receiving
customer OR raise the issue with the update from concerned entity.
concerned bank. The updates received are
shared with the Customer.
Amount debited but Transaction not found We search for the Transaction with details like: 24 hours
• email id used while performing the (for queries received between 10 am-7 pm
Transaction Monday to Sunday)
• date and amount of Transaction,
• and if still not found, then ask Customers to
contact their concerned bank for more details or
other reference nos.
Customers can raise dispute on shipped orders for the following reasons:
- Transaction amount is different
- Request is made for the copy of the Receipt
- Merchandise is defective or damaged
- Alleged fraudulent Transaction investigated by the Acquiring Bank
- Multiple charges for the same order
- Merchant agreed to issue refund on merchandise returned or for any other reason
- Merchandise not as advertised
- Customer did not engage in or authorize this Transaction
- Merchandise has not been delivered
- Cardholder is not in possession of the card used for the Transaction
- Service not received from Merchant
- Order was cancelled
- Customer paid for order by other payment method
Only the Customer or CCAvenue can raise disputes. The Merchant can view all disputes raised on their Transactions
in their Disputes Listing Page. They can also provide updates as well as submit required documents for the dispute
via a 3-way messaging facility between CCAvenue, the Merchant and the Customer.
Supporting Documents
CCAvenue may request for a set of supporting documents for cases that need further investigation. These documents
could include the Authorization Letter from the, Cancellation Policy, etc. Merchants can respond by attaching the
required documents with a clarification message using our messaging facility. This can be uploaded from the Dispute
Management module.
Dispute Resolution
CCAvenue team can either close the dispute in the Merchant’s favour or allow Chargeback to the Customer. The Dispute status can be: ‘Open’,
‘Chargeback’, ‘Closed’ and ‘Open and Hold.’
After the dispute status has been set to ‘Open,’ or ‘Open and Hold,’ CCAvenue can update its status to ‘Closed’ or ‘Chargeback’. If the open dispute
is confirmed as Chargeback, CCAvenue will debit the dispute amount in the Customer’s favour and set the status as ‘Chargeback’. Similarly, if the
open dispute is closed in favour of the Merchant, CCAvenue will update the dispute status as ‘Closed’.
CCAvenue designates the status as ‘Open and Hold’ for disputed cases that need further investigation and sets the amount and end date for
resolution. The amount set aside for resolution at this stage cannot be greater than the disputed amount.
CCAvenue has a very stringent mechanism to deal with refunds of failed Transactions (Transactions charged to
Customer but not returned to Payment Aggregator and in turn to Merchant, hence no services are rendered). As per
Merchant's line of business they can opt to configure their account to reverse such Transactions or get it updated as a
successful Transaction post reconciliation, and provide services.
We can reconcile dropped Transactions in 2 ways:
a. We initiate server-to-server API calls with banks on periodic basis throughout the day to fetch the status of Transactions. Such cases are sent to
bank for reversal on Tp (Date of Transaction) +1 Business day.
b. For banks who do not provide the API-based reconciliation mechanism, we reconcile with the offline files received from the banks the next
working day. Thus refunds for such Transactions are sent the next day post reconciliation or T (Date of reconciliation) + 1 Business day post
reconciliation.
Refunds are then processed into the Customer accounts by banks, as per their standard processes.