How do you detect Credit card type based on number?
I'm trying to figure out how to detect the type of credit card based purely on its number. Does anyone know of a definitive, reliable way to find this?
Solution 1:
The credit/debit card number is referred to as a PAN, or Primary Account Number. The first six digits of the PAN are taken from the IIN, or Issuer Identification Number, belonging to the issuing bank (IINs were previously known as BIN — Bank Identification Numbers — so you may see references to that terminology in some documents). These six digits are subject to an international standard, ISO/IEC 7812, and can be used to determine the type of card from the number.
Unfortunately the actual ISO/IEC 7812 database is not publicly available, however, there are unofficial lists, both commercial and free, including on Wikipedia.
Anyway, to detect the type from the number, you can use a regular expression like the ones below: Credit for original expressions
Visa: ^4[0-9]{6,}$ Visa card numbers start with a 4.
MasterCard: ^5[1-5][0-9]{5,}|222[1-9][0-9]{3,}|22[3-9][0-9]{4,}|2[3-6][0-9]{5,}|27[01][0-9]{4,}|2720[0-9]{3,}$ Before 2016, MasterCard numbers start with the numbers 51 through 55, but this will only detect MasterCard credit cards; there are other cards issued using the MasterCard system that do not fall into this IIN range. In 2016, they will add numbers in the range (222100-272099).
American Express: ^3[47][0-9]{5,}$ American Express card numbers start with 34 or 37.
Diners Club: ^3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{4,}$ Diners Club card numbers begin with 300 through 305, 36 or 38. There are Diners Club cards that begin with 5 and have 16 digits. These are a joint venture between Diners Club and MasterCard and should be processed like a MasterCard.
Discover: ^6(?:011|5[0-9]{2})[0-9]{3,}$ Discover card numbers begin with 6011 or 65.
JCB: ^(?:2131|1800|35[0-9]{3})[0-9]{3,}$ JCB cards begin with 2131, 1800 or 35.
Unfortunately, there are a number of card types processed with the MasterCard system that do not live in MasterCard’s IIN range (numbers starting 51...55); the most important case is that of Maestro cards, many of which have been issued from other banks’ IIN ranges and so are located all over the number space. As a result, it may be best to assume that any card that is not of some other type you accept must be a MasterCard.
Important: card numbers do vary in length; for instance, Visa has in the past issued cards with 13 digit PANs and cards with 16 digit PANs. Visa’s documentation currently indicates that it may issue or may have issued numbers with between 12 and 19 digits. Therefore, you should not check the length of the card number, other than to verify that it has at least 7 digits (for a complete IIN plus one check digit, which should match the value predicted by the Luhn algorithm).
One further hint: before processing a cardholder PAN, strip any whitespace and punctuation characters from the input. Why? Because it’s typically much easier to enter the digits in groups, similar to how they’re displayed on the front of an actual credit card, i.e.
4444 4444 4444 4444
is much easier to enter correctly than
4444444444444444
There’s really no benefit in chastising the user because they’ve entered characters you don't expect here.
This also implies making sure that your entry fields have room for at least 24 characters, otherwise users who enter spaces will run out of room. I’d recommend that you make the field wide enough to display 32 characters and allow up to 64; that gives plenty of headroom for expansion.
Here's an image that gives a little more insight:
UPDATE (2016): Mastercard is to implement new BIN ranges starting Ach Payment.
Solution 2:
In javascript:
function detectCardType(number) {
var re = {
electron: /^(4026|417500|4405|4508|4844|4913|4917)\d+$/,
maestro: /^(5018|5020|5038|5612|5893|6304|6759|6761|6762|6763|0604|6390)\d+$/,
dankort: /^(5019)\d+$/,
interpayment: /^(636)\d+$/,
unionpay: /^(62|88)\d+$/,
visa: /^4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?$/,
mastercard: /^5[1-5][0-9]{14}$/,
amex: /^3[47][0-9]{13}$/,
diners: /^3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}$/,
discover: /^6(?:011|5[0-9]{2})[0-9]{12}$/,
jcb: /^(?:2131|1800|35\d{3})\d{11}$/
}
for(var key in re) {
if(re[key].test(number)) {
return key
}
}
}
Unit test:
describe('CreditCard', function() {
describe('#detectCardType', function() {
var cards = {
'8800000000000000': 'UNIONPAY',
'4026000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4175000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4405000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4508000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4844000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4913000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'4917000000000000': 'ELECTRON',
'5019000000000000': 'DANKORT',
'5018000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'5020000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'5038000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'5612000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'5893000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6304000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6759000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6761000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6762000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6763000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'0604000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'6390000000000000': 'MAESTRO',
'3528000000000000': 'JCB',
'3589000000000000': 'JCB',
'3529000000000000': 'JCB',
'6360000000000000': 'INTERPAYMENT',
'4916338506082832': 'VISA',
'4556015886206505': 'VISA',
'4539048040151731': 'VISA',
'4024007198964305': 'VISA',
'4716175187624512': 'VISA',
'5280934283171080': 'MASTERCARD',
'5456060454627409': 'MASTERCARD',
'5331113404316994': 'MASTERCARD',
'5259474113320034': 'MASTERCARD',
'5442179619690834': 'MASTERCARD',
'6011894492395579': 'DISCOVER',
'6011388644154687': 'DISCOVER',
'6011880085013612': 'DISCOVER',
'6011652795433988': 'DISCOVER',
'6011375973328347': 'DISCOVER',
'345936346788903': 'AMEX',
'377669501013152': 'AMEX',
'373083634595479': 'AMEX',
'370710819865268': 'AMEX',
'371095063560404': 'AMEX'
};
Object.keys(cards).forEach(function(number) {
it('should detect card ' + number + ' as ' + cards[number], function() {
Basket.detectCardType(number).should.equal(cards[number]);
});
});
});
});
Solution 3:
Updated: 15th June 2016 (as an ultimate solution currently)
Please note that I even give vote up for the one is top voted, but to make it clear these are the regexps actually works i tested it with thousands of real BIN codes. The most important is to use start strings (^) otherwise it will give false results in real world!
JCB ^(?:2131|1800|35)[0-9]{0,}$ Start with: 2131, 1800, 35 (3528-3589)
American Express ^3[47][0-9]{0,}$ Start with: 34, 37
Diners Club ^3(?:0[0-59]{1}|[689])[0-9]{0,}$ Start with: 300-305, 309, 36, 38-39
Visa ^4[0-9]{0,}$ Start with: 4
MasterCard ^(5[1-5]|222[1-9]|22[3-9]|2[3-6]|27[01]|2720)[0-9]{0,}$ Start with: 2221-2720, 51-55
Maestro ^(5[06789]|6)[0-9]{0,}$ Maestro always growing in the range: 60-69, started with / not something else, but starting 5 must be encoded as mastercard anyway. Maestro cards must be detected in the end of the code because some others has in the range of 60-69. Please look at the code.
Discover ^(6011|65|64[4-9]|62212[6-9]|6221[3-9]|622[2-8]|6229[01]|62292[0-5])[0-9]{0,}$ Discover quite difficult to code, start with: 6011, 622126-622925, 644-649, 65
In javascript I use this function. This is good when u assign it to an onkeyup event and it give result as soon as possible.
function cc_brand_id(cur_val) {
// the regular expressions check for possible matches as you type, hence the OR operators based on the number of chars
// regexp string length {0} provided for soonest detection of beginning of the card numbers this way it could be used for BIN CODE detection also
//JCB
jcb_regex = new RegExp('^(?:2131|1800|35)[0-9]{0,}$'); //2131, 1800, 35 (3528-3589)
// American Express
amex_regex = new RegExp('^3[47][0-9]{0,}$'); //34, 37
// Diners Club
diners_regex = new RegExp('^3(?:0[0-59]{1}|[689])[0-9]{0,}$'); //300-305, 309, 36, 38-39
// Visa
visa_regex = new RegExp('^4[0-9]{0,}$'); //4
// MasterCard
mastercard_regex = new RegExp('^(5[1-5]|222[1-9]|22[3-9]|2[3-6]|27[01]|2720)[0-9]{0,}$'); //2221-2720, 51-55
maestro_regex = new RegExp('^(5[06789]|6)[0-9]{0,}$'); //always growing in the range: 60-69, started with / not something else, but starting 5 must be encoded as mastercard anyway
//Discover
discover_regex = new RegExp('^(6011|65|64[4-9]|62212[6-9]|6221[3-9]|622[2-8]|6229[01]|62292[0-5])[0-9]{0,}$');
////6011, 622126-622925, 644-649, 65
// get rid of anything but numbers
cur_val = cur_val.replace(/\D/g, '');
// checks per each, as their could be multiple hits
//fix: ordering matter in detection, otherwise can give false results in rare cases
var sel_brand = "unknown";
if (cur_val.match(jcb_regex)) {
sel_brand = "jcb";
} else if (cur_val.match(amex_regex)) {
sel_brand = "amex";
} else if (cur_val.match(diners_regex)) {
sel_brand = "diners_club";
} else if (cur_val.match(visa_regex)) {
sel_brand = "visa";
} else if (cur_val.match(mastercard_regex)) {
sel_brand = "mastercard";
} else if (cur_val.match(discover_regex)) {
sel_brand = "discover";
} else if (cur_val.match(maestro_regex)) {
if (cur_val[0] == '5') { //started 5 must be mastercard
sel_brand = "mastercard";
} else {
sel_brand = "maestro"; //maestro is all 60-69 which is not something else, thats why this condition in the end
}
}
return sel_brand;
}
Here you can play with it:
http://jsfiddle.net/upN3L/69/
For PHP use this function, this detects some sub VISA/MC cards too:
/**
* Obtain a brand constant from a PAN
*
* @param string $pan Credit card number
* @param bool $include_sub_types Include detection of sub visa brands
* @return string
*/
public static function getCardBrand($pan, $include_sub_types = false)
{
//maximum length is not fixed now, there are growing number of CCs has more numbers in length, limiting can give false negatives atm
//these regexps accept not whole cc numbers too
//visa
$visa_regex = "/^4[0-9]{0,}$/";
$vpreca_regex = "/^428485[0-9]{0,}$/";
$postepay_regex = "/^(402360|402361|403035|417631|529948){0,}$/";
$cartasi_regex = "/^(432917|432930|453998)[0-9]{0,}$/";
$entropay_regex = "/^(406742|410162|431380|459061|533844|522093)[0-9]{0,}$/";
$o2money_regex = "/^(422793|475743)[0-9]{0,}$/";
// MasterCard
$mastercard_regex = "/^(5[1-5]|222[1-9]|22[3-9]|2[3-6]|27[01]|2720)[0-9]{0,}$/";
$maestro_regex = "/^(5[06789]|6)[0-9]{0,}$/";
$kukuruza_regex = "/^525477[0-9]{0,}$/";
$yunacard_regex = "/^541275[0-9]{0,}$/";
// American Express
$amex_regex = "/^3[47][0-9]{0,}$/";
// Diners Club
$diners_regex = "/^3(?:0[0-59]{1}|[689])[0-9]{0,}$/";
//Discover
$discover_regex = "/^(6011|65|64[4-9]|62212[6-9]|6221[3-9]|622[2-8]|6229[01]|62292[0-5])[0-9]{0,}$/";
//JCB
$jcb_regex = "/^(?:2131|1800|35)[0-9]{0,}$/";
//ordering matter in detection, otherwise can give false results in rare cases
if (preg_match($jcb_regex, $pan)) {
return "jcb";
}
if (preg_match($amex_regex, $pan)) {
return "amex";
}
if (preg_match($diners_regex, $pan)) {
return "diners_club";
}
//sub visa/mastercard cards
if ($include_sub_types) {
if (preg_match($vpreca_regex, $pan)) {
return "v-preca";
}
if (preg_match($postepay_regex, $pan)) {
return "postepay";
}
if (preg_match($cartasi_regex, $pan)) {
return "cartasi";
}
if (preg_match($entropay_regex, $pan)) {
return "entropay";
}
if (preg_match($o2money_regex, $pan)) {
return "o2money";
}
if (preg_match($kukuruza_regex, $pan)) {
return "kukuruza";
}
if (preg_match($yunacard_regex, $pan)) {
return "yunacard";
}
}
if (preg_match($visa_regex, $pan)) {
return "visa";
}
if (preg_match($mastercard_regex, $pan)) {
return "mastercard";
}
if (preg_match($discover_regex, $pan)) {
return "discover";
}
if (preg_match($maestro_regex, $pan)) {
if ($pan[0] == '5') { //started 5 must be mastercard
return "mastercard";
}
return "maestro"; //maestro is all 60-69 which is not something else, thats why this condition in the end
}
return "unknown"; //unknown for this system
}
Solution 4:
public string GetCreditCardType(string CreditCardNumber)
{
Regex regVisa = new Regex("^4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?$");
Regex regMaster = new Regex("^5[1-5][0-9]{14}$");
Regex regExpress = new Regex("^3[47][0-9]{13}$");
Regex regDiners = new Regex("^3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}$");
Regex regDiscover = new Regex("^6(?:011|5[0-9]{2})[0-9]{12}$");
Regex regJCB = new Regex("^(?:2131|1800|35\\d{3})\\d{11}$");
if (regVisa.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "VISA";
else if (regMaster.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "MASTER";
else if (regExpress.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "AEXPRESS";
else if (regDiners.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "DINERS";
else if (regDiscover.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "DISCOVERS";
else if (regJCB.IsMatch(CreditCardNumber))
return "JCB";
else
return "invalid";
}
Here is the function to check Credit card type using Regex , c#