Credit Card Types
From: Double click on Credit Card Type in either the Customer Form or the Payments Form .

Enter a short, unique credit card name and an input mask. The input mask is used to control which characters are entered, and which are automatically inserted. A typical credit card input mask looks like this: 0000\-0000\-0000\-0000;0;_. It is separated into three sections, separated by semicolons:

See Form Help for information on how the form works.

Section 1 : Describes the input mask. 0 means you can enter any digit, the entry is required, and the +/- signs are not allowed. The \- means that the '-' character is automatically inserted at that location. The '\' tells the program that the following character is to be taken literally; it is not a control code.

Section 2 : if 0, the separator characters are stored in the data; if 1 they are not stored. Always set this to 0 for a credit card input mask.

Section 3 : the character that is displayed in an empty field; in this example the last semicolon followed by the '_' character causes an empty field to look like this:
____-____-____-____
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