Credit card information that is entered via terminal keypad or keyboard instead of swiping the card through the card reader.

The submission of payment information for a transaction by keying the customer's payment information into a hardware terminal or Virtual Terminal. For example, any transaction that is not submitted by allowing an organization or business to “swipe,” or read, payment information from a magnetic stripe on a credit, debit or stored-value card; or transactions that take place by physically keying in payment information using a keypad. Additionally, for Web merchants a manual transaction might be considered any transaction that is not entered at their e-commerce Web site by a customer.

Also known as key-entered; manual entry is a transaction where the credit card number, expiration date, and transaction information are entered by hand into a terminal or computer.