Shva is an organization representing a consortium of the banks and credit card companies in Israel.  It is Israel’s credit card central transaction service provider, and all credit card transactions pass through it.  Shva has issued its’ latest version of the terminal specification.  This specification is called Ashra’it ’96.  All new terminals and POS units in Israel must conform to this specification.  The latest version was released on January, 1998, and there have been several updates since.

The following is a partial list of the credit cards dealt with by Aurora programs.