Has anyone dipped a Mastercard but transaction shows as a check?

My employee at a retail location sold merchandise and accepted a Mastercard as payment. When reviewing the transaction history, the transaction shows as a check payment, which we don't accept as payment. Square says this cannot happen but the employee swears it did. 

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Hi @Makena.  In nearly 12 years with Square, I’ve never heard of this happening.  What you are told is correct.  If a card was dipped and the employee hit the correct button on the POS, it would show up as a card transaction.  The only way it could show up as a check transaction is if the employee hit the Check payment option on the POS.  I won’t pass judgement about your employee, but something is definitely not right here.  And if this was even a remote possibility, it would have made a definite splash here if it had 

 

You said you don’t accept checks?  Have you disabled that payment option on your POS?

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Thank you for your reply. We have disabled the check option now.

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