Abstract: A Payment Authorization and Information Device for users of credit cards and other forms of credit receives billing information by tape or the like from the provider of the credit cards or from any such provider of credit. In the preferred embodiment, such information, encoded and identified as to the particular user, is broadcast during the retrace time of a television broadcast signal. A user has a receiver that is tuned to the particular channel in which the credit information is broadcast. A Payment Authorization and Information Device at the user's location is enabled to read the billing information into memory and tell the user that he has been billed. The Payment Authorization and Information Device is connected by a modem to the telephone line to signal the provider or the Information Center that the information has been received.