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Help! My Credit Card Funding is Under a Risk Hold

Help! My Credit Card Funding is Under a Risk Hold

Cash flow produced by sales are the essential focus of all small business owners. Whether you are selling baked goods, providing a laundry service, or caring for patients in a small family medical pra...

Eliminate Your Costs to Accept Credit Cards With Cash Discount

Eliminate Your Costs to Accept Credit Cards With Cash Discount

Cash Discount is now commonly used interchangeably to describe surcharge, convenience fee, and service fee. So what’s the difference and how does each work? Although each program has its differences, ...

Why It’s Time to Evaluate Leaving Your Big-Box Payment Company

Why It’s Time to Evaluate Leaving Your Big-Box Payment Company

There’s a reason why they’ve simplified their pricing at 2.9% and $0.30 per transaction—each swipe potentially earns them a substantial amount of money. In order to understand exactly how they’re fill...

Why Integrated Payments Deserve a Spot on Your Roadmap

Why Integrated Payments Deserve a Spot on Your Roadmap

Or is it time to reevaluate your existing integrated payment partnership? With near-constant industry M&A activity that can dramatically change your level of support and hardware availability shor...

Is Accepting Cryptocurrency Right for Your Business?

Is Accepting Cryptocurrency Right for Your Business?

The good news is cryptocurrency has entered mainstream financial markets and is no longer the complete unknown it once was. For now at least, it looks like cryptocurrency is here to stay.

Why Integrated Payment Partnerships Go Sour

Why Integrated Payment Partnerships Go Sour

Poor Customer Support As any ISV whose been burned by lack of support can tell you, top-notch customer service is as important as the technology behind any integrated payment solution. It’s critical t...

How the Microchip Shortage Affects Credit Card Payments

How the Microchip Shortage Affects Credit Card Payments

Headlines about the semiconductor chip shortage are hard to ignore. The imbalance of supply and demand is impacting all aspects of consumers’ lives, from the availability of electronics to the product...

Shifting Card Acceptance Costs to Consumers

Shifting Card Acceptance Costs to Consumers

Card processing fees are an unavoidable cost for most businesses. Despite the convenience that payment cards provide to customers, they can also impose substantial costs on underlying businesses.

How a credit card payment works (in 7 easy steps)

How a credit card payment works (in 7 easy steps)

Dipping a payment card into a credit card reader or submitting payment information online are second nature to consumers. But what happens after that card information is captured? It triggers a sequen...

Magnetic stripes are retiring. What does that mean for businesses?

Magnetic stripes are retiring. What does that mean for businesses?

For most consumers, it’s second nature to dip or tap a payment card at a terminal to complete a sale. But not too long ago, payments were all about the swipe.

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