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Merchants Prepare for Over $40 Billion in Returns [2023 Update]
Not everyone is always thrilled with their Christmas gifts, and now that we can shop for anything we want with relative ease and next to no effort, so too can we return items. Yea...
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Google Comes Under Scrutiny for Acquisition of Cloud Data Science Firm
Just one week before Christmas, the Competition and Markets Authority of the United Kingdom made an announcement that may have played a part on shares of Alphabet, the parent compa...
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Contactless Payments on the Rise [2023 Update]
When we cast our eye across the pond and towards the rest of the world, we start to notice some very different point-of-sale (PoS) consumer behavior. In somewhere around 25 of our...
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Former PayPal COO is New Google Commerce Chief
Back in June of this year, PayPal made the announcement that COO Bill Ready would be stepping away from his long tenure at the online giant, and we now know precisely why. This com...
Read MoreTips to Grow Your Merchant Services Agent or ISO Business
In the competitive world of merchant services ISO, you need to leverage every aspect of your skillset, your schedule, and your merchant servicer to grow your business. Independent ...
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How Should I Choose a Credit Card Processor for My Restaurant?
Because restaurants operate on thin profit margins, restaurateurs must leverage every payment type to attract every type of customer while simultaneously leveraging the support of ...
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Five Things to Consider When Switching Merchant Services Providers
Because of the complexity of credit card processing, it’s hard to know when or if to switch merchant services providers. With the added confusion of automatically renewed contrac...
Read MoreWhat is a Payment Gateway?
A Payment Gateway is the interface between consumers and the merchant acquiring bank that processes a payment during a consumer transaction, whether the transaction be online or in...
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How the New Colorado Digital Driver's License Works
The United States is one of about a dozen countries without a mandatory national identification document; for this reason, driver's licenses, state ID cards, passports, and even so...
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