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What Is Interchange Plus Pricing?

What Is Interchange Plus Pricing? Accepting credit cards increases customer convenience and helps increase your sales, but the cost of merchant services can be a bit confusing a...

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Protect Your Business from Credit Card Skimmers

Protect Your Business from Credit Card Skimmers Each year, companies sign on to take advantage of merchant services offered for credit card processing. Skimmers are quickly beco...

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How Mobile Credit Card Processing Effects Small Business [2023 Update]

Gone are the days where businesses must rely solely on traditional terminal solutions to manage customer payments. Now business has more options than ever to complete customer tran...

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Should you Pay Credit Card Fees or Surcharge Your Customers?

Businesses often face a double-edged sword when accepting credit cards. Credit card processing comes with fees that can eat into your profits, but defraying the cost with a surchar...

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eBay to Discontinue PayPal as Main Processor

After 15 years, the eBay-PayPal partnership is coming to an end. The e-commerce giant has announced that it will replace the payment processing company it purchased in 2002 for $...

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Importance of Network Security - The OnePlus Credit Card Hack

As a merchant, network security should be a top concern when it comes to credit card processing. The most vulnerable place for credit card data is on the merchant side of the tra...

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What Mobile-First Shopping Will Mean for the Retail Industry in 2018

When considering the trends that have been shaping the retail industry over the last few years, it is easy to infer that 2018 will be the year of mobile first shopping. Online re...

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Visa Ends Signature Requirements for Chip Cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay

Beginning in April, Visa will no longer require signatures for contactless payments and EMV chip cards. This means North American users of Samsung Pay, Google Pay (previously An...

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Android Pay and Google Wallet Merge Creating Google Pay

Android Pay is no more. On January 8, Google announced that it will combine Google Wallet and Android Pay under a single brand called Google Pay. This move will merge all of the wa...

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