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The Importance of Stability in a Payment Partner: An Often Overlooked Quality
When you find yourself evaluating payment processing partners, the focus often falls on ease of integration, technology or customer pricing. While those factors are undoubtedly important, there is another quality you should search for in your payment partner – stability. The Value of Consistency in a Rapidly Changing Industry In...
Embedded Payments
Ten Things that Impact Your Interchange Rate and What You Can Do About Them
Interchange fees represent approximately 80 percent of the charges a business pays to process credit and debit card transactions. These fees are set by the card brands: Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express and, unless your business is processing billions of dollars each year, interchange rates are non-negotiable. While you...
Merchant Payments
Does PCI Compliance Matter to Software Providers with Payment Integration?
Payment integration offers a streamlined customer experience but also introduces PCI compliance responsibilities to the software provider. The level of compliance required depends on how the software handles cardholder data. Utilizing a trusted payment partner, implementing encryption and tokenization, and following security best practices will help minimize the compliance burden.
Embedded Payments
What Is a Payment Gateway and How Does it Work?
With commerce increasingly moving to digital platforms, businesses selling via electronic channels must be able to easily and securely accept online/card-not-present (CNP) payments. This capability is enabled by a crucial piece of technology: the payment gateway—an essential link that connects merchants, customers and payment processors to enable CNP transactions.
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How Do You Know if Your Payment Processor Truly Loves You?
Valentine’s Day is a time for love, connection, and appreciating the important relationships in your life – and that includes your business relationships! While it might not be a romantic connection, a strong partnership with your payment processor is crucial to your business’s health.
Merchant Payments
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Looking for the Best Credit Card Processing Rates?
We all want to make sure we’re getting the most value for our money. Whether we’re at the grocery store, car dealer, or retailer, getting a good deal makes us and our bank accounts feel good. It’s no different with credit card processing. We all want the best credit card...
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5 Tips to Identify a Fake or Fraudulent Website
Like clockwork, fraudulent actors frequently pop up whenever a crisis arises, and the recent California wildfires are no exception. Recently, the threat of fraud targeting both victims and good Samaritans of the wildfires has spiked so dramatically that Visa even issued a scam alert to educate people on what to...
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