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Merchant Account Setup: Steps to Take
If you’re eager to start processing credit card transactions for your business, you’ll need a merchant account. It's essentially a line of credit that enables a business to process credit and debit card transactions.
Christina Lavingia
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EMV Fallback And Putting Your Business at Risk
Let’s paint two seemingly harmless scenarios for you. A customer comes into your business and attempts to pay for a purchase with an EMV chip card.
Christina Lavingia
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Interchange Plus Pricing vs. Flat
For starters, there are more rate plans for your business to consider than just Flat and Interchange plus pricing. That said, comparing too many options at once can be overwhelming; therefore, we’re going to focus on only two plans to simplify things a bit.
Christina Lavingia
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PCI History: How It Came to Be
How did the Payment Card Industry standards come to fruition? Let’s start with the body that governs their development; the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). The PCI SSC is a worldwide consortium of security experts from different areas of payment processing, including businesses taking credit card payments.
Adnan Raja
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What Is a Payment Facilitator?
Have you ever heard of Square, Stripe or PayPal? You might be surprised to learn that these recognizable names in the payments space are Payment Facilitators. There are numerous middlemen involved in credit card processing, and depending on your size and needs, different ones will prove most advantageous for you.
Christina Lavingia
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4 Reasons to Automate POS Data
What does good point-of-sale data management look like? If the words ‘Excel spreadsheet’ have made it into your answer, let me stop you there. Manually recording and analyzing data may have worked well in the past, but in 2019 this method is a disservice to an automated approach for retailers.
Randall Lough
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