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What are Peer-to-Peer payments? And How Do They Work?

People are no longer carrying as much cash as they used to, and that trend is even more pronounced among younger generations. Technology also has a habit of improving life...

EMV, P2PE, or both?

Non Cash payments are increasingly making up a bigger portion of all the transactions conducted. This isn’t only prevalent because of more individuals making purchases online or via their mobile...

How to Integrate QuickBooks with your POS System

QuickBooks has been the accounting software of choice for well over 20 years. One of QuickBooks’ most outstanding features is that it can integrate with virtually all third-party apps. Whether...

What are the Types of Fintech and How Fintech Make Money?

FinTech technology has been gaining immense popularity lately. Financial technology helps automate different types of financial processes, thus streamlining business for the industries offering banking and other financial services. The...

Why Is Redundancy Important For High-Risk Merchants?

Nowadays, it is crucial to work smarter, not harder, and any savvy business owner always has to be prepared for anything that might come their way. Whether your sales decrease...

How Does The Underwriting Process Work For High-Risk Merchants?

Are you the proud owner of a large-scale online business? Well then, you’ve probably found yourself being called a ‘high-risk merchant.’ This is essentially a catch-all term for entrepreneurs who...

Auction Merchant Account

In the last years, what most of us know as traditional auctions have branched out and evolved to create a vast variety of auctions, one of those being online penny...

Understanding Merchant Amex Options: Direct vs. OptBlue

It’s no secret that American Express tends to do its own separate thing regarding credit card processing. Due to them doing their own thing, Amex has been an outsider in...

American Express Chargeback Process

Regarding chargebacks, most people think about Visas and Mastercards. After all, they account for many transactions executed through credit/debit cards. American Express chargeback accounts for only 3% of these transactions,...