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How Payment Gateways Work

What Is a Payment Gateway? A payment gateway is an e-commerce application that authorizes payments for e-businesses, online retailers, bricks and clicks, or traditional brick and mortar businesses. It is the virtual...

Nelix Transax Gateway

Experts in Quickbooks merchant services and Intuit merchant services integration. Using intuit quickbooks with Host Merchant Services payment processing is fast and easy! Business owners who want to use QuickBooks...

USA ePay Gateway

USA ePay Gateway Solutions for Merchant Services usaepay Business professionals today must find an effective way to improve financial management, and Host Merchant Services offers the ideal solution through USA ePay. This is...

How Credit Card Processing Works

Credit Card Processing Host Merchant Services can guarantee its customers savings at the lowest rates possible. By understanding how credit card processing works, where the money gets made off of the transactions themselves,...

MasterCard’s Merchant Location Fee

In 2016, MasterCard announced it will start charging a higher annual fee to merchants. Also known as the merchant location fee, this additional cost comes directly from the network, not...

Payment Aggregation

Typically, Merchant Aggregators or Payment Aggregators are service providers through which e-commerce or mobile payments merchants can process their payment transactions. Aggregators allow merchants to accept credit card and bank transfers without having to setup a...

Merchant Cash Advance Explained

A Merchant Cash Advance is a lump sum payment to a business in exchange for an agreed upon percentage of future credit card and/or debit card profits. The way this works is Merchant Cash Advance companies provide...

Discover On Us Program

DISCOVER “ON US” PROGRAM On November 21, 2012 Today The Official Merchant Services Blog  will focus on an exclusive deal offered to merchants by Host Merchant Services, a second year of the Discover “On...

Benefits of Accepting EBT

Accepting EBT At My Business Around the United States, millions of people use electronic benefits transfer (EBT) to participate in the economy. This system allows for the instantaneous transfer of government funds...