Two of the most common payment processing pricing models you will encounter today are flat rate pricing and interchange plus pricing. Here’s how they compare and why interchange plus pricing is the superior choice for most merchants. Choosing the right credit card processor can be a difficult task when you consider there are several types […]
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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 and eat into your profits. You don’t want to pay more than you need to for payment processing, but how do you choose a merchant account provider that
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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 becoming a threat to unsuspecting customers as companies rely more heavily than ever on point of sale services for their businesses. As a merchant, you want to protect your
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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 surcharge for shoppers can turn away business. As a business owner, it’s important to decide which option makes sense for your business as a growing number of
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Many retailers impose a fee on customers when they use a credit card as they are charged a fee for using a credit card machine to process a transaction. This practice has long been illegal in California, however. In 1985, California passed a law banning businesses from charging these fees, which forced many businesses to
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If you’re planning to sell vapes online, one of the first hurdles you will need to overcome is finding merchant services that accept your business. The sale of electronic cigarettes, vape, and related products is considered high risk. This means many merchant account providers will turn you away. Even Square, PayPal, and other processing platforms
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Most business owners loathe payment processing fees. They logically know that paying for merchant services is no different than their customers paying them for services. Yet, after investing a lot of time and money in starting or building a business, the seemingly high cost of credit card equipment and year-to-year increase in fees tends
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How to Avoid Merchant Account Holds or Freezes Many merchants do not understand why freezes or holds occur, but these are important topics to understand. Both are for the merchant’s protection, but they can be financially stressful to your business when they occur unexpectedly. Here’s why holds and freezes occur and what you need to do to make sure you
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Millennials between 18 and 34 are a significant market segment for banks and other financial institutions to attract and retain. More than 83 million millennials are now in the U.S., representing one-quarter of the country’s population and a larger share than baby boomers. Most millennials have spent their entire lives with technology and have very
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DOJ Approves Creation Of Real-Time Payments Network The DOJ has approved a real-time payment network suggested by two dozen banks who want to provide faster payments to merchants using their merchant services. The DOJ wanted to make sure that this was not a move that would consolidate too much power in too few places and that there is no
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Protecting Yourself After the Sonic Drive-In Breach Customers who have recently been to a Sonic Drive-In may want to keep an eye on their debit or credit cards. The company recently reported that there was a breach in their merchant services system that resulted in the theft of debit and credit card information for five
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How and Why Shake Shack is Opening Cashless Burger Joints Just when the world thought buzzers were the most cutting-edge ideas of the food industry, Shake Shack, a burger joint based in New York City, decided to try something different and innovative. They will be opening a cashless Shake Shack New York City at Astor Place
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Yesterday the U.K.’s Treasury Ministry ruled to forbid surcharges on debit and credit purchases. The ban is to go into effect January of 2018. In recent years merchants have been imposing surcharges to their customers for using credit or debit cards. They, in essence, were passing along the fees that the merchant would incur from
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It looks like Visa wants to kill cash transactions. The credit card company announced last week that they are spending $500,000 to get restaurants to move completely cashless. They say they will give $10k to each of 50 “qualifying restaurants, eateries, cafes, and food trucks” as an incentive to make the transition. The gift
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As Amazon.com’s market share grows, retailers are feeling the pressure. They aren’t the only ones. Vantiv’s acquisition of Worldpay is putting the squeeze on payment processing companies in much the same way. On Wednesday Vantiv agreed to pay 7.7 billion pounds ($9.9 billion USD) for Worldpay Group PLC, both payment processing companies. This move will greatly increase Vantiv’s
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President Trump may be gunning to reform the Dodd-Frank Act, in particular one of the most contentious policies of the act: the Durbin Amendment. The Durbin Amendment—passed as a stipulation of the Dodd-Frank Act—allows the government to set price caps on fees for card transactions. Before 2009, interchange rates were set by banks and merchants
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It seems that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally beginning to crack down on the growing vape and e-cig industry, after it announced last year that all e-cigarettes and other vaping products will now be regulated in the same way as cigarettes are under the 2007 Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control
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Apple, Android, and Google have their own pay services, where people can make payments directly from their devices. Recently, Wal-Mart joined the bandwagon when it released Walmart Pay. Target is now joining the game, planning to release its own payment service, Target Pay, later this year. Although Target has not decided if the service will
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