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Streamline For Better Payment Processing

Credit card processing fees aren’t always fair. Payment processing can seem limited, and built to punish small businesses, low volume sellers, and the business-to-business industry. These businesses need better payment processing options that can fully cover a range of payments,...
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What are Credit Card Surcharges

Credit card surcharges involve the addition of a small fee added to a transaction. They’re added to cover the cost of processing a credit card transaction. This is why businesses often have a minimum purchase amount if you intend to...
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The Difference Between Chargebacks and Refunds

Various types of high risk merchants need to be aware of the difference between chargebacks and refunds. The best high risk processors will offer high risk merchant accounts that acknowledge these kinds of risks but still treat them fairly. First,...
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Credit Card Companies Dropping Signature Requirement

Businesses are always looking for ways to make checkout faster. With advancing technologies and a need for faster credit card processing, many credit card companies have decided to drop the need for signatures on payment slips and checkout terminals. This...
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Simplified Compiled High Risk Merchant Reports

The lack of credit card processing options for high risk merchants is frustrating. When the only high risk merchant accounts available are themselves riskier prospects, it doesn’t exactly help decrease that risk. High risk merchant accounts should give merchants the...
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Get Faster Payments with Credit Card Invoicing

If you’ve ever managed a business’s accounting, you realize that the job gets misrepresented a lot. Accountants are often represented with their noses in spreadsheets, furiously sweating minuscule financial details. Sometimes that’s the easiest part of the job. The hard...
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The Popularity of Bitcoin Payments is on the Rise

Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Dash and other cryptocurrencies are set to completely change the method of online payment. Businesses that fail to accommodate this trend will take a big risk in losing a significant portion of their customer base. At...
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Watch Trends in Online Payment Processing

The world of online payment services has changed rapidly. Many of these changes could be seen coming years back. Others seem to take hold at surprising speed. What are the biggest online payment processing trends that can be seen taking...
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How to Reverse Chargebacks

Handling chargebacks is a process fraught with frustration. You have to convince the bank that a chargeback dispute isn’t legitimate. It’s difficult – the system is built to favor customers for some good reasons. However, when credit card chargebacks should...