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Accepting credit card payments has become nearly a requirement to do business. But the prospect of extracting money from a piece of plastic in your customer’s wallet—or a string of ones and zeros in ...

Merchant accounts are essential if you want to run a business that accepts debit and credit card payments. Not doing so can impede on your ability to attract customers and grow your business. Luckily, ...

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Most small company owners will not hear the terms ‘high-risk merchant account’ and the use of ‘high-risk credit cards processing’ until they are recognized as such. At first, it looks a little ...

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According to the American Marketing Association over 75 percent of all American adults use credit cards to make purchases. The average consumer uses a credit card 6 times a week and the trend is ...

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Credit/debit card payments must be processed in an efficient, consistent, secure, and controlled manner in compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Departments may accept ...

Bowing to pressure from 18 lawmakers, United Airlines in July offered extensions until late September on its new merchant fee policy that would revoke the ability of 28 travel agencies to use the ...