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Credit Card Processing & How to Choose a Payment Processor

Should Merchants Accept Pin Debit Cards?

  It used to be cheaper to take pin debit cards via the debit networks instead of through the credit card interchange networks.  That means that you would take the card and the customer would enter his pin number.  The debit networks are Pulse, Maestro, Interline, Jeanie, NYCE, Star and others.  But since the Dodd Frank Act, it is cheaper to take debit cards just

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Solving Billing Problems with Payment Processing – Credit Card and ACH

Billing Problem 1: How can merchants properly store credit card information for future client transactions? We recently received a testimonial from a doctor’s office who just switched over to our payment processing platform. Their words perfectly describe the answer to Billing Problem 1. “We used to save our clients credit card information in our computer, and then as they come in for appointments, we would

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Scam Against Merchants from Other Credit Card Processors!

Scam Against Merchants from Other Credit Card Processors!

Telemarketing is prevalent in this industry. The telemarketer has a script that reads something like this: ‘This is your credit card processor calling and we have to make an update to your credit card terminal.’ Or they say: ‘This is your credit card processor calling to inform you that your terminal is out of date and it needs to be replaced.’ Or they identify themselves

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Payment Processing Sneaky Rate Increase Scam!

It is amazing to us at Electronic Money Company, how many merchant service providers think up new fees and sneak them in under the radar in small print on a merchant statement! Many merchants don’t even look at their merchant statements because they don’t take the time to read the details every month, or because they have bookkeepers whose job is not management of money,

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