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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, ...

Walmart filed a complaint about the Visa and Mastercard settlement offer saying the proposal did not provide relief to large ...

Discover how batch credit card processing can save costs with grouped transactions. Learn how it works, key benefits, and considerations for your business.

September 15, 2025 - US merchants are cautiously optimistic that a federal district court's decision in Corner Post, Inc. v. Bd. of Governors of Fed. Rsrv. Sys., No. 1:21-CV-00095, 2025 WL 2253474, (D ...

A proposed settlement to long-running litigation over credit card fees could mean you could pay more at stores to use certain types of credit card, or even have your card rejected. Visa and Mastercard ...

Storing your credit card information makes it easier for merchants to facilitate future and recurring transactions. For data security or consumer privacy purposes, however, you may not want merchants ...

Processing fees, or “swipe” fees, on credit cards are likely rising for millions of businesses, but whether this is a classic case of corporate greed at the expense of consumers depends on who you ask ...

The way it works in the credit card industry, the acquirer owns the POS terminal and rents it to the merchant, who places it in its physical premise. Ergo, even though the common man sees a "POS ...

With these merchant cash advance companies, your business can access funds quickly by borrowing against future sales.

If you are a patron of a particular merchant, you might find that it makes the process smoother, enabling faster future transactions, if you allow it to store your card information. That's well and ...