Why Online Stores Need Dedicated eCommerce Merchant Services
Before you can sell anything online through your eCommerce store, you need to set up a merchant account that allows you to process credit and debit card transactions. So, one of the first challenges you must overcome as an eCommerce retailer is finding the right payment processing solution for your website. Ideally, you should balance […]
Everything You Need to Know About Magento Payment Gateways
For eCommerce merchants and online shoppers alike, payment gateways are an important piece of the payment processing puzzle. As a merchant, you need a fast, reliable way to process online payments for your store—and your customers trust you to keep their payment information safe and secure. Thankfully, the right Magento payment gateway serves both of those roles. […]
Interchange Plus Pricing vs. Tiered Pricing: Comparing Your Options for Payment Processing Fees
When it comes to choosing a merchant services provider (MSP), one of the biggest factors to consider is pricing. But with so many different factors involved—interchange rates, assessment fees, markup, tiers—it can be difficult to understand the true cost of payment processing. To make merchant account fees even more complicated, not all MSPs structure their pricing the same […]
The Comprehensive Guide to Healthcare Credit Card Processing
What if there was a single change you could make to improve your patients’ customer experience, get paid faster, and save time and resources on admin tasks? Offering healthcare credit card processing does just that. By allowing patients to pay with credit cards, healthcare practitioners and admin staff can streamline customer experiences and stop worrying about chasing late payments. […]
How to Reduce Merchant Fees (Without Losing Sales)
Are high merchant fees eating into your hard-earned profits? Merchant services fees can put the squeeze on businesses with thin profit margins. Even though you’d love to lower your merchant fees, you’re probably wondering what choice you have. After all, taking drastic measures like not accepting credit cards at all could cost you valuable sales […]
How PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy Could Kill Your Business
As a business owner, you want to make it easy and convenient for customers to pay with their method of choice. That’s why it’s so important to find a reliable payments partner that allows you to securely accept credit and debit card payments. However, not all payment processors are created equal. Some of the biggest […]
Merchant Account Fees: A Guide to Dollars and Sense
Lately, we’ve noticed a lot of confusion surrounding merchant account fees. Trying to understand how merchant account fees are calculated often leaves business owners with more questions than they started with. How do merchant services providers determine account fees? How do credit card associations charge for transactions? How can I get a fair rate for […]
Creating an eCommerce Merchant Account: What You Need to Know About Accepting Online Payments
In order to run a successful business online, you need a way to accept customer payments. So, one of the first things you need to do as an eCommerce merchant is to partner with a reliable merchant services provider (MSP) to create a dedicated eCommerce merchant account. Otherwise, you won’t be able to accept customer payments […]
How Next-Day Funding Merchant Accounts Drive Business Growth
If there’s one thing every business owner knows, it’s this: time is money. Unfortunately, this can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, the faster you make sales and scale your company, the greater your revenue potential; but, on the other, slow payment processing times can leave you feeling strapped for cash even when business is […]
What to Do if Your Company is One of Stripe’s Prohibited Businesses
As a store owner, you work hard to run a successful business. You have enough responsibility on your plate without worrying about whether your payment processor will randomly shut down your account. Yet, we’ve seen it happen time and time again: unsuspecting business owners wake up to find their deposits frozen and their payment gateways […]