Merchant Services Insights
Important insights into the merchant services industry to help you lower your costs, stay compliant, and keep up with the latest payment technology.
The FTC and eight states just sued Toast over alleged hidden fees, unwanted add-ons and hard-to-cancel contracts. Here’s what the lawsuit says, how Toast responded and the six red flags to check in your own agreement.
Your processor touches every sale you make. Here’s what to compare, which contract traps to avoid and how to find what you really pay before you switch.
Compare Clover, Exatouch, TableTurn, Square, Toast and Lightspeed on real costs, contracts and processing, and find the right POS for your business.
The safest ways to take card payments over the phone in 2026, the PCI rules you must follow, and how to stop phone-order fraud.
A downgrade is when a card sale misses the requirements for its lowest interchange rate. Here’s what causes them and how to stop paying for them.
Those cryptic BANKCARD lines on your bank statement are your card processing: deposits coming in and fees going out. Here’s what each one means, when it posts, and how to use the DISC line to find out what you really pay.
Every business that accepts cards has a merchant ID. Here’s what the number is, where it hides, who should and shouldn’t have it, and what happens to it when you switch processors.
Our utility clients cut card processing fees by 70% on average with utility interchange pricing. Here’s who qualifies and how to get it.
Done right, implementing a surcharge can take your credit card processing fees to zero without changing a single price. Here are the rules, the benefits, and how to set it up.
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