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Blaming Credit Card Associations for Rate Changes

Blaming Credit Card Associations for Rate Changes

Visa, MasterCard, and Discover generally change rates and terms in April and October. However, they can make changes at other t... 0 Comments | Read More »

Adding Alternative Payment Methods to your Online Store

Adding Alternative Payment Methods to your Online Store

Many established merchants offer payment methods in addition to credit cards. The most popular alternative by far is PayPal, bu... 2 Comments | Read More »

Third-party Marketplaces: What Merchants Should Know

Third-party Marketplaces: What Merchants Should Know

Many online merchants have embraced third-party marketplaces. They've been seduced by promises of easy revenue growth and enabl... 1 Comment | Read More »

Implementing the Online Sales Tax Bill

Implementing the Online Sales Tax Bill

The possibility of Congress passing legislation that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes has been discussed for ye... 0 Comments | Read More »

Merchants Using Interchange-Plus Pricing Continue to Overpay

Merchants Using Interchange-Plus Pricing Continue to Overpay

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 4 Comments | Read More »

Credit Card Processing: How to React to a Rate Increase

Credit Card Processing: How to React to a Rate Increase

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 0 Comments | Read More »

5 Must-have Features in an Ecommerce Platform

5 Must-have Features in an Ecommerce Platform

"5 Must-have Features in an Ecommerce Platform" is a free, 30-minute webinar. The presenter is Armando Roggio, contributing edi... Read More »

Credit Card Processing: The Cost of Not Auditing Statements

Credit Card Processing: The Cost of Not Auditing Statements

I was a keynote speaker at a recent meeting of U.S. and Canadian merchants. Whenever I present, I invite merchants to bring the... 0 Comments | Read More »

U.S. Merchants Can Now Charge for Credit Card Transactions

U.S. Merchants Can Now Charge for Credit Card Transactions

In November 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York preliminarily approved a proposed settlement agr... 2 Comments | Read More »

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms: Follow-up

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms: Follow-up

Editor's Note: This is a follow-up article to the just completed four-part series on how to lower your debit and credit card co... 1 Comment | Read More »

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 4: Negotiations

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 4: Negotiations

Editor's Note: This is "Part 4" in a four-part series on how to lower your debit and credit card costs and obtain more favorabl... 1 Comment | Read More »

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 3: Preparation

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 3: Preparation

This is "Part 3" in a four-part series on how to lower your debit and credit card costs and obtain more favorable terms and con... 3 Comments | Read More »

Swipe Fee Settlement Bad, Retailers Say

Swipe Fee Settlement Bad, Retailers Say

Several retail trade groups and merchant advocates intend to fight a pending antitrust settlement that has Visa and MasterCard ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Choosing an Integrated Ecommerce System; 4 Steps

Choosing an Integrated Ecommerce System; 4 Steps

Editor's Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the advantages of an integrated, all-in-one ecommerce platform. The... 0 Comments | Read More »

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 2: Attitude

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 2: Attitude

This article is "Part 2" in a four-part series on how to lower your debit and credit card costs and obtain more favorable terms... 0 Comments | Read More »

Defining Your Integrated System Requirements

Defining Your Integrated System Requirements

Editor's Note: This is part two of a three-part series on the benefits of an integrated, all-in-one ecommerce platform. The fir... 0 Comments | Read More »

17 Ecommerce Themes for OpenCart

17 Ecommerce Themes for OpenCart

OpenCart is an open-source shopping cart system that is feature-rich and user-friendly, with a large variety of payment gateway... 0 Comments | Read More »

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 1:  The Basics

How to Lower Credit Card Processing Costs and Obtain Better Terms, Part 1: The Basics

Editor's Note: Contributor Phil Hinke is a veteran of the credit card processing industry. He now consults with merchants to he... 2 Comments | Read More »

5 Steps to Prepare for Google Shopping

5 Steps to Prepare for Google Shopping

In "Cheaper Clicks from AdWords Coming?," I encouraged merchants to try Google's Product Listing Ads because they produce excep... 2 Comments | Read More »

Visa, MasterCard Settlement Not an Automatic Win for Merchants

Visa, MasterCard Settlement Not an Automatic Win for Merchants

Visa, MasterCard and 13 of the country's biggest banks have agreed to pay $7.25 billion to retailers in a settlement from a law... 1 Comment | Read More »

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