Running a small business comes with pesky costs, probably none more frustrating than the fees you pay to accept credit and debit card payments. To combat pesky fees and protect your profit margins, ...

Accepting credit cards requires a payment processor like Square or Stripe, a merchant account, and hardware like POS ...

The best credit card processing companies offer simple processing services at reasonable rates to small business owners. These companies also need to provide certain features, such as reporting ...

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When it comes to processing credit card payments, you have to spend money to make money. Every player in the payments value chain, including the issuer, acquirer or processor and card network, deducts ...

A bipartisan bill aimed at increasing competition in the Visa- and Mastercard-dominated credit card processing network is gaining momentum in Washington as companies take sides on whether it will ...

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 ...

We all know how convenient it is to swipe our credit cards for everyday purchases. In fact, as of 2022, 82% of U.S. adults had a credit card, making it the most common consumer lending product. In ...

Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® and founder of Healthy Rich, a platform for inclusive, budget-free financial education. She’s written about work and money for publications ...

Many people starting new businesses today are too young to even remember the old-school credit card imprinters – you know, those clunky plastic devices that made a carbon print of a credit card next ...