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Once you complete a sale and sign an agreement with a merchant, it’s often easy to just move onto the next one and focus on finding more of them to sign. Merchants you’ve signed tend to stay happy and complacent as long as their hardware and software are functioning properly…
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Credit Card Chip Technology
Credit card chip technology is a security measure to protect our personal financial information from theft and fraud. How? And what does this mean for your business? We’ll get into it in just a moment. Another day, another threat to our security, right? It seems like every time we turn…
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Credit Card Readers
Everyone knows what a credit card reader is. Or at least you know where you can find one. Every store, every gas station, every establishment who accepts credit cards as a form of payment has one. Even people who don’t have or don’t use a credit card could tell you…
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Credit Card Swiper
It reads the card’s information when you swipe the card through. A swiper is one way to enable your business to accept payments by credit or debit card. If you wish to stay competitive in the 21st century you need to have a swiper. If you aren’t familiar with credit…
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Credit Card with Chip
Credit card with chip is the new standard across the world for secure payment transactions and credit card data security. Every time you look at the news feeds, you see it: another threat to credit card security. It seems like not a day goes by we aren’t once again under…
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EMV Definition
EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa. These three companies came up with the standard used for authorizing smart cards. Yes, the future of credit cards looks very “smart” here in the United States. Credit cards have remained the same for a long time now. They look the same and…
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Affinity Groups
Affinity groups are groups of people who band together with one common interest or goal in mind. Chances are you know of one and don’t even realize it. Knowing of them and understanding what their purpose is is two different things. As a business owner, it’s worth exploring your options…
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Affinity Providers
Affinity Providers and Affinity Groups are essentially one and the same. You may not be familiar with these groups but they are actually quite common. These groups and organizations can be small in size. In many cases they are a group of close, trusted friends. There are other national and…
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Cash Registers for Sale
Looking for cash registers for sale? When it comes to supplying your business with all it needs to run, buying a cash register is one of those things you wish you could delegate. Well, maybe you can… (Tell your intern to read this and take care of it. Kidding.)…
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Bank Credit Cards
Bank credit cards are credit cards you get through your bank. The bank issues you the card and the line of credit. We all know the names of the major credit card companies: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. But two of those companies work independently from banks that also…
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Accept Credit Card Payments Online
Many types of businesses must be able to accept credit card payments online. Are you one of them? The ways that businesses accept payments has changed a lot over the past several years. Online shopping is more popular than ever now. The reasons are simple. Everyone likes the convenience factor…
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Accepting Credit Cards
Accepting credit cards can be as easy as accepting cash… You’re trying to open a business. Congratulations! It is not something just anyone can do, so hats off to you. You’re doing it! It’s exciting but a little scary too, especially if it’s a new thing for you. Not to…
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Affinity Business Partnering
Affinity business partnering can open up wide worlds of profitable possibilities for you and your community… If you are a business owner (which is a fair guess because you are reading this) you want to be successful. No one goes into business expecting to fail, right? One of the best…
The world of payments is rapidly changing in front of our eyes. Massive consolidation is happening at a record pace, and this will inevitably impact your business as a merchant services agent.