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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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Smart Card Reader
A smart card reader is how you swipe, or rather “dip,” to purchase something with an EMV credit card (or chip card). It looks almost exactly like a traditional credit card terminal or swiper, but it’s specifically designed to read chip cards. Credit card companies have seen the light. They…
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Smart Credit Card
It sounds very European doesn’t it? “Smart credit card” isn’t something you traditionally hear when referring to credit cards here in the United States. The reason it might sound “foreign” to you is because for the last decade or so, foreign countries have been using smart cards instead of traditional…
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Virtual Credit Cards
Virtual credit cards allow you to purchase goods and services anonymously online. Just sign up up for an account at a provider (listed below), deposit money onto your card(s) through your bank or credit card, and then go shopping without revealing any of your actual card information anywhere! When making…
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Chip and PIN Credit Cards
Chip and PIN credit cards provide a higher level of protection against fraud and theft than any other credit cards before them. The world would be a very different place if it weren’t for credit cards. We wouldn’t have the ability to buy anything online for one. And if we…
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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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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…
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.