Credit cards are an essential part of doing business for a lot of companies, but accepting them doesn’t always come cheap. Some businesses avoid accepting certain card types altogether. When running an e-commerce business, though, accepting other payment types can
If you’re running a small business and need to accept credit card payments, the first step is usually to open a merchant account. But what if you can’t open one or don’t want to? There’s good news: you have options available.
A common question we get from (understandably frustrated) sellers in Canada and Australia involves declined transactions. “My approval ratio is high, so why do I get so many declined transactions when selling to Americans?” Do you have this issue, too?
About a decade ago, cryptocurrency began. Bitcoin was the one and only option and mined by just a few enthusiasts. At the time, crypto was arguably too futuristic to be taken seriously. Decentralized? Blockchain? Digital wallets? Very few were buying
The fast and easy answer is that debit cards cost less for merchants than credit cards. But that answer doesn’t include card type popularity or preference by consumers. That could be changing too, though, based on support for interchange fee adjustments for debit card use by the
