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Payment options continue to expand and customer preferences continue to shift. It’s important to work with a merchant service provider that offers the convenient payment options your customers want, ...

Storing your credit card information makes it easier for merchants to facilitate future and recurring transactions. For data security or consumer privacy purposes, however, you may not want merchants ...

As a small business owner, you know that accepting credit cards comes with a cost. Expanding your customer base to cardholders can create massive profits, but it can also swamp you in expensive swipe ...

Many credit card issuers, including American Express, Bank of America, Chase and Citi®, provide cash-back offers that can be added to eligible credit cards. For instance, with Citi, these offers are ...

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If you want to support your local taco restaurant or a favorite small online shop, how you pay for a purchase can make a difference. "Anything but a credit card," advised Jeff Hallenbeck, head of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Gingiss covers news impacting your customers and employees. With Visa and Mastercard recently reaching a settlement on a ...