Payment Card Industry News

An HVAC, plumbing, or electrical contractor rarely collects payment at a counter. It happens in someone’s basement, driveway, or backyard, often at the end of a job that started as an [...]

Accepting credit cards is more complicated for a law firm than for almost any other professional service, because a portion of what a client pays – an advance on unearned fees, a settlement [...]

A taproom’s payment volume looks nothing like a full-service restaurant’s: high transaction counts in short bursts, open bar tabs running for hours, heavy tip processing, and – [...]

Veterinary clinics process a different kind of transaction than most small businesses: fewer, larger charges – a $2,000 surgery instead of a $20 retail sale – plus recurring [...]

Retail POS Systems in Wisconsin: What Shop Owners Should Look For A retail POS system is the operational center of your shop: checkout, inventory, customer records, and every card payment run [...]

When you compare payment processors, you’re not really comparing companies — you’re comparing pricing models. And in practice, the choice usually comes down to two: flat-rate pricing, [...]

Every Wisconsin business that accepts cards has made this choice, whether deliberately or by default: process payments through a national brand you’ve seen advertised everywhere, or work [...]

If you’ve ever opened your monthly merchant statement, stared at three pages of line items, and closed it again — you’re in good company. Processing statements are famously hard to [...]

Your point-of-sale system touches every part of your restaurant. It’s how servers fire orders to the kitchen, how the bar keeps tabs straight, how you track which menu items actually make [...]

Most business owners have no idea what they actually pay to accept a card. They know the monthly number stings, but the statement is a wall of acronyms, and “2.9% plus thirty cents” [...]