Payment Card Industry News

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” [...]

Restaurants have unique payment processing needs that general-purpose processors don’t handle well. Split checks. Table-side tipping. High transaction volume with thin margins. Employee tip [...]

Dental practices have specific payment processing requirements that general merchant services providers don’t address well. Patient billing that integrates with practice management [...]

Effective April 16, 2026, CardPointe Gateway disabled all automatic Visa Level 2 default fields. If your business accepts corporate, business, or government cards, your transactions are now [...]

The highlighted sections show exactly what’s getting flagged — the short punchy parallel sentences like “Not because something broke. Because single-location POS setups…” [...]

Picture this: it’s a Friday evening, your dining room is packed, and your card terminal just stopped working. You call your processor. You’re on hold for eleven minutes, then [...]

Online payments should feel boring. In the best way. Click, pay, done. For Motus options that power online payments, start here: Online payment processing Quick answer: choose one primary way [...]

Most businesses don’t lose money because their processing rate is “bad.” They lose money because they never get a straight answer about what they are actually paying. So let’s do the thing almost [...]

A POS system is either (A) the beating heart of your daily operations or (B) the thing that makes your staff stare into the middle distance during the lunch rush. There is no third option. For [...]

Madison has no shortage of merchant services options. Some are solid. Some are basically a fee delivery system with a customer service email address. This guide is about comparing providers the [...]