Payment Card Industry News

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” [...]

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 [...]