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Payment Processing for Small Businesses: What They Don’t Tell You

Clearly Payments

Cash Discounting and Surcharging To offset processing costs, some businesses use cash discounting or surcharging: Cash Discounting Offering a small discount (usually 3-4%) for customers who pay with cash instead of a card. Contactless payments grew by 150% between 2020 and 2023.

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5 Signs Your Business Has Outgrown Square

Cardfellow

While Squares flat rate structure is predictable and looks less complex, its often not the most cost-effective. Interchange plus models can often save you money – sometimes significant amounts – over flat rate processing. Its a far cry from the early days of 2.75% flat rate.

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How FinTechs View Integrated Receivables In 2020

PYMNTS

The first trend that DadeSystems has noticed is that the cost of processing payments is rising, and that is for a few reasons, according to Chief Marketing Officer Tom Berdan. FinTechs are watching the latest trends in integrated receivables as a new year begins.

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EBizCharge is Honored to Be Ranked No. 552 in California on the 2024 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

EBizCharge

5000 of the fastest-growing private companies in America for achieving three-year revenue growth of 105% from 2020 to 2023. 5000 list averaged 543.75% revenue growth from 2020 through today. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. EBizCharge is honored to rank No. 552 in California, No.

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The Rise of Contactless Payments and Tap on Phone

Cardfellow

Mastercard states that 2 out of every 3 transactions processed on its network are now contactless, up from less than 1 out of 3 in 2020. Costs to Accept Tap on Phone Tap on phone is considered a card-present transaction and your processor will charge card-present rates. What is tap on phone?

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What It Takes To Get Consumers (And Merchants) To Go Cashless, Contactless – And PIN-less

PYMNTS

Larger merchants have an advantage in multiple areas, including processing costs, IT resources and distribution.” To get more merchants on board with contactless, an eventual tailwind could be the continued rollout of true PIN-less debit, which Platko believes may be more of a late 2020 to 2021 event.

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Corporates Step Up To Welcome AI, Blockchain

PYMNTS

to pinpoint exactly which technologies they expect to have the biggest impact on how businesses manage their money, with artificial intelligence and robotics process automation emerging as top focuses. Finance professionals spoke with Gartner, Inc. Moreover, half the respondents expect to deploy predictive analytics in the same period.”.