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Picking The Best Merchant Services Provider for your Sage Software

EBizCharge

A merchant services provider helps businesses process payments like debit and credit cards, Automated Clearing House (ACH)/eChecks, and other online transactions. These providers act as intermediaries between merchants, banks, and payment networks, ensuring transactions are processed securely and efficiently.

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13 Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Merchant Service Provider

EBizCharge

A merchant services provider (MSP) is an intermediary between banks, card networks, and merchants, ensuring smooth and secure transactions between businesses and their customers. MSPs provide payment technology that enables businesses to process digital payments, such as credit, debit, and ACH/eCheck transactions.

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The Difference Between a Payment Acquirer, ISO, and PayFac

Clearly Payments

Acquirers: The Foundation of Payment Networks At the heart of payment processing, acquirers, often referred to as acquiring banks , play a foundational role. These may include robust fraud prevention mechanisms and advanced reporting tools.

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How Payment Facilitation Works: An Overview for SaaS Providers

Exact Payments

With the explosion of cloud-based software, e-commerce, and mobile payments, a significant portion of transactions now take place online. Payment processing refers to the digital transfer of funds between a merchant‘s bank account and a customer’s bank account.

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Best Practices in Fraud Management: Q&A with Bob Shiflet

FICO

Before joining FICO, Bob served as the Global Head of Fraud at both Citibank and Bank of America. In this blog, Bob shares insights into best practices he’s found for creating a culture of fraud prevention. In your roles at Citi and Bank of America, what did a day-in-the-life look like?

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What is a Payment Processor?

Clearly Payments

The 1970s witnessed the birth of electronic authorization systems, enabling real-time communication between merchants and banks to verify the legitimacy of transactions. In the 1990s, the internet revolutionized commerce, and with it, online credit card processing emerged.