About the Author: Niki Blois
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Recent posts published:
Storing Credit Card Information Safely in 2023: The Do’s and Don’ts
Storing credit card information requires due diligence from merchants. They have a responsibility to keep customer credit card data safe and create a secure environment. Unfortunately, not all merchants [...]
How to Secure Credit Card Transactions Online
The rise of data breaches in the U.S. According to Bloomberg and the Identity Theft Resource center, U.S. companies reported a record 1,093 data breaches in 2016—a 40% increase [...]
How to Open a Merchant Account: 7 Steps to Start Accepting Credit Card Payments
If you’re looking to start accepting credit card payments from your customers, then you’ll need to open a merchant account. While the process of setting up a merchant account [...]
3 Steps to Ace the TLS 1.2 Upgrade
In 2015, the PCI Security Standards Council announced changes to its security standards that have reverberated across the payment landscape: merchants are no longer allowed to use SSL or [...]
How to Read a Merchant Processing Statement
Many merchants dread receiving their credit card processing statements. It’s often filled with confusing details, numbers, and notations that can be difficult to interpret. But despite this learning curve, [...]
What is Credit Card Tokenization?
What does tokenization mean? With regard to data security, tokenization refers to the process of securing sensitive data by substituting valuable elements with nonvaluable equivalents known as tokens. Tokens [...]
Finding the Best Merchant Account
Do you operate an eCommerce business? One of the easiest ways you can make your business more productive and reduce the day-to-day hassle of accepting payments is to find [...]
When to Fight Chargebacks: 4 Questions to Guide Your Decision to Fight or Fall Back
Should you always fight chargebacks? When a chargeback pops up, your knee-jerk reaction might be emotional. You may feel angry or upset and want to fight back. Unfortunately, chargebacks [...]
How to Start Selling Online: Choosing and Implementing a Shopping Cart Integration for Payments
Businesses are quickly shifting to online selling channels. Learn why in the video below: What is a shopping cart integration for payments? If you want to start [...]
Transform Your Business with Omnichannel Payment Processing: 4 Key Benefits
As consumers increasingly experience convenient, flexible buying options, omnichannel payment processing is becoming a necessary business strategy. But what exactly does that mean? We live in a digital age. [...]
