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A merchant account is essential for businesses that accept payment. It acts as a bridge between customer payments and your merchant’s business bank account. When a transaction occurs, funds first ...

Merchant accounts are essential if you want to run a business that accepts debit and credit card payments. Not doing so can impede on your ability to attract customers and grow your business. Luckily, ...

What if you could grow your business with one free payment solution? Whether you accept payments in-person, online, one time or recurring, Helcim has you covered with powerful payment tools to scale.

Many businesses want to expand the payment methods they accept, so they obtain a merchant account from a payment processor or work with a payment facilitator like PayPal. Below, we’ll explain the ...

High risk businesses often have difficulty getting approved for a merchant account. But, there are options. You can find the best ones below. If your business is tagged as high-risk, you need to work ...

Regardless of how small your small business is or how it is structured, you should consider opening a business bank account. Even if you don’t yet have many expenses, you hopefully will have income to ...

Merchants have asked the group that oversees the credit card industry's data security standard to modify its requirements on account data that must be stored after a transaction. The National Retail ...

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