Merchant Solutions for the B2B Marketplace

Is your company established to process credit card payment transactions as a "retail" or “B2B” merchant account? Are many of your customers businesses as compared to individual consumers?  Are you a manufacturer or distributor? If so, your account should...

Pony Express days, are over.  The United States Postal Service (USPS), deep in the red, announced the closing of over 200 mail processing centers - a move  that will add at minimum an additional day for most first class deliveries. That's another day for invoices to...

Onvia estimates that "government spending accounts for one half of every US dollar spent or half the nations Gross Domestic Product."  So...if you're a B2B merchant who wants to increase sales, well....local, state and federal government is looking good. They also...

The July 2010 Restoring American Financial Stability Act or Dodd-Frank bill as it is often referred to finally implements new regulations on October 1 of this year regarding it's heavily debated Durbin Amendment.  The amendment gave the Federal Reserve Board the power...

The Credit Union Times reported late last month that there is indeed momentum growing for the delay of the debit card interchange cap portion of the Durbin Amendment (a provision of HR 4173).  Lots of pause legislation introduced and now out loud doubts by the likes...

Lock your doors. Ratchet up the security. While substantial breaches seem to be diminishing as large companies do just that, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) experts point to Level III and Level IV merchants to be at high risk for credit card...

Remember the old knucklebusters?  I do (hence the gray).  Back in the early 80's when I was waiting tables that's how we processed credit cards at the restaurant. I even remember checking "the book" - a publication with pages and pages of credit card numbers,  to...

  I would be remiss not to mention the recent lawsuit - October 4, 2010 - launched by the US Justice Department against the three renowned credit card companies, American Express, Visa and MasterCard, for anticompetitive practices. At issue is the merchant rules...