Entry Point: Where is Your Point of Sale System Vulnerable?

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May 2, 2013

Entry Point: Where is Your Point of Sale System Vulnerable?

In 2012, the Retail Industry made up 45% of data breach investigations. This is the highest percentage in retail history, and a 15% increase over 2011. While many business owners may feel that their business is too small to be concerned about a data breach, according to Visa's...

The Impact of Accepting Credit Cards and Mobile Payments

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April 30, 2013

The Impact of Accepting Credit Cards and Mobile Payments

Did you know that the majority of business in America today do not accept credit cards? What is the economic impact of avoiding credit cards and mobile payments for these businesses? Merchant Warehouse has developed the following presentation to help more clearly define how...

What's Next in Payments

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March 20, 2013

What's Next in Payments

This white paper discusses some of the emerging types of payment systems, what they mean for POS developers, merchants, value added resellers (VARS), and agents, as well as new technology solutions that will increase the flexibility and value associated with the merchant-...

15 Years in Payments with CEO Henry Helgeson

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March 13, 2013

15 Years in Payments

As Merchant Warehouse celebrates its 15th anniversary, I sat down with our co-founder and CEO Henry Helgeson to gain his perspective on the payments industry, how it has evolved since the company’s inception in 1998 and where it’s headed.   Me: Henry, how would you...

The Impact of Accepting Credit Cards and Mobile Payments versus Cash Only

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February 19, 2013

Impact of Accepting Credit And Mobile Payments

Personal finance experts have long claimed that paying electronically leads us to spend more money. The ease, convenience, and intangibility, they say, all make us more likely to overspend, which for a business owner looking to increase the revenue generated by each customer is...

Describing the Payments Industry in 2012 and Beyond

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November 14, 2012

Henry Helgeson, CEOThe payments industry today is definitely a changing environment, a very rapidly changing environment where we're not only looking at just the regular mag stripe transactions that we're familiar with, credit and debit transactions. But we're also going to be...

Credit Card Surcharging: It’s Bad for Business

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September 25, 2012

Customers Using Credit Cards

In July, card issuers and banks reached a 7.25 billon dollar settlement with merchants. As a result of the settlement, nearly seven million merchants will receive paid damages and lower processing interchange fees for a period of eight months. The settlement, which is viewed as...

Small Business, Big Opportunity – Credit Card Acceptance

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July 30, 2012

Small Business Credit Card Processing

According to a recent report from Intuit Small Business, an astounding 55 percent, or 14.85 million, of small businesses in the U.S. do not accept credit cards. It’s estimated that these businesses miss out on a potential 100 billion dollars in annual sales. These are amazing...

Avoiding Chargebacks

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June 5, 2012

Avoiding Chargebacks

The definition of a chargeback is when a cardholder disputes a charge posted to their credit card account. Chargebacks can occur for various reasons, such as when a purchase was not authorized by the cardholder (fraud), or when goods or services are not provided as expected.You...

Creating Customized Merchant Service Accounts

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May 31, 2012

Accepting Credit Cards

Think of all the different businesses you interact with and all the different ways they accept payments.  Ecommerce companies have different needs than clothing stores which have different needs than restaurants.  Throw in new technologies, which allow businesses to...