Credit card payments accounted for 40 percent of in-store retail sales in 2024. This dominance reflects a fundamental shift in consumer payment preferences. Digital wallet usage continues to expand ...

As a small business owner, you know that accepting credit cards comes with a cost. Expanding your customer base to cardholders can create massive profits, but it can also swamp you in expensive swipe ...

Payment processing is necessary for businesses to accept credit card payments, but it comes with risks that could open your business to fines, fees and operational challenges. Unless you adhere to ...

The best credit card processing companies offer simple processing services at reasonable rates to small business owners. These companies also need to provide certain features, such as reporting ...

At Forbes Advisor, our team of experts select and test credit card processing companies across 31 key metrics that matter to small businesses. We analyzed everything from reliability and affordability ...

Credit card processing costs typically range from 1.5% to 3.5%, but processor markups can inflate costs. Using interchange-plus pricing can give you more insight than a flat-rate plan. Compare quotes, ...

TROY, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Small business owners are less optimistic than they were a year ago and, as they accept a wider variety of payment methods such as debit and credit cards, digital wallets ...

During the roughly three years since the pandemic, small-business owners have struggled with higher labor costs, increasing rents, and inflation-driven spikes in the prices of supplies. But many ...

Small business Saturday is just around the corner, and some businesses are telling shoppers the best gift for them is cash. Paying with cash would help businesses offset credit card processing fees ...

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Every time a shopper uses a credit card, the merchant pays a fee to process the transaction, commonly known as a swipe fees. Supporters of a bipartisan bill in the US Senate say the bill could help ...