Referral or affiliate programs are a dime a dozen. In the industry I’m in almost every merchant account provider has one of these programs. I know this is true because in preparation for creating another website I’ve become referral partners with many of them. That is exactly why I am introducing our Referral Partner program [...]
It is Saturday morning and I’ve made a commitment to myself to write a blog post every day except Sundays. So I am sitting here wondering what I should write about. I mean how many things can I write about merchant accounts! The truth is there is plenty top write on that subject [...]
From time to time I review the search terms and phrases that being people to this blog to get ideas for posts. Today one of the first search phrases was “are you allowed to have two merchant accounts?” So here is a quick answer to that question – yes.
We have many clients that [...]
It seems almost every day I get an email or a tweet asking me if my company, Cocard Synergy, has a better solution for accepting credit cards than PayPal. I have reviewed the fees of PayPal merchants accounts many times but I am always left feeling like I am not receiving the full story from [...]
Back in August of this year I wrote a post about freeauthnet.com offer of Authorize.net for “free;” you can see that post here. I tried to show that a free authorize.net account ended up costing an extra $232.40 more than if you just paid the $15 set up fee for authorize.net through my company, [...]
Yesterday I saw the traffic of this blog triple and I had no idea why. I did a little research and I found out the Los Angles Times mentioned the term “straigh pass through” in a business focused column written by Karen E. Klein yesterday. You an go here to see the column [...]
As you may know, I review business merchant account statements on regular basis. One thing I keep seeing more and more on statements are terms like “Annual Compliance Service Fee” or “PCI Compliance Program.” The shocking thing about these fees is how much they are; I have a statement on my desk that [...]
I had planned to write this post several months ago but we have been so incredibly busy that I had to put this on the back burner. So finally, here is a summary of the key changes that occurred in October to Interchange from Visa, MasterCard:
Master Card
Change #1 – MasterCard will no longer require [...]
