In 2015, Laura launched her new business: a bespoke wedding invitation design studio. It was her first business and everything proved a steep learning curve. Early on, she bought a mobile point of sale device (also called a card reader) … Continued
Last month the Payment Systems Regulator launched a review of the UK card acquiring market in order to assess whether it’s working well for merchants.
With non-secure transaction fees creeping up, I conducted a small investigation to discover which acquirers represent the best value for merchants.
In this article, I’m going to look at five popular sales channels for merchant services. I’ll touch on how competitive their pricing is and quickly explain whether or not I’d recommend you use it.
In this article, we’ll look at some of the alternatives to PayPal, which do exactly the same thing but at a much cheaper price.
Another January and yet another card processing fee increase from the acquirers. Why this time? Simply put, because their card scheme fees are going up.
Card processing fees certainly had their ups and downs in 2015 and we had expected 2016 to be relatively quiet. Not so.
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For the last 12 months we’ve been highlighting the extensive changes happening in interchange regulation and how this would give rise to changes in the costs you pay to accept cards and great opportunities to save money by shopping around.
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Most new businesses still go to their high street bank for card processing services without realising this is the most expensive place to go and that the exact same product is available elsewhere at a fraction of the price. Here’s a … Continued
Shopping around for merchant services quotes is a pain, but we’ve now added a new feature to Cardswitcher which takes away the pain, forever! What have we done ? Our Cardswitcher website was an industry first. Nowhere else in the … Continued
