Cost saving

With non-secure transaction fees creeping up, I conducted a small investigation to discover which acquirers represent the best value for merchants.

We haven’t written about the wider card reader market (or mobile point of sale market) for a couple of years. The market has been a little static and there’s been too much going on elsewhere with EU interchange reductions, corporate … Continued

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.

Visa has reduced interchange on UK consumer debit cards by 1p and will remove the additional non-secure fee of 10p per transaction on some transactions.

Card processing fees certainly had their ups and downs in 2015 and we had expected 2016 to be relatively quiet. Not so.

Global Payments has now written to merchants advising of new pricing starting 1 January 2016. Many observers and merchants had expected material fee reductions in light of the EU’s new interchange cap legislation effective 9 December 2015.  What we are seeing … Continued