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Retail Merchant Account – Intro, Rates & Terminals

By Brian Manning | Jun 25, 2013 | 4 min read

A retail merchant account is a specific type of account reserved for businesses that accept payments from their...

How To Calculate Effective Rate

By Brian Manning | Jun 25, 2013 | 3 min read

Monitoring your effective rate is important and knowing how to calculate effective rate is even more important. If I...

What is a Payment Gateway? – Introduction

By Brian Manning | Jun 19, 2013 | 3 min read

Simply put, a payment gateway is an online software program. It serves the purpose of securely passing sensitive data...

Merchant Account Proposal – Sams Club Merchant Account

By Brian Manning | Jun 9, 2013 | 3 min read

Recently, a client of mine sent me an email requesting that I explain a Sams Club merchant account proposal because it...

Merchant Account Terms – Glossary

By Brian Manning | Jun 2, 2013 | 6 min read

Merchant account terms and general merchant services terminology can often be confusing and difficult to understand.

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Chargeback Prevention – 17 Ways to Avoid Chargebacks – Part 1

by Brian Manning | Oct 24, 2020

Chargeback disputes are part of doing business.
This is part of a chargeback series and purpose of the series is to help you gain a total understanding of what chargebacks are, how they work and how to manage them at your business.

Merchant Account Cash Discount Program – Signage, How it works & Pricing

by Brian Manning | Oct 8, 2020

There are cash discount merchant account programs that now operate like a surcharge program.

Cash Discount Program vs. Merchant Account Surcharge vs. Convenience Fee – What is the difference!

by Brian Manning | Oct 1, 2020

There are distinct differences between cash discount, surcharge, and convenience fee merchant account programs.

They’re often misunderstood and talking about as though they are interchangable so in effort to clear up the differences we’re going to discuss the 3 of them today.

CardPointe Tutorial – How To Open a Support Ticket

by Brian Manning | Sep 24, 2020

If you have a question about your CardPointe account or need support in any way, you have the ability to open a support ticket yourself right from your own account dashboard.

5 Reasons to Stop Using PayPal

by Brian Manning | Sep 19, 2020

Stop using PayPal if you’re an established business. It’s fine to pay a pay a friend or get started in business otherwise it’s risky to use

CardPointe Tutorial – 3 Ways To Store a Credit Card Number On File

by Brian Manning | Sep 18, 2020

Storing a customer card for future use is easy to do with CardPointe. It’s within the Virtual Terminal and it’s PCI Compliant.

Merchant Account Questions – What happens to my data?

by Brian Manning | Sep 16, 2020

We receive lots of questions about merchant accounts and payment systems. Sometimes they're...

10 Things Infusionsoft Can Do For You – Infusionsoft Features

by Brian Manning | Sep 15, 2020

#Infusionsoft Features & benefits – 10 things Infusionsoft can do for you and reasonas to use Infusionsoft by Keap as your CRM

Credit Card Authorization Forms – Free Templates [Download]

by Brian Manning | Sep 14, 2020

Using credit a card authorization form to collect payments is an outdated and non-compliant way of...

CardPointe HPP Tutorial – Add HTML, Text, Terms & Conditions Checkbox

by Brian Manning | Feb 7, 2019

Welcome to another CardPointe training video blog post. The topic today is the CardPointe hosted...

CardPointe Hosted Payment Page Editor – Introduction & How To Use It

by Brian Manning | Jan 31, 2019

When you set up your CardPointe hosted payment page you get access to a page editor that allows...

7 Ways To Accept Credit Card Payments Without a Website

by Brian Manning | Nov 16, 2018

The short answer is: No, you don’t need a website to accept credit card payments, and I’m gonna demonstrate that in this video and blog post but you do need access to a software service that is online that is yours to use.