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What Is Interchange Plus Pricing?
If you’re familiar with merchant accounts you’ve probably heard the term interchange and interchange plus pricing....
Retail Merchant Account – Intro, Rates & Terminals
A retail merchant account is a specific type of account reserved for businesses that accept payments from their...
How To Calculate Effective Rate
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
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
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
Merchant account terms and general merchant services terminology can often be confusing and difficult to understand.
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September 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: CardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Credit Card Surcharges - CardPointe Secure...
August 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: CardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Customizing and sending receipts with...
PayPal Fees vs Merchant Account – The $3,000 Rule to Decide When It’s Good to Use PayPal
Believe it or not, there are times when I recommend using PayPal. It’s a good option for some...
What is a Payment Gateway?
If you’re selling things online, you’ve undoubtedly come across the term payment gateway, so let’s...
July 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: CardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Set Pay Now buttons for your hosted payment...
June 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: CardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Look what you can do with your free...
May 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: Monthly Video Message from BrianCardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Open...
April 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: Monthly Video Message from BrianCardPointe Tips/Tricks/Reminders: Take...
March 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
In This Newsletter: *NEW* Monthly Video Message from BrianCardPointe...
February 2021 – Email Newsletter – “ENEWS”
Starting this month, I will be including a short personal video that contains a message with important news, information and tips about your merchant account, CardPointe software and general payment acceptance topics.
Chargeback Prevention (pt 2) – 15 More Ways to Avoid Chargebacks
This is part 2 of a series on chargeback prevention. In the first video and blog post, I covered...
Chargeback Prevention (pt 1) – 17 Ways to Avoid Chargebacks
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
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!
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
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.