Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in ...

The best credit card processing companies offer simple processing services at reasonable rates to small business owners. These companies also need to provide certain features, such as reporting ...

Credit card processing fees range 1.7-2.05% in-person and 2.25-3.25% online. PCI non-compliance costs $10-100/month; security breach audits average $36,000.

There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

Credit cards are an essential form of payment for millions of Americans, and processing credit card transactions is an unavoidable requirement for merchants. However, each swipe comes with fees ...

Payment processing has significantly changed since my partner, Dave, and I began selling merchant services in 2001. Back then, we made money by leasing and selling equipment. Over time, we broadened ...

Thanks to its low interchange-plus rates and rate-lock guarantee, National Processing is our best pick for a credit card processor with low rates. We chose National Processing as the credit card ...

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

This week Ephraim Schwartz reports on “business process utility,” an outsourcing concept showcased in a recent Gartner study. The idea behind BPU is that companies will increasingly buy certain ...

National Processing offers low transaction rates and a rate-lock guarantee for credit card processing, making it the best pick for cost-conscious businesses that need to avoid high transaction fees.