PCI-compliance is a vital step towards your business success, and that is why you should complete the SAQs and AOCs before the year ends. You do not only hold proof that you are PCI-compliant but you also avoid paying non-compliance fees from merchant account providers by being non-compliant. You can be charged up to $40 per month if you are non-compliant.
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Top 7 Things to Look for in Choosing a Payment Processor
Any business owner or merchant would always look at their return on investment or ROI as their main measure of success, and one of the fool-proof ways to secure their ROIs is to make sure that money keeps pouring into the business from all directions. This is...
Top 4 Benefits of Having a Great Payment Processor
Payment processors are companies, usually third-party, that handle payment transactions between the merchant and customer by relaying payment information from the customer to the merchant’s bank account. They enable merchants to receive debit or credit card payments online by providing a connection to an acquiring bank.
Merchant Services: How to Choose the Best Provider For Your Business
In the merchant services industry, the scene is so active and almost saturated that merchants no longer felt the need to fear that a certain company will monopolize the industry, which sometimes leads to underwhelming services that are left unchecked.
How Setting Up e Check Services Can Help You
e Check is a mode of payment that relies on the ACH network to process payments. With e Check, money is withdrawn from the payer’s checking account, transferred over to the ACH network, and then deposited into the merchant’s checking account.
Our Give Back Story: Providing Better Learning Spaces for Kids in the Philippines
Two meters long and 10 meters wide, with a decent enough yet unfinished wall on one side, a makeshift chalkboard on the other, a bamboo fence on the third side, and fresh earth for a floor. This is the only space Anecita Awitan could claim as her daycare center at...
How are eChecks and ACH Different from Each Other?
With innovation and technology, those specializing in merchant services have found modern ways for merchants to process payments securely. This has allowed businesses to reduce their reliance on traditional banking and use more electronic means to make transactions....
Our Volunteer Journey with Working Wardrobes
As a company whose lifetime slogan is “Transactions that Give,” Agapay wants to(remove to state the sentence as currently active and not a future tense) helps spread the culture of giving through the volunteer work that we do every month. We are so(change to “highly”) committed on this mission that we already contributed over 100 hours of volunteer time to over 10 nonprofits since we started out in 2012.
Beyond EMV: Other Fraud Mitigation Measures
Highlights: This is the third and last part of a blog series we created as part of a global campaign for #FraudWeek The first part of the series explores fraud and fraud-related chargebacks The second part of the series talks about EMV technology and its contribution...
Fraud Awareness 101: Mitigating Fraud with EMV Technology
Highlights: This is the second part of a blog series we created as part of a global campaign for #FraudWeek The first part, which explores fraud and fraud-related chargebacks, can be read here Previously, we talked about fraud, fraud-related chargebacks, and how they...
What is Fraud and What Are Fraudulent Chargebacks?
While technology created the space that allows for seamless financial transactions between clients and merchants, it has also become a cause for abuse. It has provided another area of opportunity for potential criminals to leech on, most of which are fraudulent in...
Why the Square Price Increase is Something to Watch Out For
Since late September, the financial services world was a bit shaken up when popular mobile payment company, Square Up (or simply known as Square), just hit its small business owner clients with an enormous price increase. Merchants, most of which with low volume...