Payment insights for US merchants

A payment gateway is the software layer that authorizes and encrypts card transactions between a customer’s bank and your merchant account. It captures …

A payment gateway is the technology that authorizes a card transaction by securely passing payment data between your customer, your business, the card n…

A merchant account is a specialized bank account that lets a business accept card payments (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover) and move the f…

A credit card payment is a four-party transaction that moves money from a cardholder’s issuing bank to a merchant’s bank account, with the card networks…

QR code payments let a customer pay by scanning a square barcode with a phone camera, which opens a wallet or a checkout page and authorizes the transac…

Contactless payments are card and mobile transactions completed by tapping a card or phone near a reader instead of swiping or inserting a chip. The tec…

Accepting credit card payments means setting up the accounts, hardware, and software that let your business take Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and…

B2B payment processing is the set of merchant accounts, gateways, and data formats that businesses use to accept card payments from other businesses, go…

Invoice payment processing is the system a B2B company uses to send a bill, accept payment against it, and reconcile that payment to the original invoic…

Credit card processing for a small business is the set of services that move money from a customer’s Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express car…