Why Card Processing is Important Just look at Interac’s statistics on card processing in Canada: Sixty-five percent of all sales are paid through Debit and/or Credit Cards in Canada. From my five years of experience working with many different businesses this can be much higher. If you have an e-commerce business it’s basically 100%. And [...]
The Critical Canadian Merchant Services Guide – Part 1
Let’s Make an Agreement I have written this guide because I have personally witnessed too many small business owners being taken advantage of when seeking merchant account services. It sickens me to watch good, innocent people being lied to and manipulated with unethical marketing and sleazy sales tactics-all for the sake of securing more business. [...]
Retail Merchant Accounts
Retail Merchant Accounts are for brick-and-mortar types of businesses. They are systems that allow businesses to process credit and/or debit card transactions in real time with instantaneous approvals by swiping cards across the POS Terminal. Traditionally, Point-of-Sale Terminals similar to the one shown at the side here are used. However, some businesses use a PC [...]
POS Software
Point-of-Sale software is available that can be integrated into most PC computers. This is basically a secure website that you can login into through a high speed internet connection (if you use dial-up this may not be the best option for you) and can process ALL types of credit cards. To secure the ‘card present’ [...]
Wireless Credit Card Machine
Wireless Merchant Accounts run on Point-of-Sale units like the one shown on the side here. They connect to cell phone networks, making them able to accept transactions just about anywhere in Canada. This solution allows a merchant to be mobile to process a transaction. while still qualifying for “card present” transactions, which makes their discount [...]
Dial-up Debit Machine
Dial-up Debit Machines connect via any working telephone line. Many merchants use their existing phone line or tap the terminal into their fax line to save additional costs, but if you have a busy location you may want to consider having a dedicated phone line for your Debit Machine. The reason for this: if you [...]
Credit Card Terminals in Canada
A credit card POS Terminal is often a stand-alone piece of digital machine which enables a merchant to swipe or key-enter a credit card’s information at the same time as supplemental details necessary to process a charge card sale A Visa or Mastercard POS Equipment is a dedicated piece of apparatus that only processes credit [...]
Methods of Processing Credit Cards
Nowadays most of charge card transactions are usually delivered in electronic format to merchant processing banks for authorization, capture as well as deposit. Numerous methods exist pertaining to presenting a credit card purchase to the system. In every situations either the whole magnetic strip is read by a swipe through: Credit cards terminal/reader A computer [...]
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