contactless payments

Merchant Services: Trend Towards Contactless Payments

You’ve most likely seen these icons at hundreds of major restaurants, grocery stores and retailers including ExxonMobil gas stations, McDonald’s, Macy’s, Panera Bread and Whole Foods, so what do these icons mean and should your business be jumping on board? In short, these icons are used by merchants around the globe to indicate they have […]

EMV Smart Chip Reader

Does Your Business Need EMV (Smart Chip) Terminals?

As reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, front page of the Business Section in Sunday’s Aug. 2nd paper, “Chips Coming to Cards’ Defense“; “Oct. 1 is the deadline for banks to re-issue 1.2 billion credit and debit cards that are in circulation in the United States with new cards that contain fraud-resistant computer chips. And […]