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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. At Stax, our modern payment services focus on going beyond ordinary merchant accounts.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential. In 2015, many merchants switched to NFC-enabled terminals; by 2019, most banks were issuing contactless cards. Tap-to-pay is the future, and Stax Payments offers the front and backend tools to power this progress.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. Final words At Stax, we’re all about helping merchants implement robust payment security that go above and beyond security standards.

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No Fee Payment Processing: Everything You Need to Know

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This figure used to be 24% in 2015 which makes it evidently clear that card usage is on the rise. CardX, which was acquired by Stax in 2021, has an automated surcharging platform. A 2022 survey by the Pew Research Centre found that 41% of consumers don’t use cash for weekly purchases like gas, meals, and groceries.

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What Is a Credit Card Surcharge?

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Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic.

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What Is a Credit Card Surcharge?

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Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic.