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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Let’s time travel back, just 20 years ago, to the shopping mall. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone. Because of this, outdated POS systems lack the ability to accept NFC-enabled credit and debit cards or mobile wallets.

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Mobile Credit Card Processing Explained: What Business Owners Need to Know

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Merchants can accept payments anywhere with mobile credit card processing, eliminating the need for a fixed point-of-sale terminal. That can mean paying the plumber by credit card in their own house or paying for a sweater with the sales associate who helped them pick it out, rather than going to find the POS desk.

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Beyond PCI Compliance: Why Data Security is Key to Growth and Success [Webinar Recap]

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In our latest webinar, Garrek Harris, Director of Platform Management at Stax, discussed the ins and outs of data security for merchants and ISVs. ” In other words, for merchants, PCI compliance mostly takes place at the point of sale or data storage—i.e., How are we taking that information?” the CRM or ISV software.

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How Much Do Credit Card Companies Charge Merchants?

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Payment processor fees The payment processing company used by the merchant will charge a range of processing fees in exchange for facilitating transactions and providing equipment such as POS (point of sale) and card readers. This is where CardX by Stax comes in. Account fees. PCI compliance fees.