Kimberlee Leonard has taken her professional experience as an insurance agency owner and financial advisor and translated that into a finance writing career that helps business owners and ...

As a small business owner, you know that accepting credit cards comes with a cost. Expanding your customer base to cardholders can create massive profits, but it can also swamp you in expensive swipe ...

While many Americans worry about tariffs potentially boosting inflation, merchants continue to warn of a cost increase that's already certain: credit card swipe fees. Banks, card processors and ...

In 2024, a 2.6% processing fee began being collected on all credit and debit card transactions at most city facilities. The extra charge was implemented when the city’s credit card processing vendor ...

Robert Day is the MP at weAudit.com and the author of The Great American Heist: How Credit Card Processors Steal Businesses' Profits. As a merchant, you've probably received calls from companies ...

After JEA's original announcement on processing fees for payments by credit card and debit card drew complaints it would hurt small businesses, the utility lowered the processing fee it will charge ...

JEA's announcement that it will charge a $150 fee when customers pay more than $1,000 by credit card is getting pushback from a City Council member while JEA says it's looking for ways to ease the ...

When it comes to processing credit card payments, you have to spend money to make money. Every player in the payments value chain, including the issuer, acquirer or processor and card network, deducts ...