Small businesses need to understand how to lower credit card processing fees, secure better terms, prevent fraud and avoid ...

Accepting credit cards requires a payment processor like Square or Stripe, a merchant account, and hardware like POS ...

There’s no free way to accept card payments. However, there are multiple options for keeping processing costs down. NerdWallet's content is fact-checked for accuracy, timeliness, and relevance by ...

During the roughly three years since the pandemic, small-business owners have struggled with higher labor costs, increasing rents, and inflation-driven spikes in the prices of supplies. But many ...

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Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.

Credit card processing scams come in all forms. They can be a phone call from an alleged merchant service provider saying your card terminal needs updating or an email offering rate reductions.

A third of small businesses in the U.S. are now adding surcharges to credit card transactions, according to a recent J.D. Power survey. The data analytics firm surveyed 3,841 U.S. small businesses in ...

Credit card 'swipe fees' are a significant expense for small businesses, often second only to labor costs. These fees, typically 1.5% to 3.5% of a sale, cost U.S. businesses billions annually. Visa ...

Whether you tap or swipe, small businesses in San Luis Obispo say they’re paying the price of rising credit card fees, and it’s cutting into their bottom line. On Higuera Street, Neal Stuckey and his ...