I had no idea what in the world to “talk” about this week for theeditorial section until Wednesday night. I frequent a webmarketing forum (message board) several times a day andhelp people with their payment acceptance and e-commercequestions. On this particular evening I had a post directed tome saying my views on “such and such” […]

By: Jim Conley II, MerchantSeek.com Search engines come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Thereare your free-submission type search engines like AltaVista,Excite and Google. Then there are your pay-for-inclusiondirectories like Looksmart and Yahoo. Lastly, you have pay-per-click search engines. GoTo.com being the most famousof them all, pay-per-click search engines have been croppingup left and right […]

Originally By: Jim Conley II, MerchantSeek.com Updated May 2, 2012:When merchants apply for a merchant services account, they are often drawn up in confusion by the different rates for retail, Internet and Mail Order/Telephone Order (MOTO) transactions. This is particularly true of the discount rate and per transaction fees that apply to these business models. […]

By: Jim Conley II, MerchantSeek.com It’s a known fact that offering credit card acceptance on yourwebsite is crucial to your online success. Is it enough,though? In some cases probably, but don’t forget, there aremany people who don’t own a credit card. And some don’tfeel safe providing credit card information over the Internet.Do you have a […]

AIRCHARGE releases Revolution NPK. Swiped credit card transactions on CDMA networks with the Kyocera QCP-6035 Palm phone. AIRCHARGE has added a new product called the Revolution NPK. The Palm™ OS based solution is built off of the Kyocera QCP-6035 Palm phone that has converged cell phone with PDA, and now credit card processing. All in […]

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is calling for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council to stop requiring merchants to store card data. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of mandatory requirements for protecting cardholder data, which are governed by the PCI Security Standards Council. These requirements apply […]

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a relatively new initiative backed by Visa, MC, AMEX, Discover, and JCB to ensure best practices of protecting cardholder data. The PCI DSS scanning requirements applies to all merchants that store or process credit card information via the Internet. According to the PCI Compliance Guide […]

An interesting article with PayPal’s founder Peter Thiel reveals that had he known about the difficulties in the payments space, he would have never founded Paypal. Though we aren’t sure of the specific difficulties he is referring to, this article pretty much makes the point that many payment professionals have been trying to make to […]

Emerging technologies are having a major impact on electronic business today. The mainstream adoption of the Europay / MasterCard / Visa, or EMV standard is a prime example. EMV is a global interoperational standard for integrated circuit or “chip” credit cards. The necessary technology to support this standard is poised to elevate the level of […]

Competition in the mobile / contactless / near-field communication payment segment is heating up thanks to the proliferation of hand-held mobile point-of-service (POS) devices and of applications that allow smartphones to function in much the same manner. Some of the major contenders include: PAYMEDIA by Verifone solves the issue of reluctance on the part of […]