Monthly Archives: April 2009

Visa Revokes PCI Compliance of Noncompliant Processors

Posted on April 25, 2009 by admin

Heartland Payment Systems and RBS Worldway,   processors who recently suffered massive data breaches,  had their PCI DSS compliance standards revoked by Visa Inc on March 13, 2009, according to industry trade journal The Green Sheet. Visa also announced that … Continue reading →

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Merchant Rates and Fees to Increase

Posted on April 22, 2009 by admin

Mastercard Worldwide and Visa Inc. have both announced revised fees and Interchange adjustments that are expected to ultimatey increase merchants cost of accepting credit card payments, as reported in the April 13, 2009 edition of the trade publication The Green … Continue reading →

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Difficulty Obtaining a Merchant Account?

Posted on April 20, 2009 by admin

Having difficulty obtaining a merchant account? Have you applied for a credit card merchant account and been declined? Many prospective merchants, particularly those with poor credit,  who process or are located overseas, or who are otherwise undesirable for mainstream US … Continue reading →

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Attention QuickBooks 2006 Users

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

Support for QB 2006 To End May 31, 2009 Many of our merchants use the fine credit card processing program linked to QuickBooks software.  Info and sign-up links for this program are found at http://www.MerchantServices-help.com/quickbooks.html The 3 year “sunset cycle” … Continue reading →

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