How to Process ACH Payments

How to Process ACH Payments

If you’ve been a merchant for a while, you’ve heard of ACH payments. You might already know that ACH payments move money between bank accounts in the U.S. As a merchant, your business can benefit greatly by setting up ACH payments. This is especially...
What are ACH Payments?

What are ACH Payments?

If you’ve been in business for a while, you’ve heard of ACH payments. Turns out they’re one of the major ways money is moved in the U.S.  In fact, according to Nacha (previously known as the National Automated Clearing House Association), the...
How Merchant Accounts Work

How Merchant Accounts Work

Figuring out how to make your business work can take a lot of effort.   Things get even more confusing when you start thinking about how to move money around. And you probably have a lot of questions, like:    How are you going to accept credit card payments?  What...
Setting Up a Merchant Account

Setting Up a Merchant Account

How to Open a Merchant Account When your business starts to grow, you’ll eventually get tired of issuing paper invoices and relying on slow land mail to collect them.   And at some point, every merchant is going to want to start accepting credit cards.   Before you...
Match List

Match List

The Mastercard MATCH List:  What is it? Credit card processors (ISOs) and acquiring banks have to control fraud somehow, right?  One of the ways they do this is through the MATCH list. The MATCH List is a detailed list of businesses that have had one or more merchant...