There are actually 38 iPhone credit card processing apps on the App store today. How do you decide which one to use? Well that depends on a couple of things. The majority of the iPhone credit card processing apps (the free ones) on the app store work exclusively with their own merchant services company (or [...] [...more]
There must be tens of thousand of people catching wind of the social media revolution on a daily basis and rightfully so. When you see headlines like “Facebook User Base Surpasses 500 million Users” you would probably feel crazy for not wanting to pay attention. So you sign up for a Twitter and Facebook account [...] [...more]
If you are a retail merchant, most of your credit card transactions are "Swiped" through (and not "keyed-In) and that means you need to make sure that you have a PCI Compliant PIN pad to accept PIN-based debit transactions. Why should I buy a PIN Pad? [...more]
By Claes Bell The U.K. is all abuzz about “chip and PIN,” but it’s not a popular pub snack or a nickname for the newest celebrity power couple. It’s the credit cardsecurity system rolled out in recent years to stem a wave of credit card crime. Chip and PIN replaces the credit card system we’re used to [...] [...more]
By DIANA RANSOM Stroll into the Ula Café, a neighborhood coffeehouse in Jamaica Plain, Mass., and you might notice an unusual sign prominently posed on the cash register. The note informs customers that every time they pay with plastic, it costs the coffee shop about 25 cents. Please, asks the sign, reserve use of your [...] [...more]
by Harvey Raybould At his peak, notorious Tweeter Stephen Fry had 1.2 million followers on social media site Twitter, and was keenly following many hundreds himself. He was rarely able to respond to more than a handful of replies (Tweets) he received. Is it any wonder that he recently announced he was taking a break [...] [...more]
Come Join us at Woody’s Wharf this Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 11:30am to eat some great food, a couple mimosas and network with Orange County business owners and marketeers! First TWEEP to arrive will win FREE CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH! Courtesy of MerchantJuice.com Check out the TWTVITE and we’ll see you there! [...more]
(January 11, 2010) The struggling U.S. contactless card market took another blow late last year when leading consumer-electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc. stopped accepting the Visa payWave contactless card, reportedly because it objected to paying Visa Inc.’s signature-debit interchange rates. Best Buy’s action probably cost the retailer nothing in lost sales but sends a [...] [...more]
