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The ViewPoint Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 3

Merchant Services. The term might make you shrug, shriek or roll your eyes.

Regardless of how you perceive it, merchant services (i.e., credit card processing) has become a necessary staple for most medical practices today.  Yet there is still a great deal of confusion on exactly what fe...

Whether you’re an e-commerce merchant, service provider, or utility company, it’s not uncommon to put your regular customers on a recurring billing schedule. Doing so allows you to easily accept payments in the future — without requiring your customers to re-enter their payment data with each transaction.

Over time, however, your customers’ payment informa...

BluePay, an award-winning payment processor specializing in serving financial institutions and their customers, is pleased to announce The American Bankers Association (ABA) – through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking – has endorsed its merchant processing solution.

The announcement comes the first full day of the ABA Annual Convention, O...

In two earlier articles (here and here), we explained that the best way to deal with data breaches is to not let them happen in the first place. Pre-emptive mea

NAPERVILLE, IL (May 6, 2016) - BluePay, a well-known leader in the payment processing industry dedicated to delivering secure integrated payments technology, is honored to announce that they have been named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in the Information Technology Team of the Year category, as well as a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Customer Servic...

Any time you begin accepting credit cards within your business, you can expect to pay certain fees. These charges can sometimes become complicated. Though the more you understand how card processing fees work, the better positioned you are to negotiate better rates or dispute unnecessary charges.

The following is a breakdown of the most common credit car...

EMV (i.e., chip card reader capability) is simply a liability shift (not a mandate, and no fines or penalties will be levied).  It also does not mean that you are unable to accept payment without implementing it.  This is the biggest misconception we have come across recently in our communication with both current and prospective clients.  Most people wer...