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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

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Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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Tap to Pay: What It Is and How It Works

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Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. Contactless payments became a must-have during COVID. NFC technology is in the midst of an evolution.

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No Fee Payment Processing: Everything You Need to Know

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This figure used to be 24% in 2015 which makes it evidently clear that card usage is on the rise. This may be concerning for certain types of businesses as they need to spend more to process credit and debit card payments as compared to cash.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. Yet, while time has provided customers and businesses with more education on the security benefits of EMV card chips, many businesses and consumers are still confused about key components.

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Everything You Need to Know About Credit Card Processing

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Credit card processing can be overwhelming, expensive, and confusing. And yet, accepting non-cash forms of payments is more or less required to operate a modern business, at least in the U.S. Credit, debit, and digital payments have far and away become the most popular payment method.

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What is 3D Secure Authentication and How Does It Work

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Those domains are; The issuing bank The retailer The 3DS (3D Secure) infrastructure platform that sits in between (Verified by Visa, etc.) Regardless of what you call it, all of these systems are based around the same underlying technology, and they each provide an extra layer of security when processing online payments.

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What Is a Credit Card Surcharge?

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Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. Purchase volumes through credit cards jumped 51% between 2015 and 2021. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. The rate varies between 1.3 in most US states.