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February 2008 - Posts

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  What to Show Your Customer When a Transaction is Declined While processing a credit card payment, if the transaction is declined for any valid reason, such as an AVS or CVV mismatch response, you have to decide what to show your customer. This may sound like a very simple thing to do, however, one wrong word can drastically impact a customer’s desire to change their information and try again. It was earlier recommended to give a visitor a single response for any decline, AVS mismatch, error or otherwise. Depending on how your customers react to their transaction... Read More... Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 09:59 AM Tags: Credit Cards

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  PIN and Signature Debit Acceptance Debit card use has soared in recent years. Debit cards subtract money directly from a customer’s checking account for each transaction. Many consumers prefer debit cards as a budgeting tool, boosting debit card usage 12 percent annually. PIN Debit or Online Debit involves payment processing in which the customer is required to swipe his debit card and also enter the PIN or Personal Identification number. This is possible through the usage of a credit card terminal or POS software system with an attached... Read More... Published: Friday, February 15, 2008, 02:04 PM Tags: Credit Cards

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  Using a Nurit 2085 The Nurit 2085 is a popular credit card terminal, known for its reliability, features, ease of use and functionality. This credit card terminal is compact and flexible, also customizable, to make for increased efficiency. The 4 soft keys and 4 hot keys, along with an in-built printer, make for speed and efficiency. Sometimes, for reasons of their own, processors insist that a merchant must upgrade his credit card terminal. A change makes sense if your terminal has phased out and is no longer supported... Read More... Published: Monday, February 11, 2008, 01:29 PM Tags: Credit Cards

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  Merchant Account Helps Increasing Sales For an Internet or e-commerce site to be successful, merchants must handle their electronic transactions well. A flexible method of accepting payments goes a long way to generate the majority of e-commerce related traffic. Earlier, several businesses were restricted and could not tap the potential consumer market because of the way they accepted there on-line payments, Today, all that has changed with the advent of newer payment gateways and on-line transaction sites. Web masters now accept almost... Read More... Published: Wednesday, February 06, 2008, 08:24 AM Tags: Merchant Account Services