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There are times when merchants need a quick infusion of cash to help cover upcoming expenses, whether those include: 

Topics: Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

Chargebacks are becoming one of the biggest payment challenges for businesses of all sizes today. While some chargebacks are completely legitimate, it turns out that fraudsters have figured out a way to get more free merchandise using this refund technique. This becomes especially true when it turns out that credit card issuers, like banks, often rule for the cardholder (or fraudster posing as the card holder). Although any business can fall victim to this type of fraud, there are some businesses that have been identified as being more likely to be affected. These businesses are then labeled high risk by credit card processing companies and must contend with higher fees or the inability to even get a merchant account.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

According to The Nilson Report, payment fraud exceeded $24 billion in 2016, with the lion’s share of those losses occurring in the United States. The problem figures to get worse, with experts predicting payment fraud to surpass $31 billion worldwide by 2020 — hacking strategies continue to evolve as thieves become more creative.

Topics: PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

More cases of compromised credit card information in recent data breaches are impacting the ever-increasing requirements of the proper handling of cardholder data.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, PCI Compliance and Fraud Prevention, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips

Running a business takes the assistance of many stakeholders, including vendors that can provide you with products and services that maintain your operations. Although it seems like having multiple vendors can provide you with more competitive pricing and service offering, it actually makes more fiscal sense to consolidate vendors so that you work with as few as possible.

Topics: Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments

BluePay is pleased to bring you this valuable information from our partner, Due, makers of a free digital wallet that allows users to easily make and accept payments online.  Whether you see yourself as a salesperson or not, if you have a business, including working as a freelancer or startup founder, you are in sales. Essentially, to get revenue of any kind for a product or service, you have to sell what you are offering to an audience. You must convince them to buy from you instead of anyone else that does something similar. Some may find it easy to sell anything to anybody while others struggle with the concept.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Guest Blog Posts, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments

For many types of transactions, cash is still king. But paper money continues to fall out of favor as more consumers embrace alternative payment methods. In fact, roughly 10 percent of American shoppers don’t carry any cash on them. And of those who do hold money:

Topics: Payment Technology, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments

BluePay is pleased to bring you this valuable information from our partner, Due, makers of a free digital wallet that allows users to easily make and accept payments online. With more business being conducted online, the risk for fraud goes up. That’s because fraudsters see the opportunities to try and get something for nothing, and many have found a way to do that thanks to something known as chargebacks.

Topics: Due.com Partner Posts, Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments

There was a time when cash was king. Then along came checks, credit cards, ACH and countless other payment options.

Topics: Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments, Payment Trends, Awareness

BluePay is pleased to bring you this valuable information from our partner, Due, makers of a free digital wallet that allows users to easily make and accept payments online. If you plan on processing credit cards online or in your store, you will quickly learn that there are always fees involved. Sometimes, there’s a lot of fees, especially if you don’t do your homework and find a merchant credit card processing company or top payments company that understands the importance of providing value and creating long-term, mutually beneficial relationships over getting the largest profit margin for themselves.

Topics: Small Business Tips, Enterprise Business Tips, Getting Started with Payments