Payments | Credit Card Topics

Doxo Makes It Safe, Secure, and Simple to Pay All of Your Bills from a Single Account

By: Ashley Dull, 8/17/2018

In a Nutshell: Payment platform doxo provides secure solutions aimed at simplifying the bill-paying process for parties on both sides of the transaction — billers, as well as their customers. Acting as a secure intermediary that facilitates payments between biller and consumer, doxo allows users to pay all their bills from one account with a single login. Billers partnered with doxo can take advantage of real-time payment tracking, free ACH, and the opportunity to build their own... read more »

Debitize Helps Eliminate Late Payments, Overspending, and Interest Fees by Treating Your Credit Card Like a Debit Card

By: Amber Brooks, 8/7/2018

In a Nutshell: When a lot of little credit card purchases get together, they can add up to a big balance -- often without you even realizing it. Rather than ditching your card, retrain your habits with Debitize. Designed for those who swipe-and-forget with their credit cards, frequently miss a due date, or just want more control over their credit card spending, Debitize helps your credit card act more like a debit card by automatically withdrawing the funds to cover each credit card... read more »

Migrant Workers Supporting Loved Ones Back Home Turn to Remitly to Send Larger Remittances & Pay Lower Fees

By: Ray FitzGerald, 6/15/2018

In a Nutshell: More than 3 million migrant workers travel each year to the US alone in search of better employment opportunities and wages to support their loved ones back home. These people often struggle to send money back to their families because of the high fees charged by remittance companies. Remitly saw this trend and created a technology-driven platform that charges as little as $6.99 to send money from the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada to dozens of countries around the... read more »

Worldpay, Inc. & Vantiv Merger Extends Their Global Footprint to Process $1.6 Trillion in Annual Payments Across 146 Countries

By: Ray FitzGerald, 3/8/2018

In a Nutshell: Doing business doesn't come cheap. The charges associated with accepting credit card payments and expenses involved in keeping up with the ever-changing hardware a business needs to remain secure and PCI compliant can quickly eat away at profits and turn a winning operation into a losing venture. Worldpay, Inc. offers a host of hardware and software solutions that support more than 300 payment types in 126 different currencies, making processing payments easy and... read more »

eMDs’ Revenue Cycle Management Services Allow Physicians to Focus Solely on Patients with Billing and Collections Outsourcing Solutions

By: Ray FitzGerald, 3/7/2018

In a Nutshell: Physicians spend years in classrooms and hospital rooms before they earn the right to see patients on their own. But the constant stream of red tape related to medical coding, as well as patient billing and collections, often monopolizes the time providers spend in the office at the expense of their patients’ needs. Now eMDs offers an award-winning suite of healthcare solutions, including its Revenue Cycle Management services that take on the hassle of dealing with... read more »

Retailers Turn to 3dcart for an eCommerce POS Solution that Allows Unlimited Transactions for One Low Monthly Fee

By: Ray FitzGerald, 3/5/2018

In a Nutshell: Today's merchants aren’t limited to brick-and-mortar storefronts to conduct retail transactions. Every second, businesses are making new sales indoors, outdoors, and online around the globe. A reliable point of sale (POS) system and payment processor keeps merchants in business — despite the rising costs vendors pay to accept credit card payments. To help retailers reach their sales goals, 3dcart's e-commerce platform charges one monthly fee based on the number of... read more »

Plastiq Enables More Than 1M North American Customers to Pay Any Bill with a Credit Card for a Flat 2.5% Fee

By: Ray FitzGerald, 2/22/2018

In a Nutshell: In 2012, soon-to-be Harvard graduate Eliot Buchanan was facing the rapid approach of life after college. He needed a business idea that was both useful to users and practical enough to stand the test of time. The answer came to him when he tried to use his credit card to make his final tuition payment, which Harvard rejected citing the high fees charged by card issuers. That's when Plastiq was born. Plastiq — which currently has more than 1 million members in the US... read more »

Kareo’s Medical Billing Solution Earns Our Editor’s Choice™ Award for Its Streamlined Credit Card Processing Abilities and Security

By: Ray FitzGerald, 2/8/2018

In a Nutshell: As many as 27 million US adults are carrying out-of-pocket medical expenses on their credit cards. That number continues to grow as credit cards become the go-to funding option for medical bills. Patients expect physicians and caregivers to accept credit cards on multiple platforms that provide easy and secure access. More than 45,000 US healthcare providers use Kareo, a cloud-based medical billing platform that accepts credit cards in person, over the internet, on... read more »

The Electronic Transactions Association Helps Merchants and Consumers Protect Sensitive Financial Data with Electronic Payments Advocacy and Education – A Conversation with CEO Jason Oxman

By: Ashley Dull, 1/29/2018

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) influences, monitors, and shapes the payments industry through its leadership in education, advocacy, and the exchange of information. The organization’s member companies include many of the top payment processors in the US, including PayPal, Verifone, Visa, and Samsung Pay. Recently, CardRates.com sat down with ETA's CEO, Jason Oxman, who told us a little more about the organization and trends he’s seeing within the payments space. ... read more »

Cashnet® Helps Higher Education Institutions Save Money with Integrated Campus-Wide PCI-Compliant Payment Solutions

By: Ray FitzGerald, 1/3/2018

In a Nutshell: Higher learning institutions process trillions of dollars in payments each year for tuition, fees, campus activities, and other goods and services. The handling of payments in different currencies and funding options, like scholarships, federal loans, and prepaid college savings plans, can be a juggling act for university accounting departments. Blackboard’s Cashnet payment solutions have integrated market-leading campus-wide payment portals for more than 25 years and... read more »

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