Card Use Slows in Summer, Yet New Ways to Spend on Horizon

We always like when two seemingly unrelated bits of news emerge to make a pattern, or perhaps two points on a related map. On the one hand, we have another report from the Fed that, as Reuters puts it, “growth in U.S. consumer credit slowed for the second straight month in July, held back by a decline in a measure of credit card usage that hinted at a mood of caution among consumers.”

Make Paper Checks a Thing of the Past

In today’s world, many things are done electronically such as buying and selling items and video chatting with your friends and family thousands of miles away. Whether you have been in business for 15 years or 5 months, you probably have, or need to, integrated some form of current technology into your business to stay current and ensure you don’t lose business due to lack of payment options.

Online, or In-Store, Your Customers Shop With Devices In Hand

Online, or In-Store, Your Customers Shop With Devices In Hand The Blurring Lines Between Online and Offline Shopping Online marketing…

Smart Phones Make it Easy to Accept Credit Card Payments Anywhere

It is amazing how far we have come in the technological age in such a short time. The first cellular phones came to the market in the 80’s. At that time, analog was the only frequency available and portable phones were only a vision. Digital phones came about in the 90’s and have grown increasingly popular ever since.

Changes in Attitude, and in Credit Score Latitude

Two news items this week show that your customers relationship to the credit cards they use to buy from you are changing. And also, more of them might be deemed worthy of that credit that previously thought.