Setting Up a Merchant Account? A Quick Fix May End Up Hurting Your Business

As you set up a new business, we know that you have a many options when selecting your merchant bank account provider.

Falling Gas Prices Mean More Money in Consumers’ Pockets—How Your Business Can Benefit

With gas prices at their lowest in a decade, many consumers are finding themselves with a much-appreciated boost in expendable income.

VISA Revenue Up and So Is Chip Card Use — Along With Fraud Costs

An array of studies reveal interesting new “market metrics” for the economy, at least from the payment card side of the equation. Visa revenue in Europe is up 25% — to an all time high, as Pymnts.com reports.

Post-Holiday Slow Downs Give Your Business Time for Strategic 2016 Growth Planning

Now that the holiday rush has passed, your business needs to focus on how to approach the New Year with an eye toward growth and profitability. Are you missing out on some easy strategies for more frequent customer…

A New Year Resolution for More Payment Security?

We’ve been watching the MarketWatch website since the new year kicked off, mostly to track the rather breathtaking gyrations of the stock market…

AVPS Offers Smart Merchant Account Solutions to Help E-Commerce Businesses

With the internet flooded with e-commerce businesses, you need to focus on marketing and growing your brand in order to stand out. But are you still stuck with those necessary…

Season of Reasons — To Offer Credit, and to Use It

We’ve now officially entered autumn — L.A. weather notwithstanding — and soon enough, it will be time to start makin’…

Exploring the Benefits of Accepting Checks Online

There are many different ways to refer to the concept of being able to accept checks online including electronic checking (or e-checks for short), bank-to-bank transfer…

Time: “How Your Credit Card is About to Change Forever”

To be sure, it’s a dramatic headline. And it’s on a subject about which you — as a regular AVPS reader — are already well informed: The one-month-away switch over from the “mag stripe” standard for American credit cards to the “chip-and-pin” EMV variety.