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The Hypercom T7P Friction
Your business relies upon the equipment and networking you use for all of your merchant credit card processing. If it’s not reliable, or doesn’t serve its purpose, it’s not doing you any favors and in fact, could potentially hurt your business.
We know how important the “total package” is and that’s why FDIS offers a wide [...]
Changes are Coming!
The past decade has shown us just what technology can do for every aspect of our daily lives. Look around you, there is very little, if anything, that’s not inclusive of some degree of technology. Our news gathering methods are no longer limited to the 5 o’clock news; we want it when we want it [...]
Reducing Errors and Potential for Fraud
Good merchants know part of their responsibility to their customers is taking an active role in protecting any sensitive information collected during a transaction. Odds are, you, as a merchant, have taken great pains to ensure your employees are trained and are made aware of potential problems and pitfalls they should avoid. Here are a [...]
Missed Opportunities?
In the past, we’ve discussed the importance of having an online presence. The biggest reasons some smaller businesses resist this opportunity is because they’re not sure how complicated the internet credit card processing efforts will be. They’re not sure if it will blend seamlessly with what they already have to process credit card payments and [...]
Exciting Ways to Grow Your Business – the FDIS Way!
We’ve discussed in previous posts the value in offering prepaid or gift cards to your clientele. As you might already know, you enjoy increased traffic, you build brand recognition and because these cards are reloadable, recipients of what might have began as gift cards can easily be reloaded to define more of a prepaid spending [...]
Credit Card Fraud
Ever wondered what would happen if one of your customers became a victim of credit card fraud due to a vulnerability at your place of business? Could the relationship ever be repaired or would that be one customer lost forever? Take a look at some of the sobering statistics:
A full 43% of consumers who become [...]
Encryption and Tokenization – What it is and Why it Affects Your Business
You work hard to ensure your business serves its purpose to your clientele; you want to be sure the faith they place in you is never jeopardized. You invest in the best merchant credit card processing services and you made the choice to team with FDIS. Still, though, you wonder about what some of those [...]
Multi Currency Credit and Debit Card Processing Systems
Technology has ensured the world has become a smaller place, in a virtual kind of way. Today, your small business may have clients located around the world. This might have seemed impossible as recently as a decade ago, but today, it’s not uncommon at all. The problem many businesses have encountered is how to convert [...]
Update on Efforts of Streamlining Government Payments
In a previous post, we discussed the government’s efforts, via reloadable open loop payments, of streamlining its ability to disburse the billions of dollars in payments it makes for any number of reasons on a monthly basis. The goal is to reduce the tons of paper it uses to mail traditional paper checks by replacing [...]
This Week’s Featured Terminal
This week’s featured terminal is the RDM EC6014 Check Imager with Franker. The compact design, accessibility to the most used point of sell terminals and the latest in image technology make this the perfect addition to your business credit card processing suite. It’s ideal for check cashing services, bill payment processing and any other imaging [...]