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Understanding Payments

Testing the Surcharging Waters with Empower Lite

Empower Lite is a flexible surcharging program that allows you to pass along just 1% – 3% of your processing costs to customers – instead of the 4% passed along with traditional surcharging.

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Payment Technology

How to Grow Your Business with Clearent Core Plus and SwipeSimple

In today’s economy, business owners need a well thought out payments strategy. Part of that involves having tools that combine payment acceptance with powerful software that helps you run your business more efficiently and profitably than ever before.

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Payment Technology

Clearent Connects: Digitizing Your Entire Wallet

This week on Clearent Connects, we explore why Apple is getting into the ID business…

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Security

SwipeSimple A-80 Terminal Video

Demo of the A-80 Terminal using SwipeSimple

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Payment Technology

Clearent Connects: Apple vs. Epic… Does This Sound Familiar?

Epic, the publisher of Fortnite (the most popular game in the app store), is starting to fight against what they claim as unfair pricing policies in Apple’s app store. Apple just called their bluff by removing their apps.

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Payment Technology

How Smart Terminals Can Take Your Business to the Next Level

In today’s world, smart devices are literally everywhere. From smartphones and smart watches to voice-controlled smart home devices and more, we are increasingly relying on Internet-connected devices to make our lives easier. One area where we’re seeing rapid growth is with smart credit card terminals.

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Understanding Payments

Clearent Connects: Buy Now, Pay Later: What’s the Difference?

On this episode of Connects, Clearent’s own Phil Ricci and Mandy Dunfee discuss the recent overwhelming popularity of the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ service and if small businesses should look to adopt this strategy now or wait until later to get on board.

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Podcasts

Clearent Connects: Updates on the USPS and Stimulus

Update episode this week! We’ll touch on some of our past episodes, and bring new info on how the cost-cutting measures with the U.S. Postal services could affect small businesses going forward.

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Security

SwipeSimple Non-Cash Adjustment Terminal Video

How to use Non-Cash Adjuments with SwipeSimple terminals…

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Security

How the PSD2 Impacts Fraud in the U.S.

When it comes to security in the world of electronic payments, Europe has been ahead of the United States in many ways for several years. The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which sets stricter requirements for authenticating online payments, is another example of their innovation, at least regulatory-wise. While these mandates do not impact American banks, service providers and merchants from a legal standpoint, they definitely raise important points for the U.S. to consider.

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Payment Technology

Clearent Connects: Why the US has to Pay Attention to PSD2 Now

COVID has delayed the second Payment Services Directive, or PSD2, in Europe, allowing card and payment providers to meet new authentication required standards by December 31, 2020. While this effects Euro cardholders by ensuring payments are performed with multi-factor authentication, this also has a reaching effect in the US as we have now become an easier target for fraud and illegal activities.

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