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Unlock the Full Potential of your Payment Data with TokenEx and acceptcards® How businesses handle payment data can significantly impact their operations, security, and costs. Owning your payment data is essential to fully unlock your payment stack and enable strategic payment processing. Businesses that don’t own their payment data and instead store it with their […]

Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have started life across the pond, but this retail phenomenon is firmly a major shopping event here in the UK, with many retailers offering huge discounts on a wide range of products. While this can be a great opportunity to save money, it’s also important to be aware of […]

Unearthing Savings and Efficiencies: In July, the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) introduced regulations that have now become statutory. These regulation mandates all major payment providers, (Adyen, AIBMS,  Barclays, Chase, Clover, Elavon, EVO Payments, Global Payments, Lloyds Bank, PayPal, Square, Stripe, SumUp & Worldpay) that adhere to the code of conduct, to offer greater transparency on […]

Maximising Savings and Efficiency with the Visa Merchant Performance Program In today’s ever-changing business landscape, staying competitive and financially efficient is paramount for any enterprise, that’s why we’re excited to share a little-known payment secret “Visa’s Merchant Performance Program” and explore what it means for businesses that take card payments. The Visa Merchant Performance Program: […]

Why Reviewing Your Payments is Important – Pay By Bank Special In today’s world of rising operational costs, staying ahead of the competition often means making strategic choices that not only streamline operations but also enhance profitability. One area that often goes overlooked but holds immense potential for cost reductions is payment processing. In this […]

🦁⚽ The success of England’s Lionesses making it to the World Cup final, this Sunday (11am KO) isn’t just a fantastic footballing spectacle, it’s also giving a tremendous boost to our local economy! 💳🙌 Retailers Rejoice: As Sarina Wiegman’s lionesses celebrate history, with stars like Bronze, Daly, Earps, Hemp, Russo and Toone now preparing to […]

Could Pay by Bank (Using Open Banking) Replace Contactless Payments? Introduction In recent years, contactless payments have revolutionised the way we pay for goods and services, this payment method was accelerated during the global Covid-19 pandemic, as it offered convenience, speed, and security. However, technology continues to advance, and new concepts are emerging, Pay by […]

☎  Businesses contact us almost daily because their card payment rates have risen. 🔍 We urge all businesses to check what they are being charged as not everyone realises until they ask us to look at things for them. 🐟 A perfect example of this is how we recently worked with Chris Yiallourou, owner of […]

The team were reflecting on last week’s 2-day Charity Retail Association Conference at the Harrogate Convention Centre, hard to believe it’s been a week, time has flown by so quickly. Hats off to Anna Pashley & the CRA team for looking after us. Lots of positive activity with follow-up calls & emails done, with meetings […]

This week sees some of the team heading to Harrogate to attend The Charity Retail Association conference. We are excited to announce the introduction of a stand-alone card machine for charity retailers which is enabled to access The Charity Shop Gift Card scheme. This will allow charities without a “terminal integrated epos” to join the […]