Accept Cards Limited Achieve FSQS Accreditation
We are excited to announce that acceptcards® has successfully completed the rigorous FSQS certification process, making it a fully registered supplier and demonstrating our commitment and credentials within the financial services industry. What is FSQS? The Helios...
Is your card payment machine still compliant?
On January 1st 2018, a number of card payment machines became non PCI compliant. In simple terms, the affected devices no longer meet the latest card scheme requirements and must therefore be removed and replaced with newer models. Who is affected? Any merchant using...
What you need to know about the new surcharge ban
Due to new legislation and with the exception of commercial cards, from 13th January 2018businesses in the EU will no longer be allowed to apply surcharges to card payments. News of this change has prompted many questions for business owners; “How can we reduce the...
Are you due a ‘Payments MOT’?
We take a closer look at how the latest changes to credit and debit card charges are affecting car garages in the UK. The process of simply getting paid and ensuring you are able to do so in the most beneficial and flexible way possible is not always easy. The...
‘Paytech’ is on the rise… It’s all about convenience
ou could be forgiven for not noticing the increasing popularity of card payments - if you’ve spent the last 10 years living in a cave! The latest statistics from the UK Cards Association show that the use of credit and debit cards in the UK has more than doubled in...
One in four UK card payments now contactless
325 million purchases were made using contactless debit and credit cards in November 2016, accounting for 25% of all card payments in the month. The rise in contactless payments led to a record £2.9 billion being spent using the technology in November. This is an...
Taking a wider choice of payments from non UK customers
A key hurdle for you though is how to ensure that you get paid, given that customers want to buy and pay in lots of different ways, and with the increase in complexity as you sell into more countries? Did you know, for instance, in many large European economies such...
Debit Card Processing Fees have changed
What has changed? EU legislation has forced Visa & MasterCard to reduce the cost price they can charge your merchant service provider for consumer credit card transactions by 0.5% whilst changing the flat pence charge on debit cards from 8p to 0.2%. This is why...
