Some lists you want to be on-like the VIP list. But the TMF is one list you don’t want to be on. We’ll talk about what this means for your business, how to avoid getting on the TMF list and what to do if you end up on it. What is the TMF Match List? […]
Chargeback Effects On My Business It used to be that if you got a faulty product, poor service or were simply double charged, you decided to chargeback the purchase. With today’s economy and fraud on the rise, chargebacks are becoming more main stream and more purchases are being made with stolen cards. Losses of jobs cause people […]
Merchant Account Considered High Risk Many financial institutions are tightening up guidelines and raising fees. These days even acquiring banks are cracking down on various business types. No company wants to take on a possible financial loss. There are merchant services providers out there that specialize in high risk business, but you have to be […]
Post Transaction Marketing – Is It Worth the Risk for eCommerce Merchants? In the first half of 2017, e-commerce revenue amounted to approximately $1,268.9 billion of all retail sales in the U.S., according the U.S. Census Bureau. While e-commerce sales increase from the same period in 2016, the percentage of total retail sales increased from […]
Forrester Research, an independent technology and market research company that provides advice about technology’s impact on business and consumers, recently released estimates on ecommerce growth over the few years. As we see and read about traditional sales dropping all across the nation, ecommerce will continue to grab the lost market share. Forrester said, “When we […]
Even if you’ve never been on the dreaded Terminated Merchant File (also known as the TMF MATCH List, you need to take measures to ensure that you don’t end up on it. How? For starters, rethink whom you do business with. Signing up with the wrong processor greatly increases your chance of landing on the MATCH file, […]
Preventing Chargebacks, How to Do It! Even if you manage to keep your chargebacks below the 1/2 – 1% threshold, any chargeback claims – whether remedied or not – take up precious time researching what happened. I’m sure there are other ways you’d rather spend your time (like focusing on new sales). The best way to […]
Should you have an imprinter on hand? Most businesses seem to think that an old fashioned knuckle buster is not needed. Most merchants don’t want to purchase a manual imprinter, but this decision can end up costing them more in the long run. There are situations in which a credit card imprint is required for […]
While Visa and MasterCard don’t approve merchant accounts, they do hold all the cards – pardon the pun – when it comes to setting chargeback ratios. Chargeback ratios are calculated by dividing your monthly sales by the number of chargebacks or the total dollar amount of the total chargebacks registered in any given month – […]
According to MasterCard’s presentation at the Goldman Sachs US Financial Services Conference on Dec 8, retail sales are showing positive signs – relative to card payment usage. They cited November as the third consecutive month of growth since July, 2008. They attributed the growth to changes in consumer attitudes. Consumers are focusing more on quality […]
