B2B, Credit Card Processing

Level III Credit Card Processing: Large Tickets, B2G, and Purchasing Cards

Visa and Mastercard have separate interchange categories for level III transactions, so providing all of the required information can result in savings if your business accepts a lot of cards that are level III eligible. However, not all cards are level III eligible, and not all gateways are capable of passing level III data. Let’s […]

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Level III (or level 3) data refers to providing specific line item details at the time of a purchasing card or government card transaction beyond what is required for consumer card transactions.

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Accounting and Finance, B2B

What Is Behalf? Receive a Loan to Pay Your Vendors

Note: As of 2023, Behalf’s website is not active, nor is its partner page with Amazon AWS, and it appears that the company may no longer be operating. We’re leaving this article for historical purposes at this time. It’s similar to companies offering point-of-sale loans to finance purchases (see our Affirm review for more info […]

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Smaller B2B companies know the money constraints of net terms. Behalf offers short-term financing for B2B purchases to help ease the pain.

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B2B, Credit Card Processing

What is First Data’s Comm Card I/C Savings Adj?

First Data and its sales channel Ignite Payments announced a new service. It’s called the Commercial Card Interchange Service, and the goal is to help you reduce interchange fees on certain transactions made with a commercial credit card. In exchange for helping you save money on commercial transactions, First Data/Ignite takes 50% of the reduction […]

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If you’re seeing a line on your processing statement labeled “COMM CARD I/C SAVINGS ADJ” or “COMM CARD INTCHG SERVICE,” you’re probably wondering what that is.

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B2B, Credit Card Processing

B2B Transactions: Level 2 and Level 3 Credit Card Processing

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is – if you take business credit cards, you can qualify for better rates. B2B transactions don’t have to cost more. Note: Unfortunately, in October 2017, Visa raised its rates for some commercial transactions and businesses won’t save as much by providing Level 2 or Level […]

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You have probably been told that business credit cards are expensive to process. What you haven’t been told is that there are steps you can take to get lower pricing.

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B2B, Credit Card Processing

CardPointe by CardConnect

In July of 2016, businesses may have noticed a new fee on statements: the CardPointe fee. Charged by CardConnect, the CardPointe fee is a monthly charge that may be added to existing processing fees. What is it, does it affect you, and what are your options? Let’s take a look. What is the CardPointe fee? […]

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CardPointe is a processing solution available through CardConnect, designed to make transaction processing easier and safer.

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