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Starbuck app under attack from hackers
Single Merchant Digital Wallets provide an expansion of opportunities to engage with consumers, as outline in the article, and helps extend the customer experience beyond the stores and the product. The flip side of this is that it also affords wider chances to...
Googles Android Pay Gets A Major New Partner
The expansion of consumer choice continues for PayPal users. The additional flexibility to users of the technology in how they can fund transactions at the POS to another step with announced partnership. Click Here for details
If you ate at Wendy’s check your bank statment
If you ate at Wendy's in last 2015, check your credit card statements. Malware that targets credit card information infected more than 1,000 locations of the iconic burger restaurant, meaning your order might have come with a side of fraud Here's Why...
MasterCard launches new fraud protection
MasterCard has an e-commerce anti-fraud tool for small and medium sized (SMEs) businesses. Called Simplify Controls, it lets SMEs control, prevent and monitor e-commerce transactions in real time. Get the details here
Is initiating a chargeback always the right thing to do?
Merchants all over the world are currently fighting for your attention. As a credit card holder, you have great power and influence over the ecommerce environment. The businesses you shop with are grateful for your patronage, knowing that your options are virtually...
Why digital money has not killed cash
Never has it been easier to spend your money, if you should happen to have some. The press of a button, the swipe of a card, or the wave of a phone, and it’s done. At PayProTec Ohio we are always keeping our clients ahead of the curve with technology. So why is cash...
Are you a user of prepaid credit cards?
For years, many consumers who used prepaid cards thought of them as an alternative to a checking account. They could buy a prepaid card from a retailer, load money onto it at a grocery store or at a check-cashing outlet and then use it to make payments—up to the...
Is your business vulnerable to credit card fraud?
Do you know the rules when it comes to who is responsible for losses when credit card fraud hits your business? Those rules may hold some surprises for you. For example, you could wind up paying anywhere from $50 to the full amount of the fraudulent transaction. These...
Retailers have chip card readers-why aren’t they using them?
At PayProTec Ohio we have updated all of our merchants with the latest equipment so that they are EMV compliant however millions of retailers are still not using their EMV chip enable terminals. According to the industry group EMV Migration Forum, there are roughly 5...
Retailers and credit card PIN’s
At PayProTec Ohio we are constantly updating our systems and software and looking out for your best interest. As EMV slowly transitions, more consumers are receiving their chip cards, which ultimately will require setting up person identification numbers (PINs) as a...