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Stripe Review: Pros, Cons, and Pricing Comparison (2025)

Sep 23, 2024

Stripe Review Stripe is one of the newest big players in the online credit card processing space. But is Stripe right for you and your business? Read on for our insider take—covering its pros, cons, features, and real pricing examples from our clients using Stripe to...

Interchange Fees vs. Assessment Fees: What’s the Difference?

Sep 20, 2024

Interchange Fees vs. Assessment Fees: What’s the Difference? Interchange fees and assessments are two foundational elements in the world of payment processing. Every business that accepts credit and debit cards pays these fees—and both are crucial components to a...

Braintree Review

Sep 18, 2024

Braintree Review: Insider Take and Pricing (2024) Braintree is a technology-forward payment processor headquartered in Chicago. Founded in 2007, Braintree has gone through some significant changes over the years. They purchased Venmo in 2012, and then Braintree was...

American Express OptBlue Rates in Canada

Sep 16, 2024

American Express OptBlue Rates in Canada More than 90,000 merchants in Canada accept American Express. This is just a fraction of the 10.6 million businesses in the US accepting Amex—but it aligns with Amex’s market share amongst Canadians. According to Statista,...

QuickBooks Payment Processing Review: Pros, Cons and Fees (2025)

Sep 12, 2024

QuickBooks Payment Processing Review QuickBooks is best known for its bookkeeping and accounting software. But they also offer a plethora of other tools, including payment processing services for businesses—which is what we’re focusing on for this review. Some of you...

Heartland (Global Payments): Rate Increases, Fees, and Updates — 2025

Sep 11, 2024

Heartland (Global Payments): Rate Increases, Fees, and Updates — 2025 Our team is constantly on the lookout for notices, important messages, and rate updates for all major credit card processing companies. We've compiled all of the most recent news to Heartland and...

Visa Account Name Inquiry (ANI) Fee Explained

Sep 9, 2024

Everything You Need to Know About Visa's Account Name Inquiry Fee Have you seen the Visa Account Name Inquiry Fee on your monthly merchant processing statement? Wondering what it is and if you should be charged for it? Visa doubled this particular pass-through fee in...

Chase Paymentech Review: Pros, Cons, Fees, and More (2025)

Sep 4, 2024

Chase Paymentech Reivew Chase Paymentech is one of the oldest and largest merchant acquirers on the market. With roughly four decades of providing payment solutions, this subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase handles over $1 trillion in processing volume per year. Whether...

Worldpay from FIS Rate Increases, Fees, and Updates (2025)

Sep 1, 2024

Worldpay Price Increase, Fees, and Updates (2025) Worldpay from FIS commonly sends notices to customers about new processing rate increases, changes, and noteworthy updates. Here at Merchant Cost Consulting, we try our best to stay up to date with changes from...

Payment Processing Industry News — August 2024

Aug 26, 2024

August 2024 Payments News Roundup If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that every month I put together a quick roundup of the biggest stories in the payments world. From rate increases to acquisitions, new technology, quarterly earnings reports and...