With card acceptance becoming a near-necessity in vending due to declining cash usage, processing fees can put meaningful ...

Restaurant spending, both when going out and ordering in, can be a significant portion of people’s budgets. Credit cards can help turn that spending into rewards, but with so many cards on the market, ...

Grocers pay a lower rate than other businesses and they tend to have more recurring customers, making them less likely to implement credit card surcharges. The convenience of swiping your credit card ...

Visa and Mastercard are integrating stablecoins directly into their payment networks. The credit card titans are partnering with established issuers rather than creating their own cryptocurrencies.

These days, a lot of restaurant customers pay for food and drinks with a credit card, and they often leave a tip by credit card, rather than leaving cash. Credit card companies usually charge ...

Credit card processing costs typically range from 1.5% to 3.5%, but processor markups can inflate costs. Using interchange-plus pricing can give you more insight than a flat-rate plan. Compare quotes, ...

Sometimes the smallest rule changes hit your wallet the hardest. Missouri wants to tax your payment method. A new proposal from the state Department of Revenue would quietly start taxing not just what ...

I started dating a widow in her late 40s who pays by credit card but immediately transfers the purchase amount to pay off her card, instead of waiting until the end of the month to pay off her balance ...

Ripple is teaming up with Mastercard (MA), WebBank and crypto exchange Gemini (GEMI) to test using its RLUSD stablecoin to settle fiat credit card transactions over a public blockchain. The initiative ...

Some South Carolina diners may be alarmed when they receive their restaurant bill, only to see they’ve been charged extra for paying with a credit card. While some states have outright bans on credit ...

Stephen J. Bronner is a freelance journalist and public relations consultant. Over his more than a decade in the field, he has written articles and guides on retirement, personal finance, mortgages, ...