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How InterPayments Helped a Construction Materials Manufacturer Add Surcharging to a Modern Payments Flow in Just One Month
A large manufacturer of construction surfaces was growing rapidly, driving annual revenues of well over $1 billion. But with construction material margins shrinking every year, protecting margins in this growing…
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How an Insurance Company Navigated Regulations to Recover Credit Card Fees with InterPayments
A major insurance company was experiencing a significant change in how it was getting paid: a significant increase in credit card-based transactions. While this wasn’t unusual in the space –…
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How InterPayments Helped an Industrial Materials Distributor Protect Margins on Digital Business
A world leader in industrial materials distribution was seeing significant success with a new, streamlined online sales platform. But this fully digital approach came with a digital-specific challenge: almost all…
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How InterPayments Helped Pitney Bowes Build a More Efficient & Compliant Credit Card Surcharge Process
Pitney Bowes, the market leader in ecommerce shipping and logistics solutions, was looking for a credit card surcharging partner to reduce acceptance costs, especially around services that cost too much…
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Maximizing Surcharging Accuracy
Get indemnified compliance and ensure customer surcharge acceptance with best-in-class credit card verification. Every time a surcharge is issued, a simple question comes first: “Am I allowed to surcharge this…
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Interchange Laws in Limbo: Where Things Stand
A Conversation with InterPayments’ General Counsel Spencer Stiefel Between Illinois’ delayed fee law, Oklahoma’s new surcharging rules, and renewed federal attention on the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA), businesses are…
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The Case for Cost Control: Three Actionable Strategies for B2B Merchants in a Complex Landscape
For today’s B2B merchants, uncertainty and rising costs—from payment processing fees to operational inefficiencies and navigating the changing economic winds of tariffs—are putting increasing pressure on margins. To adapt, companies…
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Surcharging, Convenience Fees, and Service Fees: What Merchants Need to Know
As credit card transactions account for 63% of retail sales and 81% of shoppers prefer card payments over cash, it’s clear that the U.S. is rapidly transitioning to a cashless…
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The Rise of Virtual Credit Cards and Managing Fees: Where Surcharging Fits In
A PYMNTS survey CFOs and treasurers in North America indicates there will be significant virtual card growth in 2025. While only 3.3% are using them today, nearly 14% of respondents…