by Gwyn Johnson | Sep 10, 2026 | General Merchant Processing, Industry Trends, Marketing
If you’ve noticed your payment processor suddenly offering a lot more than card processing, you’re not imagining things. Across the industry, card-issuing platforms that were once built to do one thing, process card transactions, are rapidly expanding into...
by Gwyn Johnson | Sep 8, 2026 | General Merchant Processing
A merchant application tells you more than most people bother to read. Before underwriting ever sees the file, the partner who submitted it had every signal they needed to know whether this merchant would board clean, stall in review, or blow up the portfolio six...
by Gwyn Johnson | Sep 2, 2026 | General Merchant Processing
A merchant statement looks like a wall of numbers until you know what you’re looking at. Once you do, it’s the fastest way to catch a pricing problem before it costs a merchant real money, or before it costs you a residual you’re owed. THE BASICS: WHAT’S ACTUALLY ON...
by Gwyn Johnson | Aug 27, 2026 | General Merchant Processing
If you’re an ISV weighing how to monetize payments, you’ve probably run into four terms that get thrown around: referral, gateway, ISO, and PayFac. Each one changes how much revenue you keep, how much risk you take on, and how much operational work lands on your team....
by Gwyn Johnson | Aug 12, 2026 | General Merchant Processing
A merchant application tells you more than most people bother to read. Before underwriting ever sees the file, the partner who submitted it had every signal they needed to know whether this merchant would board clean, stall in review, or blow up the portfolio six...
