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Get the best from your card processing

In this chapter we’ll look at how card processing works under the hood, the multiple parties involved, and how to make sure customers’ payments go through smoothly. It’s likely that credit and debit card transactions account for the majority of your payments. So it’s important that (where possible) these are authorised without a hitch.

18 February, 2021
 ·  7 minutes
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In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • How card processing works

  • How to reduce your costs

  • How to increase your authorisation rates

  • How to ensure recurring card payments are uninterrupted

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