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What is a White-Label Payment Gateway?

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Among these, white-label payment gateways have emerged as a game-changer, offering a customizable cutting-edge approach to payments. What is a payment gateway? To get to the bottom of the white-label payment gateway, let’s first take a moment to explore what a payment gateway is.

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New Data: Why MSPs Are Staking Their Futures On Value-Added Services

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Businesses need help to access and deploy these powerful tools, however – and this means their merchant service providers (MSPs) must be prepared to step up. Many MSPs, including acquirers, independent sales organizations, payment gateways and payment facilitators, are starting to recognize this.

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13 Questions to Ask When Evaluating a Merchant Service Provider

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A merchant services provider (MSP) is an intermediary between banks, card networks, and merchants, ensuring smooth and secure transactions between businesses and their customers. MSPs provide payment technology that enables businesses to process digital payments, such as credit, debit, and ACH/eCheck transactions.

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NEW DATA: Why 63 Pct Of Merchant Services Providers Want A Payments Overhaul

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These challenges are especially acute for merchant service providers (MSPs) and the clients they serve. After all, many businesses look first to their MSPs, including acquirers and independent sales organizations (ISOs), to connect them to the vast and growing digital ecosystem. Nearly two-thirds of providers, 63.5

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What is a Merchant Account and Does Your Business Need One?

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Merchant account providers (MSPs) often offer tailored solutions based on the type of business and online transaction volume. Merchant accounts provide much value for businesses trying to accept payments, but how do they work? When a customer makes a payment, the transaction is routed through a payment gateway to the merchant account.

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The Difference Between a Payment Acquirer, ISO, and PayFac

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ISOs: Bridging Acquirers and Merchants Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) or Merchant Service Providers (MSPs) operate as indispensable intermediaries, bridging the gap between acquirers and merchants. You can think of both the ISO and the PayFac as the Payment Gateway stage.

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How Payment Facilitation Works: An Overview for SaaS Providers

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Merchant services providers Merchant services providers (MSPs) equip merchants with all the tools they need to start processing card payments. There are several types of MSPs, including independent sales organizations (ISOs) and payment facilitators.