A payment gateway encrypts and transmits customer data; a processor moves funds between accounts. Both are essential for online credit card transactions.

PayPal functions as a digital wallet with higher transaction fees than merchant accounts but offers simpler setup with no ...

If you're a retailer, and you're not managing your own online sales, you should stop and think: What's stopping me? These days, there isn't much. Sure, plenty of third-party sites - think eBay or Etsy ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Online shopping is set for a bumper holiday season in 2021. Worldwide, ecommerce sales surpassed $4.2 trillion in 2020, according to ...

Choosing a payment gateway is an important step for any small business owner as this will be the network through which your customers transfer funds to you. Here are seven of the current best payment ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every business needs a way to secure payments, but with so many choices in financial services for online businesses, it’s an intimidating ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Chicago-based startup FeeFighters, a comparison shopping site for credit card processers, is launching a new product to simplify online payments. FeeFighters’ Samurai is debuting as a gateway for ...