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Gift Credit Cards and AVS with Authorize.net Many gift credit cards (stored-value cards with a Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express logo) do not include a billing address on file at the issuing bank. As many shoppers love using these cards for their purchases, you may need to update your [...]

Partner of the Month: One PacificCoast Bank By now, businesses and organizations who support sustainability are used to making green choices on several issues; for example, offering public transit passes for employees and using recycled packaging. But how "green" can we be if the bank we use invests in coal-mining [...]

Updating your Dharma account is easy! Do you have an account update to make? Have you moved locations? Do you have a new employee who should be able to call on behalf of your business? Do you need to update your checking account or add AMEX? I have good news [...]

USAePay and Apple's iOS 7 Update When you update your Apple device to iOS 7, you will need to adjust your microphone in order to swipe cards with your PaySaber Jack card reader. Once you have iOS 7 installed, follow the instructions and screen shot examples below to allow the [...]

Merchant of the Month - Northwest Earth Institute We have overworked our planet. In the pursuit to improve our lives, we have risked our own survival. The result has been global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, pollution and even the extinction of certain species! Now, more than ever there [...]

Where's my money? We recently had a merchant who told us on their original application that their maximum transaction amount would be $5,000.00. Then, they ran a transaction for $60,000…yikes! Because the sale was over ten times the high ticket amount reported on their original application, this set off a [...]

What’s New! Marketplace Fairness Act We like to keep our merchants and partners informed about rules and regulations that affect how payments are transacted, and this month we are writing about recent legislation which has already passed in the Senate and is working its way through the House called the [...]

Support Tip of the Month - Settle Your Account Every Day Did you know there is one final step to send your daily transactions to our bank for processing after the original point of sale transaction? This final step is called “batching out” or “settling,” and is necessary in order [...]

Merchant of the Month - LocalHarvest The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Dharma client and partner Local Harvest is well aware of this and developed a website to help consumers find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food locally. LocalHarvest is America's [...]

5 Tools for Mobile Marketing Success Have you embraced mobile marketing yet? SteamFeed recently reported that 37% of internet usage in the U.S. is on a mobile device. That is a huge demographic your good cause could be missing out on if it isn’t mobile-friendly. Our friends at 4AGoodCause compiled [...]