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Visa, Mastercard Settle on 2005 Class Action Antitrust Lawsuit Great news: Visa and Mastercard recently announced a settlement to the 2005 class action antitrust lawsuit on behalf of 7 million retailers that accept credit and debit cards with their brands. As part of the proposed deal they have agreed to lower the fees that businesses […]

Smile! Dharma Featured Photo Contest As we mentioned before, we’re absolutely thrilled with our new website (thanks again to the folks at Earthsite!).  We hope you’re enjoying it too and welcome your comments to help improve it even more. We have one great idea already: we think a huge improvement would be to have it […]

New Fee from Visa: FANF Adjustments in the rates and fees that the Card Associations (Visa, MC, Discover & Amex) charge are made in October and April. Last fall debit fees were radically reduced for regulated debit card sales due to the Durbin Amendment legislation. Regulated debit cards are issued by banks with assets greater […]

This Month’s Being Game: Being Forgiving Our monthly “Being Game”, which comes from the Sacred Commerce practice and book of the same name, is practicing an aspect of the divine throughout each month and that we take turns interpreting, defining, and expressing. This month’s game is Being Forgiving – a very powerful way of being. […]

Featured Merchant: Back to the Roots Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora two months before they graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009. A chance mention of the notion that mushrooms could be grown from recycled coffee grounds sparked an interest in growing healthy food and creating local jobs from […]

Free Authorize.net Mobile App Did you know that Authorize.net offers a mobile application that is free with your Authorize.net account? This app is a great way to process transactions using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch at off-site events (an Android app is coming soon!). All transactions are recorded in the Merchant Interface and your […]

Goin’ Phishin’ In an effort to protect you against fraud we want to keep you informed about the latest phishing scams reported by Visa and Mastercard. Phishing is an attempt to garner secure information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by posing as a trustworthy source in an email or instant message. Links […]

Dharma Attends May 2012 BALLE conference We attended our first Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) conference this past May and had such an enriching experience that we know it will be the first of many. It was held in the beautiful city of Grand Rapids and brought in people from all over the […]

Dharma Attends Wisdom 2.0 Event On May 11th and 12th, I attended the first annual Wisdom 2.0 Business conference in San Francisco, which addressed health and wellness in the workplace. Presentations were focused around leading research and applications of employee productivity, well-being, mindfulness, creativity, meaningfulness, and wisdom. Over 300 attendees were actively engaged in the […]

Dharma Sponsors Global Exchange Human Rights Awards We continued our tradition of sponsoring the Global Exchange Human Rights award on May 10th and were so grateful to participate in the 10th anniversary of this special event. It was a festive evening, with silent auction items (we won a signed copy of Chip Conley’s just-released book, […]