The CBD market is booming, offering incredible opportunities for entrepreneurs. However, navigating the financial side of the business can feel like traversing a minefield. Many CBD retailers face...
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March Madness Spending: How Payscout Powers Payments with a Champion’s Mindset
March Madness isn’t just about buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and heart-stopping upsets—it’s also a massive money machine. From the moment the first bracket is busted to the confetti drop at...
Choosing the Right Payment Gateway for Your Ecommerce Business
In the dynamic world of ecommerce, where transactions happen in a click and security is paramount, selecting the right payment gateway is key to laying a sturdy foundation for your online...
Payscout Revolutionizes Merchant Integration with ApplePay Mass Enablement API
(Los Angeles, CA) – Payscout, a leading payment processing provider, proudly announces the roll-out of its ApplePay Merchant Mass Enablement using the innovative Apple Pay Web Merchant...
Securing Tomorrow’s Transactions: Unveiling the Power of PCI DSS 4.0
In the evolving landscape of digital transactions, the PaymentCard Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) plays a pivotal role in safeguarding sensitive cardholder information. As technology...
Compliance in the Collections Space; Who’s Responsible?
To account for changes in technology, cyber security, and legal policies, compliance in the collections space is constantly evolving. Collection agencies, like many businesses, rely on a network of...
Payment Processing: How to Choose the Right Platform for Your Business
Choosing the right payment processing platform for your business can be tricky. There are many options available, and each one has its own set of benefits and drawbacks. We are here to help in the...
Sales Tools for Software Providers and Vendors
As an Independent software vendor (ISV) or software provider, your company must consistently seek ways to differentiate your products and services from the competition. Your unique selling...
Do We Know the Real Number?
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), nearly $90 billion in medical debt appeared on consumer credit reports in 2021. Considering that not all medical debts in...
Healthcare Headaches
Our client, Johns Hopkins Health System (JHHS), is one of the largest and most diverse healthcare systems in the United States. For more than 100 years, they have been providing elite medical care...
What is “Interchange?”
Interchange Fees make up the largest portion of a merchant's payment processing costs. Unfortunately, it is often not clear what these fees are and how they are charged. In some cases, processors...
How Do You Identify the Right Payment Processing Partner?
Fire up your favorite search engine and enter “Payment Processing Company.” Google will often return “About 1,000,000,000 results” — in less than one second! No kidding; just try it. The...
Eliminate the headaches of “7-in-7” by collecting and tracking all of your data in ONE PLACE.
Consumers and Compliance: Things Are About to Change CFPB. FDCPA. ARM. ROI. DBA. The list of acronyms in the collection industry is endless. And while not officially an acronym, we have a new...
Is Your Payment Processor Lying to you? Three Key Ways to Identify Processor Dishonesty
In the payments industry, there always seem to be a number of payment processors engaging in dishonest business practices, which can lead to merchants being misled and deceived if they are unaware...
The Truth About Interchange
Interchange fees make up the largest portion of a merchant's payment processing costs, however, it is often not clear what these fees are and how they are charged. In some cases, processors can...
Payscout’s Paywire Gateway: Features, Updates, & Enhancements
This article will be continually updated whenever any updates are made to the Paywire Gateway, to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information at all times. Payscout's Paywire Gateway...
Merchant Best Practices During a Pandemic: Communication is Key
Payscout is proactively monitoring merchant activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and is increasing communication with merchants as trends emerge. Here is a high-level overview of the Best...
Card Account Updater
Product Description The Account Updater service enables merchants to obtain updated cardholder account information from participating card-issuing banks for a cardholder that the merchant has an...
Mastercard Chargeback Monitoring Program Updates
Mastercard has recently updated its Chargeback Monitoring Program. The new updates involve 2 different programs: the Excessive Fraud Merchant (EFM) Compliance Program and the Excessive Chargeback...
The Financial Challenges of Running a Non Profit and How Payscout Can Help
Running a non profit can be an incredibly challenging calling. Non profits deal with nearly all of the challenges for-profit businesses do while concurrently having to fundraise; operate on a...
How to Streamline Your Online Business Payment Processing
There are so many considerations, concerns, complicated details, and unforeseen hurdles accompanying the running of a business that it can be easy to overlook features that could either help or...
Adding a Payment Gateway to Your Website
A payment gateway is an important component in any business payment processing model. It is used to ensure that every transaction between the merchant and a consumer undergoes proper processing and...
Expand Your Nonprofit’s Mission with Mobile Payment Processing
If you own or work for a nonprofit organization, give an impetus to your organization's growth and mission by embracing technology. Mobile payment processing for one, has the potential to boost...
5 Reasons Your Business Needs Online Bill Payments
If you are still using the antiquated system of manually entering, calculating, and creating invoices, your business is losing valuable staff time. You’re also losing money. Enabling automated,...
Leadership Training for the Future
On Thursday, March 2, Payscout partnered with the Jefferson Awards Foundation to support the Students In Action leadership training event in Downtown LA.The Jefferson Awards Foundation launched the...
VR Commerce at CES, NRF, and iConnect
In January 2018, Payscout announced the world's first live donation in virtual reality at CES, showcased a retail application of VR Commerce with Visa at NRF, and spoke about the future of the...
A Year of Service
On August 23, 2017, Payscout and the Jefferson Awards Foundation celebrate the one-year anniversary of a partnership dedicated to powering and celebrating public service.Exactly one year ago today,...
Payscout’s Erica Boatman-Dixon Recognized by the Jefferson Awards Foundation
In support of our Belief that every individual has a social responsibility to make the world a better place, Payscout serves as a Champion with the Jefferson Award Foundation (JAF), the nation’s...
Jefferson Awards Foundation SIA Training at UCLA
Payscout partnered with the Jefferson Awards Foundation (JAF) and UCLA to provide leadership training to nearly 140 future leaders from middle and high-school students across the greater Los Angeles...
Payscout, UCLA, and the WNBA’s L.A. Sparks: Turning Inspired Connections Into Meaningful Actions
Here at Payscout, we are all about inspiring people through the power of meaningful connections and transactions. In business and in life, we’ve learned that helping others fulfill their potential...