Courtney Reilly-Larke is the deputy editor of Forbes Advisor Canada. Previously, she was the associate editor of personal finance at MoneySense. She was also managing editor of Best Health Magazine ...

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(CNNMoney) — Get ready for a facepalm: 90% of credit card readers currently use the same password. The passcode, set by default on credit card machines since 1990, is easily found with a quick Google ...

Brian Krebs has found a fascinating example of a card skimmer – essentially a machine that steals your credit card number – that masquerades as a real POS terminal. The skimmer fits over the ...

With as many as 5 million mobile point-of-sale readers in circulation in the United States, mobile POS companies will have their hands full following the liability shift set for October 2015 when the ...

In some industries, vendors work entirely from purchase orders or from detailed purchasing contracts, but most businesses need to ring up transactions individually. Depending on your industry, you ...

Small businesses can define the cheapest card payment machines in a few different ways: by card reader price, subscription or monthly fees, and more. Transaction fees can’t be forgotten here. If you ...

Point of Sale (POS) is a backbone of modern payment systems. Every day, around the world, billions of transactions run through POS as consumers pay for goods and services. However, millions of micro, ...

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