Allowing Overdraft Fees Undermines Benefit of Prepaid Cards
Paycards are a great tool and will not only benefit you by streamlining operations, it will help pay your unbankable employees and independent contractors. Creating a happier workforce with less turnover. Do not let the worries of overdraft fees discourage you. There are Paycards out there that do not have NSF fees associated with them. […]
Visa Alert and Update on Oracle’s MICROS Breach
Visa’s security on Friday (08/12/2016) issued a security alert warning companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale units to double-check their systems for malicious software or unusual network activity. Visa highly recommends that companies should immediately change passwords on their systems. Visa also published a list of Internet addresses that may have been involved in the Oracle/MICROS breach that are […]
Evolve or Die
Macy’s is teaching us a valuable lesson….Evolve or die. How are you marketing, performing analytics, or mixing it up and catering to our new social marketplace? Are you even collecting your customers email or text numbers? Do you have a payment gateway to auto-bill or make online ordering convenient? Have you done a business technology review […]
Oracle/MICROS Breach
Over 330,000 global terminals were breached through one of the top 3 most popular POS systems, Oracle/Micros. KrebsOnSecurity broke the story late yesterday. Keep your customer’s security a priority by locking your front door. If you are using this system, make sure you are changing your passwords frequently and do your PCI vulnerability scans often. You are not […]
SWFL DFS Career Center Opening Enriches our Community
Once again Barbara Dell has shown her leadership, strength and passion though the opening of the Dress for Success SW Florida Career Center. We are all so excited about the new addition and the impact it will have for the women in need in Southwest Florida. Thank you Home Depot, Walmart, Entech, College Hunks Hauling […]
VISA Payment Ring at the Olympics
Tonight is the Opening Ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Thank you VISA for your contribution to the Olympians’ experience. No matter their performance, we are all proud of the US Olympic Team!
Small Business Hacking Getting More Common
Ed Black says the worst thing a small business owner can believe is that his/her company is safe from hackers, simply because hackers don’t target small businesses.
Potential Chargeback Scam
We’ve heard from merchants of a potential fraud situation. A transaction has been processed, and then a refund has been requested, but to a different credit card than the original transaction. Our recommendation is to make a company policy to always refund back to the original card to prevent a chargeback on the original […]
Dress For Success Event
Come join us for a Grand Opening Celebration of the Dress For Success Career Center on July 20, 2016!!
Ban the Box
Another government regulation tying the hands of employers. Let’s hope more cities do not go down this path. This is just another added layer of complete time wasting for businessess which are already hesitant on hiring. We do not want to know after going through the time consuming process of interviewing, making an offer and […]