This AFP guide – "Optimizing Your Relationship With Your Acquiring Partner" – focuses on strategies for managing payment acceptance costs and negotiating with merchant account providers. Topic areas include components of payments acceptance costs, payments acceptance fee structures, acquirer relationship management strategies, and provisions of merchant account agreements. Included is background information on the EMV mandate, the Durbin Amendment, and the antitrust lawsuit.

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Worth a look. Payment card acquiring costs can be unnecessarily expensive for many companies.