CrossCheck Blog

Credit card processing costs continue to rise, putting pressure on businesses that process large or frequent customer payments. For industries such as auto dealerships, home improvement providers, furniture retailers, veterinary services, and aftermarket businesses, those costs can add up quickly.

ACH payments are cost-effective, but failure rates remain a hidden revenue leak. Most failures don’t come from the payment itself, but from how it’s initiated. Manual entry, lack of real-time validation, and limited visibility create issues that aren’t discovered until after the transaction is accepted.

In today’s service lane, efficiency matters, especially when it comes to handling dealership service payments.

Most large merchants already have some form of che ck or ACH guarantee service in place.

Digital payments are everywhere today. Customers tap their phones, swipe cards, or click a button online to complete everyday purchases.

At CrossCheck, we’re always looking for ways to make things easier for the businesses we work with. That’s the idea behind our updated CrossCheck Merchant Portal.

As more businesses adopt digital payment options, many merchants are asking the same question: do checks still make sense, or should everything move to ACH? The reality is that both payment methods continue to play an important role. While ACH and other bank-based payments offer speed and convenience, checks remain widely used across industries where transaction sizes are larger or where customers prefer traditional payment methods. Instead of replacing one with the other, many businesses are finding that a balanced approach works best.

If you’ve paid a bill online recently, you may have noticed a subtle shift.

Debit cards have long been positioned as a low-cost, reliable way for merchants to accept payments. But recent data shows the risk equation has shifted. Today, merchants are absorbing a growing share of debit card fraud losses, even as fee structures and network rules remain largely unchanged. Recent analysis highlighted by PaymentsJournal, drawing on biennial data from the Federal Reserve, shows that merchants were responsible for nearly half of all debit card fraud costs in 2023. That marks a steady transfer of risk away from banks and toward the businesses accepting the payment, both in-store and online.