Payment Processing

VAR Sheet, Onboarding Sheet, & MID Credential Form: Explained A Value-Added Reseller (VAR) sheet is a document that contains essential details about your merchant account, acting as a bridge between your business and your payment processor to ensure transactions are processed correctly. If you’re setting up a new payment system…

What is VAT and When Do I Have to Collect It? If you sell products or services, you may need to collect Value Added Tax (VAT) — but figuring out when and where can be confusing. Let’s break down VAT in simple terms, covering who needs to collect it, how…

PSD2 & PSD3: An Easy-to-Understand Guide Europe’s second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) — and the upcoming PSD3 — include hundreds of detailed regulations impacting dozens of different business types. However, only a small portion of the regulations impact merchants. The AltoPay team has cut through the noise to share the…