Payments Roundup

Payments Roundup newsletter is written exclusively for merchants and covers payment processing for small and mid-sized businesses. Regular authors include David True and Dean Sheaffer, and subscribers get exclusive content.

Recent issues Issues arrive every week or two in summer. On 14 October 2026 the topic was AI agents selling through Shopify storefronts. September brought card payment fees versus pay-by-bank options (17 September), the new chargeback monitoring programmes VAMP and ECM (11 September) and whether buy now pay later makes sense for merchants (3 September). Earlier came payment descriptors as a way to prevent disputes (20 August), "Payment Choice Is More Important Than Payment Price" (13 August), the rise of invisible payments (5 August) and five payment metrics beyond processing fees (30 July).

Categories Posts are filed under Cost Optimization, Legal, Merchant Stories, Operations, Opinion and Sponsor Articles.

Why merchants read it It translates processor and network rule changes into decisions a business owner can act on: which fees to challenge, which monitoring thresholds matter, and when an alternative method pays off. English only.