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Credit Card Processing for Restaurants
The service business in the US is interesting. We embrace our tipping culture, but we struggle over the amount. Meanwhile, from the business owner’s perspective, receiving payments is a bigger hurdle than ensuring our staff get their ‘good service bonus’. Credit card processing can help, in several key ways. For starters, many restaurant staff earn…
Read MoreHow Can my Seasonal Business Accept Credit Card Payments from my Customers?
In some ways, running a seasonal business is just like any other undertaking, except that it’s condensed into a tighter time window. In year-round businesses, profits, losses, and expenses are spread wider. With the seasonal approach, one financial mis-step could be much worse, and you may literally have to wait until next year to recover.…
Read MoreIncrease Your Sales by Offering Your Customers More Ways to Pay
We all know about reverse psychology, and a lot of us think we’re immune to it. As marketing goes, it’s an effective sales tactic, but not always in the way you mightthink. Experiments have shown that – for example – telling shoppers they can buy ‘Up to 6 pieces’ or ‘Maximum of 5 per shopper’…
Read MoreAccepting Credit Card Payments – Is it Safe?
With the kind of transformation that shopping habits and purchasing behavior have seen in the last few years, it’s important that your small business stays in sync. As a business owner, meeting customer expectations is the cornerstone of the health and growth of your business. Today, Americans not only have a credit card; on average,…
Read MoreCredit Card Processing is Affordable and Safe
In today’s world, people are constantly acquiring information. It might be an article you scrolled past without realizing you’ve registered the headline, a random Instagram story, a quote from a podcast, a line from a movie, or even an overheard conversation. And once that information sinks into your brain, it can be hard to get…
Read MoreNeed a Seamless, Convenient Payment Method for your Customers? Accept Credit Cards
From a business perspective, we worry about finding enough buyers. We don’t really think about payment methods until a client asks for one we don’t have. ‘Do you accept Bitcoin? Can I write a check? Do you have change for a hundred?’ These are all reasonable and innocent questions. But if they’re coming from a…
Read MoreWhy Accepting Credit Cards is Good for Small Businesses
Business size is driven by lots of different factors. Maybe you’re just starting out, with an eventual eye on growth. Or maybe you prefer the lifestyle afforded by your cozy boutique business. It might even be a hobby you’re running on the side that you want to keep manageable and untainted by “capitalist expansion.” Whatever…
Read MoreNeed a Fast, Secure Method to Receive Payments?
If you are looking for a fast, secure method to receive payments from your customers that is easy and dependable, then credit card processing is your solution. Customers expect to pay with their credit card anywhere and everywhere they shop so, if you expect to compete for your share of the market, credit card payments…
Read MoreYour Shoe Repair Shop can Accept Credit Cards
Your customers paid for their expensive leather shoes and boots with a credit card. Why not extend the same convenience when they bring them to your shoe repair shop to extend the life of their footwear? It’s a courtesy they expect from all businesses today, and the practice can increase your profits. There isn’t a…
Read MoreDo I need a Merchant Account for my Barber Shop?
There is only one reason you would not need a merchant account for your barber shop; you have all the money you want. If you are content with the status quo and have no aspirations to grow your business then you don’t need a merchant account. Understand though, by not moving forward you are losing…
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