By John Robinson
Thank one of my merchants for this suggestion.
If you’re a brick-n-mortar business, and you’re using terminals to run your credit card transactions, you may have experienced the discomfort of a terminal dying. You may have needed to funnel large numbers of customers to other cash lanes, causing gridlock at your registers and annoying [...]
Don’t be like this guy to left when choosing a merchant account provider! Take off the blindfold and read the post below:
I am writing this post for new or young businesses that have very little experience with merchant accounts. Let me start by letting you know where I get my knowledge on this [...]
Can you say proprietary?
How about “proprietary credit card data capturing device?”
To explain what I am trying to get at let’s start with the definitions of the words in that phrase above:
pro·pri·e·tar·y = indicates that a
party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over
an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties.
cred·it card [...]
My opinion is – bad idea.
The main reason to not lease merchant account terminals is that you are upside down before the ink is dry on your lease agreement. For example: a $39 lease for 48 months will cost over $1,800. The brand new terminal may be worth $400 or $600 but within months it [...]
Today Software Advice launched its Retail Software Advice website, a free resource designed to match prospective retail software buyers with the right software for their businesses.
Software Advice helps businesses in the construction, medical and retail industries make the right technology decisions. Using the Software Advice website, buyers can identify and compare software products that meet [...]