QuickBooks and Merchant Accounts

About This Quickbooks Post
If you want to use QuickBooks® accounting or point of sale software you may think you have only one option for your merchant account provider.  If Intuit had it’s way that would be true but thanks to some determined companies that is not the case.  That means now you can use Quickbooks [...]

What is up with the CVV2 Code?

Many merchants believe that adding a cardholder’s three or four digit CVV2 code for a “card not present” (CNP) transaction will help qualify the transaction for a lower discount rate. However that is not the case; the CVV2 code is only valuable to protect against credit card fraud and has nothing to do with [...]

Options for QuickBooks Users

This week I have had the pleasure of analyzing two merchant account statements from businesses that were running their transactions through the extremely popular business accounting software QuickBooks . Both businesses were with the same merchant account provider and both were paying significantly more in fees than they needed to.
Statement Confusion
What I found [...]

Are you using PC Charge?

If you happen to use PC Charge for your merchant account transactions listen up! I have been running into merchant accounts having major problems with credit card transaction downgrades because PC Charge is not set up correctly. This means these businesses are paying more than they need to for their merchant account.
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Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Robb Lejuwaan in Merchant Account, POS, Software , ,

How to Find the Right POS System for Your Business

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 [...]

Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by Robb Lejuwaan in Equipment, Merchant Account, POS ,

QuickBooks Merchant Account Jail - Escape Plan

Until a few years ago if you wanted to use Quickbooks for processing credit cards you had to use Intuit’s very expensive merchant account services; you had no choice. Today there are several plug-ins on the market allow businesses to process credit cards through Quickbooks using almost any merchant account provider.
However, there is [...]

Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Robb Lejuwaan in Merchant Account, Quickbooks, Software