Archive for the ‘business credit card processing’ Category
Now Accepting All Credit Cards
Have you ever gone to a small shop or restaurant and went to pay for your purchase only to realize they won’t take your credit card? Sometimes you’re lucky enough to carry another one, but other times you are forced to run to a nearby ATM just to take out cash. It’s a real inconvenience [...]
Business Credit Card Processing for the Campaign
Have you heard of Square? If you’re a business owner, I sure hope you have. Square is a mobile app that allows you to accept credit card payments directly through your phone. All you need to do is attach a tiny little device to the phone that allows you to swipe someone’s credit card. It’s [...]
Business Credit Card Processing Good for Customers and Businesses
While good, old-fashioned paper money and coins remain the way most people deal with small, day to day business transactions it has not stopped the consumer use of credit cards. In response to this, companies have adopted business credit card processing in order to meet the consumer desire to use credit cards. As more and [...]
Working Capital Loan for Sustained Growth
Although the markets were less volatile last week, weakness in the economy persists. In the below video, Dr. Roubini quickly runs through why we may be headed for another recession. Since consumer confidence is down, everyone wants to save. But as Dr. Roubini points out, that only leads to the Keynesian paradox of thrift. What [...]
Macro and Micro: How a Working Capital Loan Helps
The Great Recession left a big impact on the world economy that most countries have not quite recovered from. The United States isn’t doing as badly as other nations, but it is still nowhere near the luxury its citizens knew five years ago. That doesn’t mean, however, that all small businesses are struggling. Some are [...]
Handling Business Credit Card Processing
It happens to many people that when they reach the register to pay for their things they hand over their piece of plastic only to be confronted by an angry clerk that points to a sign on the cash register reading, “CASH ONLY!” Not everyone feels comfortable carrying large amounts of cash on them. They [...]
Gift Card Season Is Not Over
Occasionally it seems like gift cards are not even worth having passed the holidays. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day is obviously the best time for gift cards. But that does not mean they don’t have their place in the day to day market. There are literally thousands of reasons someone might buy a gift [...]
Carefully Processing Credit Cards
I once worked for a fairly shady(by which I mean seemingly criminal) restaurant manager. I can not tell you how many complaints we received from people who claimed their credit cards had been improperly charged. It turned my stomach because while my boss would generally relent and allow me to give these folks refunds with [...]
Equipment Leasing, A Wise Choice?
For many businesses just starting out there is a huge gap between the money you’ve put in to the business and what you have now to move said business forward. You’ve already taken out loans and paid rent, you’ve funded renovations and now you are paying a staff and screaming at your financial ends to [...]
Why Wouldn’t You Have Credit Card Processing?
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