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A dangerously erroneous article posted by the Small Business Administration is misleading small businesses, and the SBA has carelessly ignored repeated calls to have the article removed or corrected.
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Think twice before staking your business’s credit card processing on speculative processor reviews. Most credit card processor reviews aren’t worth the virtual paper they’re printed on.
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In the wake of expensive, well-publicized data breaches like those experienced by Home Depot and Target, you may be nervous about your own business experiencing a breach.
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You won’t find the best credit card processing unless you define what “best” means for your business, and then learn the fundamentals of processing before setting out in search of a processor.
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Like the saying goes, “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Credit card processors recoup the cost of a free credit card machine through expensive tiered pricing and various other fees.
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Flat rate credit card processing is an expensive illusion based more on clever marketing than reality. What some companies advertise as a competitive flat rate is actually oversimplified and expensive pricing that conceals the true costs to process.
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Credit card surcharges, checkout fees, merchant surcharges – whatever you call them, the concept is the same: you add a fee when a customer uses a credit card. But are they legal? And more importantly, are they a good idea for your business?
To answer those questions, we’ll explore all aspects of what surcharging entails.
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The chargeback process is designed to increase consumer confidence — it’s very easy for credit card users to dispute charges, while businesses and banks have to do all of the legwork to figure out whether or not a transaction is legitimate.
