Mobile phone credit card processing is on the rise. This convenient, flexible payment method allows you to accept credit card payments anywhere, anytime. Long gone are the days that you have to hope your customers have cash, hope their check clears the bank, or miss the opportunity to make the sale because they only want to pay with plastic. Now you can accept payments anywhere your customers are.
Category: Card Processing
Make Your Business Stronger Than Ever with AVP Solutions
In order to keep your business growing, you need business merchant services that provide easy solutions to all of your e-commerce needs. It is a fact that most people carry little or no cash because it is more convenient to use credit cards. Another fact is that more and more people are shopping online where cash is really not an option.
Mobile Credit Card Processing for Business On The Go
A lot of businesses in today’s world are going mobile and getting more and more creative when it comes to gaining customers. Regardless of what your business is, if you are not equipped to handle different forms of payment, you may be missing out.
Accept Payments on the Go with Mobile Phone Credit Card Processing
Receiving payment instantly for your service is not only business efficient but it can mean cost savings from not having to ‘chase’ your customer for payment. Whether you’re an electrician, a plumber, a trade show exhibitor, or a home sales representative, you can receive payment immediately, wherever you are.
Checks, Charges, and Changes
We always like it, here at the AVPS blog, when pieces of “separate” financial news combine to make a single, bigger story, or to provide a trendline.
That’s happened again this summer, when a story about checks — and then another — caught our eye. The first was an article written in anticipation of an upcoming report from the Federal Reserve, which charts consumer payment habits.
Credit Card Processing with a Virtual Terminal
How many times have you had a customer that wanted to purchase your product or service but you were unable to process the transaction. These situations usually occur when the credit card holder is not present and you potentially lose the sale. That doesn’t have to happen any longer.
Card Companies Show Profits, as Credit Use Climbs
There are tea leaves in nearly every flavor, for someone attempting to read what direction the economy’s headed in. But for at least two of the biggest credit card companies, the news seems to be that things are picking up, or at least their customers — the ones using credit cards — are convinced it’s okay to start saying “Charge it,” again.
On the Road: Best Cards For the Season Ahead
Memorial Day beckons as the official kick-off to the summer travel season, but your AVPS blog correspondents already have one child flying back from college for the break, and we’ve booked an interestingly complicated itinerary for a summer flight of our own. So travel season, it appears, is here.
Your Credit Card Could Start Literally “Leaking” Data in the Smartphone Era
By way of a heads-up comes this news from Canada, and reported in the northerly edition of Huffington Post (and later picked up in Forbes’ credit card “round up” column). We’ve mentioned those embedded chips that are due to replace magnetic strips on most credit cards (and have to a large extent in Europe — where the upgraded plastic is the “EMV” standard we’ve written about here before).
