If you have a website that you sell goods or services from, a merchant account for website lets you securely accept credit cards 24 hours a day, 7 day a week. This allows your customers to easily make a transaction anytime. Once set up, it’s completely hands-free for you so customers can make purchases even if you are sleeping or away on vacation. You will both receive an email notification of the transaction immediately.
Category: Merchant Account Services
The Yin and Yang of It: Retailers Push for Secure Cards, Target Already Tried Them
The news of course, in the wake of the most infamous consumer data breach yet, just gets newsier. Some reports indicate that information going back as far as ten years, on Target customers, could have been pilfered in the breach. One couple near the U.S. / Mexican border was arrested after having a cache of false credit cards in their possession, made from what appears to be a fraction of the stolen data.
How to Choose the Best Business Merchant Services
Business merchant services are an integral part of your business so choosing the right provider is important to ensure the best service at the best rates. When looking for merchant account solutions some of the questions you should ask or investigate are:
When New Year’s Was New — Plus: New Cards Coming for the Hacked!
In the spirit of the holidays, we’ve stayed away from some of our “hard news” offerings in this space, to report on more thematically consistent topics, like the history of Christmas gift-giving, or this week — a history of New Year’s itself.
How Does a Phone Credit Card Reader Benefit Your Business?
The better question would be how does a phone credit card reader NOT benefit your business? Accepting credit card payments via your mobile phone means you can accept payments anywhere your customers are. You’re no longer restricted to retail locations, hoping your customer has cash or a check, or calling in a credit card payment. Now it’s as simple as swipe and go!
How Can You Accept Payments Online?
If you have a website, you will need online payment services to be able to accept and process credit cards. There are a few ways that you can do this but the safest, most efficient and effective way is with a merchant account. Your customers will be able to place their order at anytime, without the assistance of a live person (unless they need personal service for some specific reason).
Are You Making This Mistake? Does Your Business Accept Checks?
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that checks are completely outdated and you don’t need to worry about providing that as a payment options these days. Not having the ability to accept checks could cost you money and the goal of any business is to make money, not lose it.
What Are the Benefits of a Merchant Account?
If you are starting a business, or currently own one, you need business merchant services so that you can accept debit and credit card payments from your customers.
Just a few of the ways that a merchant account helps your business are:
The 12 Ways of Christmas
It’s a short holiday week, and we wanted to get the blogging in before it was time to address the stuffing!
If you’re on the merchant side of the equation, it’s also a “short” holiday season, due to Thanksgiving coming later in November than usual. So there’s even more expectation — frenzy? — around the official “Black Friday kickoff” sales. Not only for customers, but for merchants as well.
