Owning a bar and restaurant can be exteremly tough! It seems the competition is getting better every day and profit margins are shrinking at the same time. Don’t forget that customers are wanting more and at better prices at the same time. Yikes! So here are some restaurant and bar money saving tips to help Read More
Business is changing every day. It’s hard to keep up! For a business today, being online and having an online presence is crucial. You need to make sure to not only have a web person, but then have a Facebook page and then an Instagram and so on and so forth. Many businesses outsource to Read More
The payment processing industry is changing every day. There are new technologies and great products that are being introduced it seems every month. Crazy though, that most restaurants have not gotten on board with this. When you go out to most restaurants, you will see some sort of POS system in place that takes orders, Read More
Like it or not, mobile payments is here to stay. While in the US cash is still king, it’s grip is slowly slipping away. Another product that is slowly disappearing is the physical credit card. How do you say is the physical credit card going away when credit card payments are on the rise? Well, Read More
Many brick and mortar companies look at online stores like Amazon, Target and others and their profits decreasing. They wonder what are they doing that I am not. Do people not care about touching and feeling a product and don’t care about the personal touch and service that they used to be? The answer to Read More
So, you want to accept credit cards online. Why not? Everyone else is doing it right? There are many solutions out there for you to do it. Which one is best? That’s up for you to decide. We can help you, though, filter though some of the bad ones and also some things to look Read More
The bar and restaurant industry is a tough one! Over 50% are out of business in a few years. Profit margins are thin! Turnover is high! Saving money in any way is necessary to keeping the doors open. In the credit card processing world, owners and managers get calls all of the time from processing Read More
It was just released in the past couple of days that Intuit has abruptly stopped payment processing for gun sales at many of their merchants locations. This came without notice and left many scrambling to find the customers who purchased the products and also how to run transactions that are legitimate for their business. I Read More
The biggest complaint that we receive from merchants on almost a daily basis is how high their fees are. If you run a good size business, after the roof over your head and employees, in most cases credit card processing fees is the next biggest expense going into the thousands of dollars a month. If Read More
Choosing a great credit card processing solution is not as easy as it used to be. Back in the day, merchants were trained to just hear “rate” and there were many “rate jockeys” out there who just pitched the lowest rate and signed up a lot of businesses. If you accpeted credit cards for more Read More