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When it’s time to replace or upgrade equipment, many businesses are quickly steered toward leasing. Equipment leasing companies make it easy to spread costs over time, which can be appealing, especially when cash flow is tight. But this article isn’t about the upsides of leasing. Equipment leases can come with real drawbacks, and in many […]

Computers, IT equipment, and related items pose unique issues for businesses trying to decide whether to lease or buy. Tech equipment becomes obsolete more quickly than almost any other type of equipment, making it a poor long-term investment. At the same time, many businesses need to keep their tech hardware up-to-date in order to remain competitive. Should you buy or lease your tech equipment? Read on.

If your business doesn’t rely heavily on a phone system, you may not have to purchase equipment at all. Instead, you can download apps from your VoIP provider to make and receive calls, use other communication tools, and manage your phone system from your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop computer.

A tax lease is a rental agreement in which the entity financing the lease (lessor) retains ownership of the asset in question for the duration of the lease with regard to tax and bookkeeping purposes. Tax leases last less than a year.

A First Data contract can be hard to cancel right away. The main problem is that it has an early termination fee (ETF), which could get pretty hefty if you cancel at the wrong time. To pay less of the ETF, you might have to wait a few months. But there are other obstacles as well. In this article, we’ll explain how the cancellation process typically works. You’ll still have to read some of that contract, but we’ll help you find the relevant parts more quickly for quick lookups.

A lease line of credit — also known as an equipment line of credit — addresses that issue. Rather than financing a specific piece of equipment, the lender will grant you a line of credit for a limited period of time (typically one year). Similar to a personal or business line of credit, you’ll be given a credit cap.

AgDirect is an Omaha, NE based equipment financing program offered by a network of specialized lenders called the Farm Credit System (FCS). AgDirect is a convenient way to access the benefits of the Farm Credit System quickly and easily, and should probably be somewhere near the top of an agribusiness’s options.

First Data Global Leasing has the dubious distinction of being among our rogue’s gallery of the processing industry’s worst credit card terminal leasing companies. While it offers high-quality products in the Clover line of terminals and POS systems, it’s disheartening that an industry leader such as Fiserv would condone awful business practices by a subsidiary.

Closing a merchant account is never a simple process. Providers such as Worldpay go out of their way to make it as difficult as possible in the hopes of discouraging you from terminating your business relationship with them. We’ve laid out the specific steps that you’ll need to follow to do so successfully.

Sadly, as the global COVID-19 pandemic wreaks havoc on our world and our institutions strain to cope with it all, scores of businesses are facing the excruciating reality that remaining in operation just isn’t feasible. As terrible as it is, there are steps you need to take to ensure that the pain of closing your business isn’t even more devastating to your employees and your finances than it needs to be.