A real-time payment is a transaction made through the Clearing House’s RTP network. Though more limited than ACH, payments made through the RTP Network settle almost immediately.
Online Check Writer is more than just an app for printing checks. It’s an all-in-one cloud-based platform that combines making and accepting payments with online banking, invoicing, payroll management, and much more. Keep reading for the full scoop on Online Check Writer.
FreshBooks Payments is a cloud-based payment processing solution that lets merchants accept payments online. With FreshBooks Payments, business owners also make it simple for their clients to pay invoices online and ultimately improve their cash flow. Read on for a full review.
Novel payment methods seem to be arriving at a faster and faster pace. One you may have heard of recently is called a payment link, a way to bill your customers through their mobile devices (or email, if you or they are feeling retro).
When you’re running a business by yourself, however, you’re probably going to be looking for labor-saving conveniences whenever you can get them. Wave, a popular accounting tool for freelancers, now offers integrated credit card processing with its (almost) free-to-use software.
If you collect payments online, your customers are likely accustomed to using credit or debit cards, PayPal, or even digital wallets, but some may be open to authorizing a simple bank transfer via the good old ACH Network. How do you compare ACH service providers and choose the best one for your business? Read on!
Whether you’re offering magazine subscriptions, a grocery delivery service, a subscription box company, or software-as-a-service (SaaS), a good subscription billing service attends to your particular needs. From invoicing to accounting to reporting and analytics, we want to match you with the recurring billing service that fits your business’s needs without making you pay for features you don’t need.
As a freelancer, billing is important. If you don’t send out your invoices, you don’t get paid. But you can’t spend all your time sending invoices and chasing after payments. You’ve got to do some billable work too. Read on to find out the different software services that can help you do everything easier and faster.
Whether you are aware of it or not, you use ACH to make payments every day. In fact, even when a payment is not called an ACH transaction, a portion of that process might still pass through the ACH network. This is because ACH payments form the backbone of money transfers between US banks.
Zelle is a money transfer service meant to compete with Venmo and PayPal. Now even businesses can use Zelle to move money around and make payments — here’s what you need to know about using Zelle for business.
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