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Pros Month-to-month agreement No setup or application fees Good customer support Cons Deceptive advertising Limited pricing disclosed online Expensive for low-volume merchants Overview I’ll admit that CreditCardProcessing.com is a solid name for a merchant account provider. Like the gateway company Authorize.Net for authorizing transactions, CreditCardProcessing.com’s name pretty much says what it does. And, like Authorize.Net, the business […]

Last month ShopKeep (see our review) made a big announcement; this popular iPad POS system now offers an integration with BigCommerce (see our review)! We’re dancing for joy over here at Merchant Maverick at the news; we’ve even considered sending the happy couple a new toaster. Why are we so excited? Well, for a few reasons. ShopKeep […]

Overview: XCharge is a payment gateway and merchant account provider headquartered in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It also has offices in Henderson, Nevada and St. Louis, Missouri. The company began life as a division within CAM Commerce, a point-of-sale (POS) software company, back in 1983. It was later spun off as Accelerated Payment Technologies, which was […]

We live, unfortunately, in the age of the data breach. Target. Home Depot. Sony. The IRS. ADP. Noodles & Co. Wendy’s. Yahoo. Over the past few years, all of these companies (and many, many others) have been hit with some sort of data breach that has compromised personalized data ranging from social security numbers and W2 information to credit card numbers. […]

Pros Transparent cost-plus pricing Improved website & advertising No early termination fee Cons No pricing disclosed online Expensive for low-volume merchants Numerous public complaints Overview Once upon a time, there was a company called ElitePay Global (EPG). This merchant services provider had a poor reputation for non-cancelable leasing agreements, bait-and-switch rate offers under a tiered pricing […]

Every sector has its own language. The government, the military, and the medical field aren’t the only ones that seem to have more acronyms than actual words; now, the private sector gets to join in the esoteric fun. In this article, I’ll reveal the latest acronym that merchants need to know – EMV. What It […]

Inventory Management applications have become a lot more affordable in the last five years, and the number of options available to entrepreneurs right now is pretty exciting. At Merchant Maverick, we’ve reviewed 11, and will be adding more in the next few months. As you look for the right solution for your business, it’s important to […]

I like to think iPad point of sale systems provide a kind of happy medium between mobile POS and traditional POS systems. In many cases, they offer all of the functionality of the older, more expensive point of sale systems, along with cool web-based features and mobility when you need it. ShopKeep (see our review) and Lightspeed (see […]

Leaders Merchant Services offers the Clover POS suite and a variety of other tools for merchants, but it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of transparency, pricing, and overall ethical practices.

Overview: Gravity Payments made a splash in national news in 2015 when the company announced that they would raise the “minimum wage” in the company to $70K per year, well above the industry average for entry-level positions. But what does all the buzz mean for business owners? Does all that revenue sharing come from the […]