Jason Vissers

While GoFundMe’s brand centers on charity, with personal and charitable causes accounting for most of the campaigns, many people don’t realize that GuFundMe can also be used to raise funds for business projects as well.

CardConnect is a merchant services provider and major ISO of First Data (now Fiserv). The company offers a full range of high-quality products and services (including an excellent integrated payments platform). However, lengthy contracts, high termination fees, and inadequate pricing transparency make it a poor choice for most small business owners.

LendingPoint offers loans to consumers who have credit scores in the 600-680 range. It is a useful tool for people without the best credit profiles. It is suitable for startups but because of its narrow focus, the funding might work out for a very small number of entrepreneurs.

The EMV liability shift is well underway and customers have started dipping those cards. At this point, most small business owners are probably wondering why the heck everybody is talking about chip-and-PIN cards when everybody seems to be using chip-and-signature. What’s the difference between chip-and-PIN and chip-and-signature cards?  Back Up a Minute. Let’s go over […]

PayPal offers a comprehensive suite of services for merchants, from the mobile POS app (the focus of this review) as well as online card processing, business financing, POS partnerships, and much more. Want to use PayPal POS to get paid? PayPal Here is becoming PayPal Zettle — read our updated review for more about features and pricing.

For such a large, traditional processor, Elavon offers a few advantages. The company deserves credit for eliminating its early termination fees and disclosing its flat-rate pricing plans. At the same time, it loses a few points for not disclosing the availability of interchange-plus pricing and for inconsistent customer service and support.

With PayJunction’s unique suite of products and services, merchants can organize their sales data, eliminate paper-based inefficiencies, reduce risk, broaden customer payment options, and eliminate the need for a traditional credit card terminal. All this can save you time, boost your profits, and streamline your business practices.

With no monthly minimum fees, no binding contracts or cancellation fees, and a growing number of feature options, it’s clear that iZettle is worth a generous amount of consideration for mobile processing. While iZettle now serves a dozen countries, including Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, and Germany, we focus on the company’s UK services for this review.

QuickBooks GoPayment (formerly Intuit GoPayment) enables taking payments on the go, and for most merchants, the draw of GoPayment is probably that it syncs with QuickBooks Online. The seamless QuickBooks integration makes it easy for you to keep track of your funds and expenses on the go.

QuickBooks Payments (formerly known as Intuit Merchant Services) is a merchant services provider that’s an internal division of the mammoth financial software company Intuit. The seamless integration with QuickBooks is probably going to be a big draw. You also get invoicing, eCommerce support, and ACH payments at a reasonable cost.