BluePay, Leading Provider of Credit Card Processing Services and one of MerchantPlus’s processors, Receives Constant Contact All Star Award
Taking credit card payments is easier than it seems
There is no question that more people are turning to entrepreneurship today than ever before. With the state of our economy in shambles and unemployment at an all time high, the prospect of starting your own business is both promising and frightening. The continued growth of the internet and the prospects of social networking helps people take this opportunity to try out their life long dreams.
At the same time, there are many fears that entrepreneurs still have to face when starting a business. Start up costs, licensing, marketing, no immediate profits, billing, accounting, etc…
With a smaller world and a MUCH larger prospect base thanks to the internet, one thing that should not be a big worry is offering your prospects and customers the ability to pay however they like. Accepting credit card payments is easier then ever and literally takes no more than 10 minutes of your time to set up. Over the next few days, I will explain some of the things that people are not aware of when it comes to merchant services and how credit card companies like Visa/Mastercard determine their rates. It’s much simpler than you may think.
Internet searching and advertising increasingly plays a role in consumer decisions and purchases, yet pertinent information for making value-judgments is currently awkward to ferret out and certainly not universally accessible or useful. There is rarely a feedback loop aligning vendor or manufacturer’s environmental, social or governance policies with a shopper’s values, so shoppers, over time, rarely cause industries to change their behavior.
There needs to be a way for shoppers to aim their purchasing power at achieving social values of highest regional priority. There needs to be a way to accumulate and redeem “social values rewards”. What’s missing is timely and impactful analysis of a candidate purchases’ impact on the Shopper’s family, region and planet (expressed according to their values), so that the purchaser can more easily make informed purchasing decisions.
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Consumers increasingly are turning to plastic over paper when they open their wallets. Credit and debit card spending exceeded $1 trillion in 1998, making it a necessary payment option for most businesse
Credit cards have become so popular today as a means of payment that they are accepted by almost every merchant that exists today. With the credit card being so popular, there have been a lot of banks that issue credit cards of either own and most of the credit cards that exist today make use of either Visa or MasterCard. However, even though there are various credit cards that can be found these days, all of them actually work in the same way.
Whether you already take credit card payments or would like to start offering that as a payment option, MerchantPlus is the easiest and most affordable way of doing so. At just $19.95/mo and a month-to-month contract period, MerchantPlus offers the easiest and quickest introduction to credit card processing. There’s no need to tie into a shopping cart and no need for a physical credit card terminal, all you do is log into your virtual terminal from anywhere that has internet access and type in the credit card information.
Fill out our 5 minute application here: www.merchantplus.com or call us today at (800) 546-1997!
Rates:
- Monthly: $19.95
- Discount rate: 2.15% (Please inquire about our mid and non qualified rates)
- Transaction: $.25
- Setup: FREE
- Contract period: Month to month
- Monthly minimum: $0
- PayYourInvoices.com (accept online payments): FREE
- Navigate Virtual Terminal: FREE
- No early termination penalty! Cancel at any time!
