Why Choose Electronic Money Company? Why call Electronic Money Company? The answer is simple. We’ve been doing this for over 25 years. Our reputation has been built on being honest, transparent, and straightforward. When we do a comparison, we don’t play games with numbers. We don’t promise savings that don’t exist. We don’t hide fees in the fine print. We show you exactly what you’re
Attention auto repair shop owners. This article is specifically for you, although other business owners may find some similarities. Are You Paying Too Much to Process Credit Cards? Electronic Money Company recently saved an auto glass shop $2,000 per month on their payment processing fees. If you’re like most auto repair shop owners, when you first opened your doors, you were focused on getting customers,
When I am talking to merchants about their credit card processing rates, many times they ask my what my rate is? They think their rate is the total fees divided by the volume processed on their credit cards. They ask if I can beat that rate. But the rates vary on different types of cards and different ways of accepting cards, card present, over the
Let me tell you something every business owner needs to understand if you want to grow your revenue without constantly chasing new customers. Your regular customers are everything. New data shows that repeat customers generate six times more revenue than one-time or occasional shoppers. Six times. That’s not a small difference—that’s the difference between struggling month to month and building a predictable, growing business. And
How do you feel when you call up a company that sold you a product or service because you have a question; a concern; you have a gripe; something is not working right; you don’t understand the billing; or for whatever reason you need to speak to a live human. Do you like it when you have to listen to a bunch of prompts, of
If you’re running your business on a POS system that “comes with” its own payment processing, there’s a good chance you’ve felt it… those rates creeping up, support getting slower, and the sinking feeling that you’re stuck. You’re not alone—and more importantly, you’re not as locked in as you think. Let’s talk about what’s really going on, and how to fix it. A lot of
Adding payment processing to your software matters tremendously because of the added revenue for your software company. What matters also is your choice of processor. Gingergaye here with Electronic Money Company. Today I am going to discuss why choosing the right payment partner up front with a strong relationship manager sticks your software customers to you long term while allowing you to focus on software
Many businesses today are adopting dual pricing as a way to control rising credit card processing costs. Instead of absorbing the fees themselves, merchants offer customers two prices — a cash price and a card price. Customers who pay with credit cards cover the processing cost, while those who pay with cash avoid the extra fee. If your business processes large transactions, you can offer
Many ISVs initially think they are in the software business, but the real profit often comes from payments. The Revenue from Payment Processing Outperforms the Software Revenue Here’s how the revenue model of payment processing works. The fees that the merchant pays to accept credit and debit cards are comprised of the following: The banks who issue the cards to consumers earn the wholesale interchange
If your business accepts a lot of corporate or government credit cards, a major change is happening in the payments industry. Depending on how you handle transactions, this could either increase your costs—or help you save significantly. What Is CEDP? CEDP stands for Commercial Enhanced Data Program. It’s Visa’s new system for determining which B2B transactions qualify for lower interchange rates. Why Visa Introduced CEDP
‘No Hidden Fees’ Merchant Scam These days, everything we hear from politicians and advertisers has a SPIN. ‘No Hidden Fees’ sounds great, doesn’t it, especially when it is in bold type in a big font on a credit card processor’s marketing. Here is how this SPIN and the ‘No Hidden Fees’ Merchant Scam goes down. Many processors pronounce to their prospects and put in writing
Scams Behind the Bar — Is Your Restaurant Losing Money on Bartender Baloney? According to Preventing Internal Theft – A Bar Owner’s Guide, by Robert Plotkin, there are nearly two dozen areas of vulnerability that can be exploited behind the bar. Bartenders can give away free drinks, over-charge or under-charge the clientele, pocket the sales proceeds of unrecorded drinks, substitute well liquor for call brands,
A merchant sued Visa and MasterCard for the unfairness of taking on the credit card processing fees. They won with some qualifications. They can’t pass fees back to consumers for debit cards, only credit cards. As a result, many processors have programs to automatically add a surcharge fee onto a credit card transaction. But the merchants are getting pushback from consumers. Here is a discussion
Employee theft in restaurants is a rampant issue. Would you believe that 75 percent of restaurant employees steal from their workplace at least once, if not repeatedly? In fact, according to the National Restaurant Association, internal employee theft is responsible for 75 percent of inventory shortages, and up to seven percent of restaurant sales. This is a true story that happened to friends of ours
Can I Connect a New Credit Card Processor with QuickBooks? Can I Execute Payment Processing in QuickBooks with my Own Processor? The answer to both is YES! Many merchants think they have to use QuickBooks’ merchant services processing in order to integrate their credit card payments within QuickBooks. But that is not true. QuickBooks, developed and marketed by Intuit, opened up their software for API
Merchants have been complaining about credit card processing fees since the beginning of credit cards. The fees were initiated in the first place to replace the fees banks collected on loans. Consumers who don’t have enough cash were in effect passing on their interest fees on loans to the merchants. But merchants took on those fees because sales were lost if they didn’t. Consumers can
Did the Salesperson Promise You the World, But After the Fact You Are Treated Like 1-800-IGNORE-ME? Did you get the low rates you were promised? Did they stay low or creep up over time? What about service? Credit card processing tends to click along like clockwork until it doesn’t. Are you getting the support you need? Recently, the US experienced a crash of Verifone VX520
Let me tell a true nightmare story which happened recently to one of our merchants. I will tell you how we fought like the 3rd monkey trying to get on Noah’s Arc in order to find the solution and fix the nightmare problem. Then you will have a better understanding of how Electronic Money Company is uniquely different from all the other credit card processing
Credit Card Refund Scam Against Merchants! One of my clients called recently to ask some questions about refunding a customer. This particular customer paid a deposit on a custom engineering project and then decided to cancel the order. The merchant told this customer he would refund the card. However, the card holder argued that they didn’t have the card anymore and could the merchant write
Problem: How do I stop paying such high rates for corporate and business cards? Solution: Stop paying 3% to 4% or HIGHER for Level 2, 3 & 4 corporate, business and purchasing cards! Save 1% or MORE to your bottom line! Here is how! Purchasing Cards (“P” Cards), corporate cards and Business cards are company credit cards which government entities, plus large and medium sized
