by PayProTec West Coast | Mar 11, 2022 | Credit Card Processing
If you look at Intuit’s fees for processing credit card transactions, it’s clear they believe they have a captive audience. Want to create invoices in QuickBooks, hit “send” and have a payment link automatically included with the invoice? Most businesses believe their...
by PayProTec West Coast | Mar 11, 2022 | Merchant Services Contract
I recently contacted a gentleman who owns and runs four restaurants. I told him that I could switch his merchant services processing, provide a guaranteed savings, and still enable him to keep the Aloha POS that he loves. When I suggested that we should do the...
by PayProTec West Coast | Feb 17, 2022 | Credit Card Fraud
I have a confession to make. As a merchant services professional who helps others avoid fraud, I recently fell for a phishing scam. Yes, me! And I’m here to tell you that some of these scams are incredibly hard to detect…until the fraudulent charges start to go...
by PayProTec West Coast | Aug 20, 2021 | E-Commerce, Retail Sales
Many business owners assume that if they have an e-commerce site, they must use either PayPal or Stripe to process their credit card payments. After all, that seems to be what everyone else does. So these two options must be the only viable choices, right? Wrong! In...
by PayProTec West Coast | Jul 23, 2021 | Credit Card Processing
Picture this…You sell a product to Connie Customer and she pays via credit card. Then, when Connie’s credit card bill arrives, she freaks out. “Wait a minute,” she says to herself, “this bill is for $10.23 more than I expected. And besides, I really don’t like this...