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What Are Merchant Services?
PayProTec West Coast is a “merchant services provider.” But what does that mean exactly? At the most basic level, a merchant services provider helps to process credit card payments and provides credit card readers or online portals for e-commerce credit card...
Are Your Credit Card Rates Too High?
Businesses and merchants that currently use credit card processing from either smaller local companies or larger, national credit card processing brands can all benefit from asking this crucial question: Am I paying too much for credit card processing? Credit card...
Exact Change vs. Credit Cards
In the past few months, we have been experiencing strange and unprecedented events one after the other. One of these that might not have made it onto your radar is the coin shortage. As business owners know, however, the national coin shortage was a huge pain to...
Accepting Contactless Payments Post-COVID
There are many ways, as a business owner, to decrease health risk to you and your employees during this pandemic. With more retail businesses and restaurants opening every day, taking every precaution is wise. However, you don’t want to inconvenience your customers or...
How Small Businesses Used Gift Cards to Stay Afloat
In the days of coronavirus, many small businesses had to shut down their storefronts. Businesses like hair and nail salons, retail shops, and many others were suddenly left without income. Some business owners found a solution in the form of gift cards. By selling...
How Modern Food Trucks Get Paid: Mobile Credit Card Processing
Food trucks used to mostly be cash only ventures due to their lack of permanent location and their need to be on-the-go. Now, though, a credit card reader doesn’t need to be physically connected via bulky wires or heavy machinery. With advances in technology, getting...
How Can I Add Touchless Payment Options in My Small Business?
Your customers depend on you to do your best to keep them safe when they enter your storefront. You are sure to keep the floors clean and dry to prevent slipping. But how are you keeping their credit card information safe? Frequently empty the register and put papers...
Processing Payments Over the Phone
During this time, finding a way to process payments without contact with the other person is important. Being able to process payments over the phone is one of the ways that you can lessen contact between your employees and your customers. This type of payment...
Restaurants Offer Online Ordering For Less
Restaurants - Offer Online Ordering for $99/Month. No per order commissions – systems like GrubHub take a high percentage of every order AND keep the customer data. Our model is to let you keep all the money and the customer data. • Consistent ordering from the...
Why Accepting Debit / Credit Helps Your Business
"Do you accept credit cards?" If your answer to the above question is no, then you're losing out on the potential of thousands per month in revenue - and all you have to do to get it is to sign up with a merchant processing company like PayProTec West Coast, located...