Processing Credit Cards
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This important aspect deserves close scrutiny before making a decision. Changing credit-card processors is a time-consuming task so it will pay to make the correct decision the first time.
Accepting Credit-Card Payments
Get a good deal on a merchant account quickly by completing this form or contacting South East Merchant Services, Inc., 877-331-4810. Ask for Steve Slagle.
Advantages of Credit-Card Processing
- Accepting credit cards satisfies your customers' expectations.
- Credit-card accounts give buyers more purchasing power, effectively making more money available for shopping.
- Credit cards speed the checkout process and
- Card purchases eliminate math errors in calculating change due and lessens employee theft.
- Accepting cards can reduce the amount of cash needed on site.
- Processing sales in this way enhances your store's image.
Merchant Account Offers to Avoid
Perhaps the most expensive option is consignment software 'integrated' with card processing - costly for 4 reasons:
- The consignment software itself costs a lot more than software without integration.
- Total credit-card fees may be higher.
- You get locked in. You pay $x,xxx for consignment software 'integrated with credit-card processing' and you're very unlikely to dump expensive consignment software to change credit-card services.
- The consignment software vendor gets a percentage of each of your credit-card sales for pushing X-Charge. Yes, that should be disclosed. No, it's not. (South East Merchant Services will share their revenue from sales with BCSS.)
BCSS and Credit-Card Processing
Just swipe the card and select the card type from a drop-down menu on the sales invoice. The amount of the sale is auto-entered.
