Category: NYC merchant services

The 5 BigCommerce Apps Your Store Needs Today
Featured Article The 5 BigCommerce Apps Your Store Needs Today

Feeling the pinch of competition? Desiring to elevate your sales? Ecommerce retargeting is the silver bullet you’re looking for. This robust marketing approach leverages technology to cater ads to individuals who’ve previously engaged with your brand online or visited your ecommerce store. By embracing this strategy, you will replace one-size-fits-all ads with personalized product suggestions […]

Loyalty program Take Your Business to the Next Level by Offering a Loyalty Program
Read MoreTake Your Business to the Next Level by Offering a Loyalty Program

Loyalty programs have been around for a very long time, but today, they’re everywhere. Our wallets are now packed with plastic and paper designed to get us some sort of discount from the stores and brands we love, and with good reason – loyalty cards work. They’re extremely popular with customers because people love discounts, […]

Chargeback Defense Merchants Beware: A Chargeback Defense Guide to Help You Avoid the Scourge of Ecommerce
Read MoreMerchants Beware: A Chargeback Defense Guide to Help You Avoid the Scourge of Ecommerce

As a merchant, you take pride in providing the best service possible to each and every one of your customers. That’s why it can come as such a shock – even an insult – whenever a chargeback request comes in claiming that you failed to deliver on a transaction. While chargebacks are a reality of […]

Toast POS Terminal Picture Is Toast POS Leaving Merchants Burnt? A Quick Look at Toast POS Part Two of Two
Read MoreIs Toast POS Leaving Merchants Burnt? A Quick Look at Toast POS Part Two of Two

In part one of this article, we examined Toast’s discounting and billing structure and how it impacts merchants. Essentially, Toast offers significant discounts to restaurants on hardware and software but then charges significantly inflated transaction fees, which wipe out any other savings for restaurants doing any kind of significant volume. In part two, we’ll look […]

EMV Cards and Your Restaurant EMV Cards and Your Restaurant: What You Need to Know
Read MoreEMV Cards and Your Restaurant: What You Need to Know

A credit card is a credit card, and a payment terminal is a payment terminal, right? 😉 Many merchants and restauranteurs would agree with that statement, but they’d also be very wrong. As a result, a huge number of restaurants don’t have the hardware they need to process EMV cards – the current standard in […]

Payment Processing Should I Work with A Third-Party Processor?
Read MoreShould I Work with A Third-Party Processor?

Third-party processors, like PayPal, Square, and Stripe, are companies that provide payment processing to clients by pooling all client payments through their own master merchant accounts. For example, if you sign up with PayPal, you do not get your own merchant account. Instead, whenever you accept a credit card payment, that payment is processed through […]

Toast POS Is Toast POS Leaving Merchants Burnt? A Quick Look at Toast POS Part One of Two
Read MoreIs Toast POS Leaving Merchants Burnt? A Quick Look at Toast POS Part One of Two

Toast POS is a cloud-based restaurant POS provider and payment processor that offers restaurants a variety of POS options built on an Android framework. Toast has been growing rapidly since it launched its POS platform in 2013, and many restauranteurs are drawn to Toast both for its simplicity and the attractive pricing offers the company […]

Interchange Plus the Best Pricing Plan Is Interchange Plus the Best Pricing Plan? How the Most Transparent Pricing Model on the Market Provides Huge Savings on Merchant Fees
Read MoreIs Interchange Plus the Best Pricing Plan? How the Most Transparent Pricing Model on the Market Provides Huge Savings on Merchant Fees

One of the most important questions any business should ask themselves when looking for a new merchant account or merchant services provider is “how will this service impact my profitability.” It can be easy to simply write off merchant fees as a cost of doing business – and certainly, they are – but small differences […]

Ecommerce Account Should Your Business Have an Ecommerce Account?
Read MoreShould Your Business Have an Ecommerce Account?

In 2018, almost 5,900 brick and mortar retail locations closed. 2019 has seen another 6,000 go the way of the dodo, and by 2026, as many as 75,000 stores will shut their doors permanently. The reality is, brick and mortar stores are expensive – far more expensive than their web-based eCommerce counterparts. As a result, […]

Chargeback Prevention Part Two: Is an Ounce of Chargeback Prevention Worth A Pound of Cure?
Read MorePart Two: Is an Ounce of Chargeback Prevention Worth A Pound of Cure?

In part one of this two-part series, we looked at some of the technology-based solutions merchants have available to them to catch fraud early on and stop it before it can result in chargebacks and lost revenues. In part two, we’ll look at the other side of the coin – legitimate chargebacks filed by customers […]

WooCommerce over Shopify Why Do So Many Businesses Prefer WooCommerce over Shopify?
Read MoreWhy Do So Many Businesses Prefer WooCommerce over Shopify?

WooCommerce and Shopify are two of the leading e-commerce platforms in the world. Each is full-featured and designed specifically to aide online sales, but there are as many differences (if not more) than there are similarities between the two platforms. Below we’ll analyze four of the primary areas of comparison between the two platforms, and […]

Chargebacks for Business How Problematic Are Chargebacks for Business Owners?
Read MoreHow Problematic Are Chargebacks for Business Owners?

Chargebacks are a reality of accepting credit card payments. While many chargebacks are requested for valid reasons, there are plenty of cases in which disputes are initiated despite the merchant holding up every aspect of their end of the bargain. Unfortunately, many merchants don’t really understand the dispute process, how to handle a chargeback, or […]

POS 4 Best Touch Screen POS for 2019
Read More4 Best Touch Screen POS for 2019

From retail stores to restaurants and beyond, hardwired cash registers are giving way to flexible, mobile point of sale (POS) systems designed to make it as easy as possible for customers to pay and for employees and management to go about daily tasks like inventory management, stock ordering, reporting, and more. LightSpeed Retail, ShopKeep, TouchBistro, […]

Merchant Services Clover GO vs. Square – Which is Better for You?
Read MoreClover GO vs. Square – Which is Better for You?

Square is almost synonymous with phone-based mobile payment processing, but Clover – a company owned by processing giant First Data – has been carving out their own chunk of the market and making a name for themselves with availability in retail settings like Sam’s Club. Each company offers a small card reader designed to integrate […]

Chargebacks 5 Effective Tips to Win More Chargebacks
Read More5 Effective Tips to Win More Chargebacks

Chargebacks are a reality of accepting card payments, and no merchant doing any significant volume can avoid them altogether. Sometimes a chargeback is outright fraudulent, and many are the result of poor customer service or misunderstandings between merchants and customers. But whatever the reason may be, merchants need to be ready to fight back when […]

Saves Businesses Thousands Annually BAMS Low Cost Payment Processing Saves Businesses Thousands Annually
Read MoreBAMS Low Cost Payment Processing Saves Businesses Thousands Annually

BAMS has been offering electronic payment processing solutions to thousands of merchants all across the globe for well over a decade. Our experience and commitment to customer satisfaction and savings mean that there are a number of significant benefits to choosing BAMS as a payment processor – benefits that our competitors simply can’t match. From […]

closeup of businessman working on financial spreadsheet on laptop rearview Why Is Interchange-Plus Pricing the Most Advantageous Merchant Account Pricing Format?
Read MoreWhy Is Interchange-Plus Pricing the Most Advantageous Merchant Account Pricing Format?

A merchant’s profitability is determined largely by the costs of doing business, and one of the most common costs merchants in the digital age run into is the fees associated with processing card payments. Many merchants just assume that all payment processors and all fee structures are alike, but that couldn’t be more untrue. Merchant […]

Fees Understanding Merchant Fees – Which Fees Are Common for A Merchant Account Statement?
Read MoreUnderstanding Merchant Fees – Which Fees Are Common for A Merchant Account Statement?

Credit card transaction processing fees seem simple on the surface, but the overall fees are actually made up of many smaller fees, sometimes numbering in the dozens. In the interest of transparency and regulatory compliance, payment processors break down all of those fees on their merchants’ monthly statements. That’s good for both the processor and […]

Merchant Account Provider Which Merchant Account Provider is Better – BAMS, Braintree or QuickBooks Merchant Services?
Read MoreWhich Merchant Account Provider is Better – BAMS, Braintree or QuickBooks Merchant Services?

Choosing a merchant services provider is a serious task and picking the wrong merchant account can result in headaches with integration, unnecessarily high fees, and delays in deposits reaching a merchant’s bank account. Merchants choosing between BAMS, Braintree, and QuickBooks Merchant Services – three of the most popular merchant services providers on the market – […]