Contactless Payment Options that Make Credit Card Checkout Safer
People are now expecting the checkout process to be touchless. The concerns of health, safety, and minimizing the transmission of disease are top of…
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The Simplest Way to Add eCommerce to your Website
Online shopping and eCommerce is quickly becoming the new normal. Consumers have started to comfortably make purchases online from their computers or mobile devices.…
Generate revenue from payment processing
Payments is an industry that is evolving quickly. The rise of online and mobile shopping is one of the reasons for this rapid transformation.…
Top Payment Processors in Canada in 2021
There is no “one size fits all” in payment processing. If you’re looking for the top payment processor, figure out what is important to…
The types of payments your business can accept
The types of payments that people use has continually been evolving. The first form of money came about around 5000 B.C., but modern payments…
How Clearly Payments offers low-cost payment processing?
It’s no mystery that Clearly Payments is on a mission to offer the lowest cost payment processing. It’s been written about many times and…
Small Business Payment Processing
Small businesses make up 85% of all businesses in Canada. They are the foundation of our economy. It’s so important that small businesses get…
What is EMV in Payment Processing?
EMV is a secure payment technology standard that is used worldwide. EMV is managed by a handful of credit card networks: Visa, American Express, Discover,…
Flexible and low cost online payments in Canada
Online shopping and eCommerce is growing extremely fast in Canada. It has been growing around 20% per year and 2020 has seen an explosion…
Time to get a contactless payment system in Canada
When you pay for something at the store, it has become a relief for consumers, and the merchant, when the payment terminal supports contactless…
The best POS system for your business and how to choose it
This article is about helping you get the best POS system for your business. A POS system (point-of-sale) is the software and hardware allowing…
WordPress payment plugin
WordPress is the most popular platform to manage content on websites. If you’ve chosen WordPress, you’re in good hands. Hundreds of millions of other…
Teaser rates in Costco credit card processing
Teaser rates are a part of marketing. Quite often they are used to acquire new customers by having a discount. For example, “join now…
How much does payment processing cost?
Many businesses don’t know how much they should be paying for credit card processing. However, we can guarantee you that the average merchant is…
WordPress payments and online credit card processing
WordPress is one of the most common platforms to run websites. There are around 450 million websites that use WordPress. That means around 20%…
The best payment gateway for online payments
We’ve been working on our “best of” series for payment processing, such as the best credit card machines and best payment processors. In this…
Dental credit card processing
There are specific needs in dental credit card processing that we have seen as we’ve worked with many dentists. First and foremost, low-cost is…
Put more energy into opportunities, not problems
One of our working principles is based on our belief that a successful company is opportunity-focused, not problem-focused. Opportunities produce results and growth. Problem-solving…
Best credit card machines for business
Credit card machines have been around since around 1960. They started as credit card imprinters and moved to magnetic stripes in the 1970s. They’ve…
Getting the cheapest payment processing
Merchants are paying too much on payment processing. That’s a fact. Most merchants have the opportunity to save significantly on accepting payments if they…
Continually Listen, Measure, Learn, and Teach
We believe the most important unit of success in a company is learning. That’s right, it’s not revenue or profit or growth rate. We…
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