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7 Reasons Why Your Small Business Should Accept Credit Cards

Synapse Payment Systems

If you’re a customer who loves paying for purchases using a credit card, it might be annoying, but for businesses, it makes sense. For many small business owners, it’s tempting to be a cash-only business. The disadvantages of a cash-only business often far outweigh the simplicity of not accepting credit cards.

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7 Simple Ways to Reduce Small Business Expenses in 2022

Payment Savvy

As a new year quickly approaches, it’s a wonderful time to review your current small business expenses to see where savings can be had. It’s all too easy for overhead costs to spiral out of control when running a business. Another small business expense you can cut? Make Remote Work Permanent.

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Fed Vice Chair Reflects On Small Business Loan Industry Evolution

PYMNTS

Quarles, the Federal Reserve’s vice chairman for supervision, recently spoke at the HOPE Global Forums Annual Meeting to reflect on the changes endured by the nation’s small business lending market, according to reports on Friday (March 30) in JD Supra. Business owners can receive funds in a couple of days or even hours.”.

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Meet HeroPay, The Startup That Wants To Be Small Business’ Payments Hero

PYMNTS

The payments industry is a fairly large pie, but the way things are currently set up is skewed to favor larger vendors and businesses — a $4 trillion industry in the U.S. million small businesses make up about 26 percent of the overall payments industry but are responsible for 79 percent of its total fees.

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Are Debit Card Surcharges Legal? What Businesses Need to Know

Stax

This article explores the legal landscape surrounding surcharges, shedding light on the intricacies of state and federal laws and strategies for small businesses to manage processing costs. Businesses can encourage cash transactions or use credit card surcharging as an additional fee to offset payment processing costs.

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PayPal launches its most advanced solution for small and mid-sized enterprises in the UK

Fintech Finance

PayPal Complete Payments launches today for online small businesses in the UK, Canada and across more than 20 European markets. Small businesses face a myriad of challenges from finding new customers and managing cashflow to driving sales. PayPal Complete Payments has so far resulted in an average 4.2

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How SMBs’ Manual Processes Cost Economies Billions In Lost Growth

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Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Sage’s latest report, “ Sweating the Small Stuff: The Impact of the Bureaucracy Burden ,” includes research conducted by Plum Consulting, who surveyed more than 3,000 decision-makers at SMBs across the U.S., Canada, U.K.