BlueSnap for Credit Card Payment Processing BlueSnap offers merchant accounts and provides a payment gateway for retailers to accept credit card payments. While you can use BlueSnap as your gateway for in-person transactions, they focus mostly on eCommerce sales. BlueSnap offers plenty of information on their website as far as pricing and plan options. But you’ll notice that their fees for small business owners are uncommonly high. While they … [Read more...]

Stripe for Credit Card Payment Processing Stripe’s strengths lie in their wealth of customizable eCommerce tools. They are growing in popularity for merchants across eCommerce platforms. While Stripe is a great option for small businesses with its flat-rate pricing model, they also process payments for companies like Lyft, Under Armour, Blue Apron, Pinterest, Wish, TaskRabbit, and more. Stripe is a third-party payments processor. This company … [Read more...]

Heartland Payment Systems for Credit Card Payment Processing Heartland Payment Systems operates under the parent company Global Payments (since 2016). However, Heartland has been a credit card payment processing company since they were originally established in 1997, having plenty of time to fine-tune their services and processing systems. Heartland offers merchant accounts, payment processing, and a select few solutions for business … [Read more...]

Worldpay for Credit Card Payment Processing Worldpay offers credit card processing services in 40 different countries across the globe. Since Worldpay’s merger with Vantiv in 2017, their global presence has grown to include businesses of all sizes with the Vantiv side catering better to small business and Worldpay working better for larger corporations. Considering their broad reach across the world, we’ll be reviewing Worldpay as it pertains … [Read more...]

PayPal for Credit Card Payment Processing PayPal is an aggregator: a wholesale buyer or broker of a utility service, such as electricity or long-distance telephone service (or credit card payment processing), who packages it and sells it to consumers. Instead of acquiring a merchant account, gateway, and payment processor, merchants can choose to use an aggregator like PayPal (Shopify and Stripe are similar aggregator options). This is also … [Read more...]