Get The Credit Card Machine That’s Best For Your Business

June 11, 2009 - PRLog -- Get the credit card machine that’s best for your business

Working in the merchant services industry with the Technical Department of Merchant Solutions for the last few years has put me in contact with merchants and their POS solutions and credit card machines. I’ve worked with and helped countless merchants that were having difficulties with their credit card machines and equipment. Merchants experience technical difficulties that are caused not by defective credit card equipment but by buying the wrong equipment in the first place...there are many problems that can be avoided by buying the right solution the first time.

There are many types of credit card terminals out there and many times a particular terminal may not be the right stuff for a merchant and their business. Finding the correct POS solution isn’t very hard, as long as the merchant knows what they need to be looking for. I’d like to impart some advice, some general guidelines to search by for the merchants out there who believe it is upgrade time or just need to replace an existing solution.

I’ve been around the POS block long enough for it to become clear to me that there are three important things to be looking for when purchasing POS equipment. I’ve never been in the merchant’s situation of needing to find the best solution for my business, but if I was and had thought about what kind of functionality I needed to get out of my POS equipment, how I would fit this technology into my current business environment in terms of connectivity, and where I could find the best deal on this POS equipment, I would be ahead of the game and would probably be setting myself up for smooth sailing when it comes to accepting all sorts of electronic payments.

To explain a tiny bit more what it is the merchant should consider heavily, they should know

A) The types of payments they want to accept be they Credit, Debit, Gift Cards, or Checks;

B) What kind of telephone or Internet services they have (usually both nowadays, but sometimes there is neither!) which the POS equipment would work on so that transactions can take place; and lastly

C) Where to find the best prices for these solutions.

This does not really paint the entire picture of the landscape a merchant must take a good look at and think on. It’s only exposing the outlines which need to be filled in with accurate information in order for a merchant to make sense out the whole thing and to come up with the best POS equipment for their business. In forthcoming blogs, I will be explaining this further and hopefully helping merchants choose wisely and make informed decisions concerning the technology they’ll use to accept electronic. This should make business for the merchant much easier and hopefully even much more successful in the long term. For more information contact us:

Contact:
Kevin Sarisky
Merchant Solutions
2239 West 190th Street
Torrance, CA 90504

(424) 212-9500                                                                          
ksarisky@merchantsolutionsiq.com
www.moourl.com/MerchantSolutions

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