If you have searched the internet for merchant account comparison, chances are that you have landed on some pages that have charts that show rates from different providers for discount rates and other fees. Exactly how useful are the merchant account comparisons? Frankly, their useless! First of all, most all of these type sites are […]
About Gene
Gene is a 24 year veteran of the electronic payments industry and has consulted with countless companies of all sizes. He has overseen large underwriting portfolios, directed IT staff, and currently serves as the Director of Business Development. Gene has appeared before the U.S. Congress to provide expert opinions regarding developing technology and transaction risks towards solutions for the payroll industry. You can find him on LinkedIn>.
Mobile Payments – The Future of Mobile Payment
Mobile Payments, what is the future? We’ve long been hearing stories about how folks in Europe and Asia are using their smartphones to pay for goods and services, yet we still haven’t seen the same adoption of mobile payments here in North America. Are we relegated to phone payment envy, or do we have mobile […]

Your Best Payment Gateway – Where Is It?
Not all payment gateway solutions are created equal. In fact, what one person thinks is a best payment gateway may be entirely different than what another thinks. In short, a payment gateway facilitates the transfer of payment information from a point of origination to the back-end card processor, or in the case of an ACH transaction, to the […]
Choosing an Online Payments Service Provider
Online payments is the keystone to ecommerce. It’s the linchpin that holds the whole formula together. Without it, you essentially have no sales. But if you’re new to the online payment world, how do you know what provider to choose? First and foremost, the online payment service provider should be trustworthy. The company should be […]
Headed to Broadway!
Congratulations to Mr. Leonid Veksler from Veksler Academy of Music and Dance! Mr Veksler is a client who utilizes our recurring payments platform and just won our Studio AutoPay customer appreciation contest that is sending him from San Fransisco to New York for a weekend on us that includes air, hotel and tickets to a […]
8 Benefits of Accepting Credit Cards
As a small business owner, you might be on the fence about accepting credit cards. After all, it costs money to do so, right? And maybe you don’t do enough business to justify signing up with a credit card processing company. On the other hand…maybe that’s why you don’t do enough business: because you don’t […]
Building your Competitive Moat
Warren Buffet likes to invest in companies with a competitive moat. That is, their product, service or brand name presents competitors with significant barriers/problems in order to compete. Software developers are constantly under pressure- Pressure from competitors in their market space, from customers with “special needs” and from their own company to produce the next […]
Small Business email management
When it comes to managing email systems for small businesses, some are challenged by the simple fact that they don’t have an IT staff to call upon or they don’t have the resources to put in place an exchange server and maintain it. In those instances many small businesses rely on either: Free mail Webserver […]
The PCI Monkey on your back
Companies who transact commerce are expected to be completely PCI-DSS and/or PA-DSS compliant. To do so can be extremely time consuming, expensive and challenging. From the perspective of a company
ACH Integration Services
Integrating ACH and credit card processing into your software or Internet ASP solution can make your payment processing cycle seamless. We have the documentation, code samples and technical assistance that will make this process easy. In addition the compliance burdens for credit card (PCI) and ACH processing are now on our shoulders rather than your […]