In both our homes and our offices, lack of space often becomes an issue despite our best organizational efforts. At AVP Solutions, we know that our partners want the best in secure payment solutions, but sometimes, a conventional credit card reader just won’t work. They may not want the physical footprint of a traditional machine, or they find the technical set-up and cords to be too cumbersome for their space. We understand that not every merchant account holder is a brick-and-mortar store. In modern commerce, a variety of institutions now need the ability to accept credit cards, like medical offices, utility companies, churches, schools, and even on-the-go service providers.
Category: mobile processing
Starting a New Business? Smaller, Mobile Models May Help You Get Started With Less Financial Risk
You have a great idea for a new business, but you just aren’t ready to take the plunge into a full-scale operation. After all, a new business often represents an enormous gamble for a small business owner. How do you know you’re ready? Is there an easier way to test market interest and viability without getting over your head in start-up investments? Between the internet and social media, many innovative entrepreneurs have found great success by starting out with unconventional, mobile business models. They use mobile trucks, farmer’s markets, festivals, pop-up locations, kiosks and more in order to bring their products or services to the public.
Is Your Business Ready for a Busy Holiday Season?—Why Mobile Processing Can Help You Serve Customers
The holiday shopping season is officially in full swing. Early bird shoppers have clamored to check gifts off their lists while others still bide their time, hoping for the best deal. The holiday season — and the “sale season” after — will bring an increase in customer traffic to your business. However, just getting them in the door isn’t enough. You need to understand what challenges stand between your business and actually concluding customer interactions with sales. Here are some important points to remember about potential customers this season:
Think Beyond the Storefront—How Mobile Processing Can Expand Your Customer Base
While your brick-and-mortar business has been moderately successful, you may need to re-think how you approach expanding your customer base. Special events like farmer’s markets, fairs, community festivals, or even sports events sometimes welcome vendors across any genre. By taking your products and services out into the community, you open up your business to easy exposure and the potential for reaching an entirely new audience. However, to help support business mobilization, you also need to incorporate mobile credit card processing to capture the most new customers. AVPS can help set you up with the right tools so that anywhere you are you can make every interaction a sale.
Mobile Payment Solutions For Mobile Businesses
Whether you operate an up-and-coming food truck, or are a dedicated fixture at craft fairs, you know that operating a mobile business has its challenges. You are constantly on the move, and as you deal with the hustle and bustle of your customers, you are always looking for a way to expand your horizons and turn your passion into profit. Wherever you do business, you need to consider adding mobile credit card processing as part of your operations. Without mobile processing, you may be limiting your customer base and losing business.
Right Payment Processing Tools
Take Your ECommerce Business to Next Level With the Right Payment Processing ToolsYou are growing your small ecommerce business, enough…
Due Diligence: Slow EMV adoption; Fed Calls For Coordinated Security
It is a constant tussle, struggle — pick your word — for merchants and consumers striving for digital safety in their daily rounds of charge card and debit use. And with the constant news of data breaches and new malware discoveries, it sometimes seems such relative “safety” is a grail that will always be just out of reach.
Solstice Roundup: EMV Transitions, Watch Your Samsung, and… Emojis!
Summer solstice will be here before we can even get next week’s blog post up! So even though temperatures here in AVPS’ neighborhood are already hitting triple digits, let’s officially welcome the season of beach-going, travel adventures, and more.
Smart Cards, Smarter Passwords
The nature of payments, and how they’re made, continues to change — whether credit, debit, or prepaid. Payments continue to move from one digital platform to the next, sometimes leaving customers wondering if making any of the changes are worth it, or if something even newer will come along first.
Notes from the Land of “Euro” in “EMV”
As we’ve noted in this space before, “EMV” is coming — sooner rather than later — to America. It’s that standard — already adopted in Europe and Asia — of having an additional chip on your charge card, as well as an additional means of authenticating any charges made in person, like use of a PIN or a signature.
