Convenience Fees are an attractive solution for boosting your bottom line, but if you’re not careful, they can cost you your ability to accept payments altogether. In the accounts receivable...
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The Financial Challenges of Running a Non Profit and How Payscout Can Help
Running a non profit can be an incredibly challenging calling. Non profits deal with nearly all of the challenges for-profit businesses do while concurrently having to fundraise; operate on a...
Business Security Tips for Safer Commerce
As the internet hosts financial enterprises from utility payment processing for major cities to the buying and selling of corporations, the hundreds of billions of dollars transferred, earned, and...
The All-in-One Payment Solution of Omni-Channel
An omni-channel payment solution allows your business to accept multiple payment types in a single processing platform. Online, telephone, over-the-counter, and mobile payment processing are all...
The Future of Virtual Reality Commerce
Despite the increasingly user-friendly, effective, intuitive, and affordable virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms, they’re still occasionally dismissed as technological...
How to Streamline Your Online Business Payment Processing
There are so many considerations, concerns, complicated details, and unforeseen hurdles accompanying the running of a business that it can be easy to overlook features that could either help or...
Streamline and Secure Your Business’s Payment Processing with Payscout’s Virtual Terminal
From the complexity of healthcare payment processing to the relative simplicity of buying and selling a product, the modern marketplace is far more dynamic than it’s ever been. For the vast majority...
Payscout COO Addresses Bruin Entrepreneurs at UCLA
On Tuesday, May 23, Payscout Chief Operating Officer Juan Sotelo returned to his Alma Mater at UCLA to address the Bruin Entrepreneurs, a student-driven group of future leaders, on the merits of top...
Partnership Provides Flexible Payment Options in ARM
Payscout recently announced a strengthening partnership with software solutions provider HealPay in alignment with strategies to best serve the companies’ mutual customers. Many of those customers...
Merchant Spotlight: Bolinha Restaurant
Payscout is powering payment solutions for one of the oldest and most prestigious restaurants in São Paulo, Brazil: Bolinha. In this Merchant Spotlight feature, we explore delicious Brazilian...
Payscout Partners with Accenture Interactive and Elastic Path to Bring an Immersive Donation Experience to SXSW
At South by Southwest Interactive this year, Payscout is demoing a ground-breaking virtual reality experience for the Peregrine Fund that takes the user on a flight with a California Condor and lets...
WATCH: Payscout CFO Featured in Oracle ERP Cloud Video
Payscout recently partnered with IT Convergence (ITC) to implement and leverage the scalable architecture of Oracle's ERP cloud solution. Oracle has now published a video in which Payscout CFO Dan...
Payscout CFO Obtains Anti-Money Laundering Specialist Certification
Payscout Chief Financial Officer Dan Gardner is now a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) after successfully completing his certification with the Association of Certified Anti-Money...
5 Ways to Turn Consumers into Regular Customers
If you run a retail business, you probably already know that acquiring a new customer can be up to 25 times more expensive than keeping a returning one. With this in mind, keeping your current...
Be Among the World’s Best Communicators
Native English speakers are some of the worst communicators in the world — but there are steps we can take to improve! At Payscout, one of our strengths lies in guiding entrepreneurs through...
A Look at Small Business Finance Accounts
When you open up a small business, part of the process includes making a decision about how you will deposit money and settle your bills. This can also include figuring out how to process credit...
Payscout Leads Payments Industry Advocacy
Payscout CEO and Co-Founder Cleveland Brown joined the Electronic Transactions Association for their annual Executive Fly-In to engage U.S. legislators and regulators on issues relevant to the...
Thought-Leadership in Action: Payscout CEO Leads Advocacy Efforts in Washington, D.C.
In the payment industry, regulatory decisions in Washington can be disruptive to our customers and the payments ecosystem as a whole. That's why Payscout proudly sponsored the ACA International...
Visa Rules on Convenience Fees
In the payments ecosystem, Convenience Fee models are rising in popularity, but many merchants and agencies are unaware that the card-brands have issued explicit rules on how these fees may be...
Managed Risk Merchant Services – “What You Can Expect”
Offering your customers the option to pay via credit or debit card can be a crucial step for your business. Especially when it comes to doing business online, as paying with a debit or credit card...
An Overview of Merchant Processing Services
Whether you have an online business or a regular brick and mortar store, offering your customers the option to pay by card is crucial. That is why you need a merchant processing service partner....
Integrate Transaction Data into Your QuickBooks Account!
Are you looking to integrate QuickBooks with your current credit card processing system? If so, consider trying Payscout for QuickBooks! You can experience the convenience of QuickBooks combined...
13 Fastest-Growing Company in LA
Payscout, a Sherman Oaks, CA-based payments innovation company, has been honored as the #13 Fastest-Growing Company in LA by the Los Angeles Business Journal. This is Payscout's...
Fintech Industry Expands Access for Underserved Communities.
The oldest person ever to complete an Ironman Triathlon, Sister Madonna Buder, once said, “We have all been given different talents. And when we find them, we are obligated to use them for the...
Restaurant Merchant Accounts
Restaurant and hospitality oriented entrepreneurs know that having amazing customer service is a defining part of what makes a business successful. To many customers, the ways they can pay for a...
Merchant Account Basics
If you want to accept credit or debit card transactions as a business, you will need to have a merchant account. Merchant accounts are a business arrangement between you and a credit card processor...
WATCH: Money20/20 EU Panel on Virtual Reality
Payscout CEO & Co-Founder Cleveland Brown recently moderated a panel at Money20/20 Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark on, "Virtual Reality and the Monetization of Immersive Content." In his opening...
San Fernando Valley Business Journal: Payscout #3 Fastest-Growing Company
Payscout, a Sherman Oaks, CA-based payments innovation company, has been honored as the #3 Fastest-Growing Company in 2017 by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. This is Payscout's...
Brazil: A World of Opportunity
As one of the top ten richest countries in the world, with one of the fastest-growing eCommerce markets, Brazil represents a great opportunity for businesses in the United States to access a rapidly...
Adding a Payment Gateway to Your Website
A payment gateway is an important component in any business payment processing model. It is used to ensure that every transaction between the merchant and a consumer undergoes proper processing and...