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The Convenience Fee Conundrum

The Convenience Fee Conundrum

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...

Business Security Tips for Safer Commerce

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

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

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...

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...

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...

5 Ways to Turn Consumers into Regular Customers

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

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...

Visa Rules on Convenience Fees

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...

An Overview of Merchant Processing Services

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....

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...

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...

Brazil: A World of Opportunity

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

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...