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Industry Insights Accounting Firm Payment Processing: The Seasonal Trap Accounting firm payment processing has a shape most processors ignore: a firm runs the bulk of its card volume in a ten-week window around tax season, then goes quiet for the rest of the year — yet the fixed monthly fees keep billing all twelve months. […]
Read Article →A Deadline You Didn’t Choose Clio Payments Fees After the August 31 LawPay Sunset On August 31, 2026, Clio disabled the LawPay integration inside its practice-management platform — a contract expiry Clio confirmed on the record. Firms that ran card payments through LawPay for years have found that path closed, and the built-in alternative is […]
Read Article →Where the Money Moves Trucking Payment Processing: Why the Card Is the Smallest Part Most guides to trucking payment processing start with the swipe rate. That is the wrong end of the truck. In freight, the card is the smallest way you get paid — the money arrives mostly through factoring, ACH, wire, and paper […]
Read Article →The Migration You Were Forced Into Reduce Acumatica Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving Acumatica Acumatica runs the business — financials, invoicing, accounts receivable. Then, with the 2025 R1 release, Acumatica retired the Authorize.Net plug-in and ended support for it, which forced every shop still on that gateway to migrate. Most took the path of least […]
Read Article →The Connector Your Partner Chose Reduce Dynamics 365 Business Central Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving It Dynamics 365 Business Central runs the business — financials, invoicing, accounts receivable. But it ships with no native payment processing, so to accept cards you added a connector from AppSource, and it was almost certainly whatever your Microsoft implementation […]
Read Article →The Gateway You Already Own Reduce Fishbowl Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving Fishbowl Fishbowl runs the floor — inventory, manufacturing, warehouse, and the sales orders that turn into invoices. When you started taking cards, Fishbowl Payments was right there at signup, so you switched it on. The rate looked reasonable, got approved once, and has […]
Read Article →The Rate That Outlived Three Owners Reduce Sage Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving Sage Sage runs the books — invoicing, accounts receivable, the general ledger. When you first turned on card acceptance, you used its own payments, and it worked. What most businesses never notice is that the payments business has changed hands twice since […]
Read Article →The Default You Never Questioned Reduce Epicor Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving Epicor Epicor runs the plant — production, inventory, purchasing, accounts receivable. So when you turned on card acceptance, Epicor Payment Exchange was right there, native and simple, and you switched it on. The rate looked fine, got approved once, and has priced every […]
Read Article →The Layer You Had to Add Reduce SAP Business One Payment Processing Fees Without Leaving SAP SAP Business One runs the operation — inventory, purchasing, accounts receivable, the general ledger. But it ships with no way to take a card on its own, so at go-live you bolted on an add-on to close the gap. […]
Read Article →The Convenience That Costs Reduce NetSuite Payment Processing Fees Without Ripping Out NetSuite NetSuite runs the business — orders, inventory, accounts receivable, the general ledger. So when it came time to take card payments, switching on NetSuite Pay or a SuitePayments gateway was the obvious move: payments reconcile straight against the invoice, with no second […]
Read Article →The Volume Trap Wholesale Payment Processing Punishes the Thing You Do Best Distribution runs on volume and thin margins. You move large orders to other businesses, you usually carry them on net-30 to net-90 terms, and your customers settle across cards, ACH, checks, and wires — the same spread that shapes trucking payment processing, where […]
Read Article →The Line Item Nobody Shopped Manufacturing Payment Processing Is a Markup Problem Hiding in Plain Sight A manufacturer’s money moves differently from a retailer’s. You sell to other businesses, you bill against purchase orders, and your customers pay on net-30, net-60, sometimes net-90 terms. When one of those invoices gets paid by card, the fee […]
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