{"id":84,"date":"2011-05-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/2011\/05\/17\/credit-card-processing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T12:30:00","slug":"credit-card-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/credit-card-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Card Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eMe80znngfM\/TdF7jf-cvaI\/AAAAAAAAAEk\/8Tt3V10uQGQ\/s1600\/credit%2Bcard%2BMB900422348\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-eMe80znngfM\/TdF7jf-cvaI\/AAAAAAAAAEk\/8Tt3V10uQGQ\/s200\/credit%2Bcard%2BMB900422348\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span>We are all aware that &#8220;cash money&#8221; is a universal language but in case you haven&#8217;t noticed, many people are now fluent in speaking &#8220;credit card&#8221;. Paper or plastic doesn&#8217;t just refer to bags any more! The question is, are you speaking your customers&#8217; language?<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span>There is no doubt that people like to have choices. Choices in clothes they wear, the food they order, the fancy (or not-so-fancy) coffee they drink and they like to have options in how to pay for it. I, for one, do not carry cash with me very often and I truly think I could not survive without my debit card (I do not know how I functioned before they came along!). I cannot run across the street to my neighborhood store for a gallon of milk because the merchant only accepts card purchases over $10. I know several people who use their credit cards exclusively so they can rack up points with the credit card company. <span>I understand that many businesses do not offer credit\/debit card processing because they are <span>leery<\/span> of the fees incurred and contract commitment but I wonder just how many customers have been lost to businesses that only accept cash? <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">If these items don&#8217;t convince you that credit\/debit card processing is important to a bottom line then check out this little tidbit: Credit card users spend 12%-15% more than those who pay with cash. Now, wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if that little boost ended up reflected in your sales?<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span>If you&#8217;ve been kicking around the idea of offering card processing to your customers, now is the time to check it out. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialtystoreservices.com\/credit-card-processing\/\">First Payment Services<\/a> can set up a card processing program that is right for your business. Nervous about entering into a long contract? Don&#8217;t be, because FPS offers month-to-month contracts if that is what you desire. If you already have a card processing company, First Payment Services offers a $1,000 guarantee that they will save you money over your current card processor. Nice deal!<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span>So, why not explore the <span>possibility<\/span> of offering card processing? You just may get more people fluent in the language of &#8220;credit card&#8221; walking through your door if you do. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all aware that &#8220;cash money&#8221; is a universal language but in case you haven&#8217;t noticed, many people are now fluent in speaking &#8220;credit card&#8221;. Paper or plastic doesn&#8217;t just refer to bags any more! The question is, are you speaking your customers&#8217; language? There is no doubt that people like to have choices. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/credit-card-processing\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-merchandising-insights","category-retail-planning-best-practices"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.specialtystoreservicesblog.com\/testblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}