Comments on: How to get a credit card/debit machine for a store?!? http://smallbusinessmerchantaccounts.org/how-to-get-a-credit-carddebit-machine-for-a-store.htm Sat, 19 May 2012 13:39:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: JusAsking http://smallbusinessmerchantaccounts.org/how-to-get-a-credit-carddebit-machine-for-a-store.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2965 JusAsking Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:03:54 +0000 http://smallbusinessmerchantaccounts.org/how-to-get-a-credit-carddebit-machine-for-a-store.htm#comment-2965 Talk to your bank. If they handle credit cards, and most do these days, a bank representative can set you up with a merchant credit processing account. They will provide the necessary equipment. Keep in mind that you will usually have to pay for the equipment, unless you can guarantee a significant amount of processing business to the bank. And either way, the bank will charge a fee based on the amount of the charges. Those fees vary a lot, so you may want to talk with more than one bank. If one bank gets, say, 3.5 percent of the sale and another charges 2. percent, that can really mount up over the course of a year. BTW, Costco or other warehouse stores often also offer credit card processing, and they usually take a smaller percentage, so that would be something to look into as well. Good luck, and I hope this helps. Talk to your bank. If they handle credit cards, and most do these days, a bank representative can set you up with a merchant credit processing account. They will provide the necessary equipment.

Keep in mind that you will usually have to pay for the equipment, unless you can guarantee a significant amount of processing business to the bank. And either way, the bank will charge a fee based on the amount of the charges. Those fees vary a lot, so you may want to talk with more than one bank. If one bank gets, say, 3.5 percent of the sale and another charges 2. percent, that can really mount up over the course of a year. BTW, Costco or other warehouse stores often also offer credit card processing, and they usually take a smaller percentage, so that would be something to look into as well.

Good luck, and I hope this helps.

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