Advertiser Disclosure

Credit Card Processing Blog Posts

The Complete Guide To Venmo For Nonprofits: How & Why To Use Venmo For Donations & Fundraisers

A Venmo charity profile is a special kind of Venmo profile available to PayPal-certified 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Venmo charity profiles offer a variety of benefits. For example, charity profiles also allow nonprofits to use their organization as a username, get a blue verified-charity checkmark, take donations, generate donation reports, and save donor contact information for communicating with donors later on.

Read More
Dec 7, 2022 Filed under: Credit Card Processing, Digital Wallets and Alternative Payments, Small Business
Stripe versus Shopify

Stripe VS Shopify

Both Stripe and Shopify Payments are excellent choices for a multichannel business, but both providers offer several unique features that will make one a better choice than the other for businesses that need those features. Stripe is generally less expensive overall due to the lack of a monthly subscription fee for a basic account.

Read More
Nov 28, 2022 Filed under: Credit Card Processing

Helcim VS Square

In this article, we’ll compare Helcim and Square feature-by-feature, showing you the benefits and drawbacks of each provider and explaining where each company excels and where it falls short.

Read More
May 1, 2023 Filed under: Credit Card Processing, Hardware

Merchant Account Fees Explained: Everything You Need To Know About Credit Card Merchant Fees

While merchant account fees are definitely irritating (and expensive!), they’re often an inevitable cost of doing business. Even if you sign up with a payment service provider like Square that doesn’t charge monthly fees, you’ll still be paying the costs associated with maintaining your account in the form of higher transaction processing rates.

Read More
Mar 28, 2023 Filed under: Credit Card Processing

We Want Your Feedback!

Help us to improve by providing some feedback on your experience today.

The vendors that appear on this list were chosen by subject matter experts on the basis of product quality, wide usage and availability, and positive reputation.

Merchant Maverick’s ratings are editorial in nature, and are not aggregated from user reviews. Each staff reviewer at Merchant Maverick is a subject matter expert with experience researching, testing, and evaluating small business software and services. The rating of this company or service is based on the author’s expert opinion and analysis of the product, and assessed and seconded by another subject matter expert on staff before publication. Merchant Maverick’s ratings are not influenced by affiliate partnerships.

Our unbiased reviews and content are supported in part by affiliate partnerships, and we adhere to strict guidelines to preserve editorial integrity. The editorial content on this page is not provided by any of the companies mentioned and has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities. Opinions expressed here are author’s alone.

Sign up for the Maverick Newsletter

  • Please select topics of interest

  • We occasionally send out emails with special offers.
  • Hidden
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.