CardPaymentOptions.com

Highly Engaged Employees

Based in Austin, TX, CardPaymentOptions.com is website dedicated to organizing a coalition of merchants and industry professionals who want to enact change in the merchant credit card processing industry. Our goal is to create awareness of current industry practices as well as push for standards by which all banks, processors, sales organizations a... nd independent resellers must abide when marketing and servicing merchant accounts to small and large businesses. These standards include penalizing deceptive rate quoting and marketing tactics, imposing uniform rate packaging for bucketed pricing schemes, enforcing consistent rate and fee disclosure across providers through standardized documentation (similar to Truth in Lending forms of the mortgage industry), and eliminating unfavorable and unfair business practices including "retention" Early Termination Fees (aka; Retention ETFs), non-cancellable lease agreements, excessive PCI Compliance Fees, auto-renewing contracts, and Liquidated Damages clauses. As part of our movement, we publish merchant account reviews and ratings to help small businesses find ethical merchant services providers. In addition to reviews, you will also find tips, advice, and relevant industry news articles as well as a free ebook entitled "Fee Sweep," which teaches merchants how to eliminate unfavorable contract provisions, unnecessary fees, and inflated rate pricing schemes. Join our coalition and help make difference in the credit card processing industry by signing up for our a monthly newsletter which covers information on how to participate in our movement and other advice related to credit card processing.Read More