Are you concerned that the credit card transaction fees your business is currently paying to its merchant services provider are too high? You probably should be. As we’ll demonstrate in this article, the most expensive widely-available tariff on the market costs nearly three times as much as the cheapest. A credit card transaction fee is […]

Choosing the right EPOS system for your restaurants or restaurants has never been more crucial since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic. Right now. the right EPOS system can literally be the difference between making a profit during difficult economic times and just about breaking even. The right EPOS system for your restaurant or group […]

To take credit and debit card payments face-to-face from customers visiting your retail store, café, or restaurant, you’ll need a PDQ machine. It’s worth the investment – believe us. Have you ever experienced the disappointment of visiting a shop only to realise that, when you get to the counter to pay for your goods, they […]

Shopping has been moving online in recent years and this trend accelerated greatly during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. If you want to be able to sell your products and services over the internet to customers from your own website, you need to choose an online payment gateway. What is an online payment gateway? An […]

If you’re currently trying to compare EPOS systems available to find which offers the right solution for your business, we appreciate that it’s a complicated market meaning that it’s actually quite difficult to come to a decision. By visiting our site, we think you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to BusinessCostSaver – we’re a […]

Last year, the amount of goods and services sold online in the UK rose by another 6.7%. Real-world, physical stores have been experiencing significant difficulties in recent years because of rises in wages and rates and the poor performance of the pound. Perhaps the biggest reason for the decline in High Street and boutique retail, […]

In November 2006, internet sales accounted for just 2.6% of all retail sales in the UK. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, that had risen to 21.4% in the preceding Christmas period. People have lost their fear of ordering over the internet and, in response, the number of new online payment systems providers has […]

It’s a well-known fact that people spend money online and in retail stores when they use a credit or a debit card. Because physical cash is not exchanged between a retailer and their customer, it seems that, somehow, we’re absolved of the financial pain from the customer of making payment. And if the experience of […]

Paymentsense are one of the world’s fastest growing merchant services providers and they’ve recently passed the 30,000 customer benchmark here in the UK. Merchant services providers are the companies which allow your business to take credit and debit card payments from customers online, in person, and over the phone. This is a hugely competitive sector […]

With over 40,000 UK customers and a team of 90 local payment consultants, Payzone’s merchant account services are very much focused on the British small-to-medium-sized business market. They’re about to go through a major rebranding exercise but, at time of writing, they are still offering payment solutions to business under their own brand. In this […]

Worldpay are one of the world’s largest card payment processing companies working with hundreds of thousands of businesses in dozens of countries around the world. As opposed to other newer entrants in the market, they have the history, the reach, the technology, and the infrastructure to provide virtually any type of payment processing service that […]

Nowadays, we all expect to be able to pay for goods and services by credit or debit card, no matter how small the sum. Small businesses have long since been aware of the need to cater to their customer’s needs and keep up with their expectations – and now they expect to be able to […]

Most of us have shopped online at some point in our lives. Probably a similar number of us, particularly from older generations, have seen something they liked in a newspaper or a catalogue and phoned up to order it. If you want your company to able to take credit and debit card payments online or […]

Despite our growing love for and dependence on online shopping and the convenience of a life lived digitally, people still love to interact, browse and shop in the real world. No matter how convenient and affordable internet shopping is, the experience of going into a shop can simply not be duplicated on an app or […]

Sometimes it’s easier, when a customer is on the phone with you, to take their payment there and then. Alternatively, a customer may be a member of an older generation and they might not want to enter their details onto a website. If your customers’ cheques always seem to get lost in the post, wouldn’t […]