With COVID-19 and government regulations wreaking havoc on the small business community across the country, it’s incredibly important for small businesses to stick together. Everywhere I turn, I hear business owners talking about the importance of shopping locally. Why buy from Amazon when you can support a local business, right? Well, why use Square for…
Maryland’s House Bill 777 was signed into law on April 30, 2019 and took effect October 1, 2019. Jaron Rice, Founder & CEO of Magothy Payments, authored this bill to help protect Maryland small businesses from the predators in the payment processing industry. In times past, big banks and merchant services providers could lock small…
In this video we offered some clarification on statements made in the previous video regarding interchange pricing and downgrades when a transaction fails the AVS. If the account is structured as a MOTO (mail order telephone order) or e-commerce account, you will not get an interchange downgrade if the billing address is wrong. However, you…
How is your processing account setup? That’s an important question. If you’re a card-not-present business – meaning you’re rarely in front of your customer running their card through a terminal, but keying in their information instead – you could be paying additional fees if your account is setup as a retail account as opposed to…
The Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland is doing a Black-Owned Business Spotlight to bring awareness to accredited, black-owned businesses in the Greater Maryland area. Our Founder & CEO, Jaron Rice, did an interview with them to talk more about our company, our beliefs, and the keys to our success. Magothy Payments is Maryland’s highest-rated…
If you purchase a hardware and/or software that requires you to use a specific merchant services provider, you may find yourself stuck down the road after investing quite a bit to get up and running. Always make sure you can take your solution with you if you leave your payment processor. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT: Ladies and…
If you regularly order carryout from a local restaurant, considering ordering from them directly through their website or over the phone as opposed to using DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, and the like. These companies can charge 30% to the business for orders that come through their platform even if the customer is coming to pick…
There are a number of reasons your customer’s card is declined. Maybe they don’t have the funds available. Perhaps you keyed in the card number wrong. It’s possible that the AVS (address verification service) failed because the billing address entered is incorrect and your gateway is setup to decline such transactions. There are a host…
Sometimes, you have to ask your prospective clients tough questions. When you work in a retention industry like I do, the only thing worse than not landing an account is landing the account with margins so thin you’re basically working for free. In today’s economy, we’re seeing the commoditization of almost everything. This is due…
Now, I didn’t say you have to like it. But you should definitely learn from it. As a payment processor, I work in a retention industry. So, while getting a sale is great, maintaining a relationship and keeping a client is much, much better because we make money every month off of our clients based…