Best payment system for small business

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For those of you who run small businesses and take electronic payment (paypal/zelle/venmo, etc) - give me your experience with best/worst. I need to set one up and would like some advice.
 
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What type of business? I own an archery shop and use Fortis. If you aren't in a "high risk" business you might get away with one of the mainstream processors. I used Zettle for a while which I liked but it's owned by Paypal and I don't like their politics nor do they like mine!
 
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What type of business? I own an archery shop and use Fortis. If you aren't in a "high risk" business you might get away with one of the mainstream processors. I used Zettle for a while which I liked but it's owned by Paypal and I don't like their politics nor do they like mine!


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What type of business? I own an archery shop and use Fortis. If you aren't in a "high risk" business you might get away with one of the mainstream processors. I used Zettle for a while which I liked but it's owned by Paypal and I don't like their politics nor do they like mine!
That isn’t true, you are probably thinking of Venmo.

A non-profit I am associate with uses Square, moved there from PayPal partially for the reason stated above.
 
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Not saying it’s the best but we use Intuit/quickbooks. We don’t use it often; Specialty construction subcontractor.


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That isn’t true, you are probably thinking of Venmo.

A non-profit I am associate with uses Square, moved there from PayPal partially for the reason stated above.
Zettle is definitely owned by Paypal. You may be confused with Zelle. Two different processors
 
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I'm in publishing also. We swapped a few years ago to Stripe when we moved to online only invoicing through Invoicely. It has its limitations but it's really easy to use and the pricing is great. I have had zero issues with this combo for the past three years.

Prior to that I was using a system designed specifically for periodical publishers that was a huge PITA.
 
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I've used square for a couple years on my outfitting and land management projects. Nothing but great things to say for their customer service.
 
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Thanks for all the comments. Seeing a few new names for me to look into.
 
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I've been using Freshbooks for my new biz and they have Stripe for payments... so far so good.
 
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The best payment system for a small business depends on its specific needs, such as ease of use, transaction fees, and integration options...
I’ll second this. Lots of questions around what specific problems you’re trying to solve. I feel like I’m starting to see this a lot from a small business perspective.
 

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Costco offers payment processing through Elavon. Never had an issue and fees were significantly less
 
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We have used Square for our food truck business. We run it off of our cell phones hot spot and have never had an issue.

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There is a pro 2a payment company. I'm not familiar with it but they sponsor the v2 f class championship. Look on YouTube for f class points series and they are mentioned in the beginning of each video.
 
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