When you set up your payment gateway to receive online payments, you may be required to open a separate merchant account, or it may be optional, depending on various parameters relating to your business and banking setup. If you’re wondering whether this is something you actually need or want, we’ve got some helpful guidelines. Hold up […]
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5 finance tech disruptors to watch in 2014
The world of online and in-store payments has been changing rapidly in the past few years. Developers, financial institutions and innovators are looking at new ways to pay and collect payment, boost sales and save more. We’re clearly currently in a transition period where everyone’s figuring out what makes sense when it comes to paying […]
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Why the tech world’s heavyweights are betting on open source
Conventional wisdom has it that big business is the antithesis of open source. How can you be an industry-leading multinational corporation that’s publicly traded if you think it’s okay to show the world what’s going on under the hood? How can you maintain enterprise-level brand mystique if you don’t have the shroud of mystery to […]
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Don’t let your business get ambushed by unexpected credit card processing fees
Getting your business set up so that clients can pay you online can be a major game changer. You’ll get paid faster and more easily. But it comes with costs. Our awesome, free invoicing app will integrate with the payment gateway of your choice for free, but these shrewd financial institutions that provide the cash […]
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5 major home office lifestyle blunders to avoid
Working from home is a dream come true for many of us. It’s one of the biggest perks of being a freelancer. No more commuting, no boss looking over your shoulder, and no need to get dressed up, or at all, for work every day. No more expensive cafeteria lunches or brown bagging it. No […]
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Avoiding the follies of the small business bootstrapper’s disposition
It takes a special type of person to take the plunge and start a company from thin air. It takes a whole lot of vision, faith, innovation and drive. You have to believe that what you’re working on is so distinctive and great that no matter how tough things get, it’ll all pan out, and […]
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Open source isn’t just for software anymore
Prefer using LibreOffice over Microsoft’s version, which will run you several hundred dollars more? Did you try jailbreaking your iOS device yet? Why should your life without proprietary constraints stop there? Go on and try eating some lightly steamed, homegrown Midnight Lightning zucchini from the public domain, or filling your domicile with some customizable, mix-and-match […]
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Getting started with the basics of online payments and invoices
Setting up your own business is an exciting if sometimes stressful endeavor. Along with self-employment advantages like schedule flexibility, pursuing a dream and having full control come the responsibilities of setting yourself up financially to bill clients, pay taxes and pay others. Accept Credit Cards Online You might have seen content around the web telling […]
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Indisputable benefits of cloud-based invoicing and billing for freelancers
Remember the gold old days, back when the internet was just a dream among science fiction aficionados and clouds were nothing more than fluffy white things in the sky? Those were the days when freelancers issued hand-written or word processor-generated invoices. So why can’t you keep invoicing the old-fashioned way, creating invoices on your desktop […]
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