Accounting and Finance

Fundbox Review: Invoice Financing

Invoice financing is a popular method of obtaining short-term business capital to run your business. Fundbox offers both invoice financing and traditional business lines of credit. While these types of loans carry large fees, they can be a great short-term financing option for businesses with bad or no credit. If you’re looking for working capital, […]

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Fundbox is a startup that offers working capital options for businesses through invoice financing or lines of credit.

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ecommerce

Magento Review – Ecommerce Options for Your Business

With the acquisition, its name changed to Adobe Commerce, though you may still see it referred to as Magento, even on Adobe’s site. In this review we’ll dig into Magento / Adobe Commerce, including its main features, benefits, customizations, integrations, and payment options. You’ll get a good overview of what the platform can offer you […]

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Magento is an eCommerce platform that lets you sell products via a website, as an ecommerce shop. It was acquired by Adobe in 2018.

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Credit Card Processing

Visa’s Misuse of Authorization Fee

Sometimes called “ghost authorizations,” misused authorizations are transactions that are neither settled nor reversed properly. The fee attempts to cut down on such authorizations. Therefore, if you don’t follow a Visa authorization with a matching clearing transaction, you’ll incur the Misuse of Authorization Fee. You could also incur the fee in the case of a […]

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The Misuse of Authorization Fee is an assessment charge that Visa imposes on transactions that don’t follow proper authorization procedures.

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Accounting and Finance

BlueVine: Invoice Factoring and Credit Lines for Liquidity

We’ve previously discussed invoice financing, in which a company uses your business’s outstanding invoices as collateral to finance a loan. BlueVine takes this concept one step further by offering invoice factoring. The company partners with FundThrough to provide more capital and flexibility. In this BlueVine review, we’ll look at what that entails and when it […]

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BlueVine offers invoice factoring and lines of credit for improved cash flow while you’re waiting on payment from outstanding invoices.

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Accounting and Finance, B2B

What Is Behalf? Receive a Loan to Pay Your Vendors

Note: As of 2023, Behalf’s website is not active, nor is its partner page with Amazon AWS, and it appears that the company may no longer be operating. We’re leaving this article for historical purposes at this time. It’s similar to companies offering point-of-sale loans to finance purchases (see our Affirm review for more info […]

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Smaller B2B companies know the money constraints of net terms. Behalf offers short-term financing for B2B purchases to help ease the pain.

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Credit Card Processing

Visa’s Base II Credit Voucher Fee

Technically, there are two of these fees: the credit voucher fee and the Base II Credit Voucher Fee. The difference is that the Base II Credit Voucher Fee applies to US-based transactions. From there, the fee is split into Credit Voucher Fee (Debit), Credit Voucher Fee (Credit), Base II Credit Voucher Fee (Debit), and Base […]

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Visa’s Base II Credit Voucher Fee is an assessment fee that Visa charges when your business refunds a customer’s money.  There are separate fees for credit and debit.

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Credit Card Processing

Mastercard Acquirer Program Support Fee

Essentially, it applies under the same circumstances as the Cross Border Fee (domestic). One or both fees can apply to the same transaction. Mastercard currently sets the APSF at 0.85%. Assessment Fees Acquirer Program Support Fee Locating the Fee on Processing Statements Finding the Lowest Cost Credit Card Processor Assessment Fees A non-negotiable component of […]

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Mastercard’s Acquirer Program Support Fee is an assessment fee for accepting Mastercards that were issued outside of the United States.

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Accounting and Finance, ecommerce

What is Affirm? Understanding Purchase Financing

Affirm is one of the new wave of companies offering point of sale loans to finance purchases. Ticketing service Eventbrite, retailers Wayfair and Casper, and travel site Expedia offer point of sale financing. Essentially, when a consumer checks out on a website, they have the option of paying by taking out a loan from Affirm […]

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Affirm loans are a short-term loan option for financing purchases at the time of sale, with a simple application and no hard credit check.

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