We opened a lighting warehouse several years ago and our cash and carry policy worked well. We had cheap prices and advertised low overhead as our reason. As the years went by and money got tighter we were losing sales because people did not carry as much cash as a means of self control and tighter budgets. We got in touch with Merchant Industry and had them finally set us up with a free terminal and a credit card processing system. In this economy we must take credit cards, and with our sales today compared to before Merchant Industry helped us prove that fact.

I bet you never thought that the ice cream man that comes around ringing his bells would ever take credit cards. Neither did I until I retired and became the ice cream man. I realized that a strawberry shortcake bar was now over a dollar and when a mom comes with several kids or maybe a whole team of kids, that is a sale I do not want to lose. I contacted Merchant Industry the leading NY merchant service company and they set me up with a mobile system that enables me to take cards. It has become a well known fact at the little league field and sales are up because of it. Who would have guessed?