About this episode

The episode discusses five issues that tarnish the merchant processing industry's reputation and offers solutions.

Five things that give the merchant processing industry a bad name. A payment processing statement should never feel like a magic trick, yet too many merchants get hit with fees they never truly agreed to and increases they do not notice until the bank account hurts. Christopher Dryden and Jeremy Stock of Global Legal Law Firm bring on Mitchell Reisberg from Watchdog Merchant Services (https://watchdogmerchantservices.com/) to get blunt about the real-world problems small businesses face with...

People in this episode

Hosts: Christopher Dryden, Jeremy Stock

Guest: Mitchell Reisberg

Topics covered

• merchant processing
• payment processing
• small business challenges
• industry reputation
• fees transparency

Keywords

• merchant processing
• payment fees
• small business
• transparency
• industry problems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Global Legal Law Firm, Watchdog Merchant Services

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