For the average 9-5er, time is money, but above all, time is precious. Hectic work schedules and family activities dictate the majority of how the average person’s day is spent. Many of us come home from a busy day and the last thing we want to do is whip up a gourmet family meal or deal with a late night shopping trip. With the expansion of grocery and food delivery services, time spent prepping meals can be cut in half by having your weekly meals and groceries delivered directly to your door. For companies providing these services, being equipped with ...Read More »

Samoas®, Thin Mints, Tagalongs and more… we’ve all fallen victim to a box of Girl Scouts cookies - or four. Accompanied by those adorable little girls in their green vests decorated with an array of patches, each representing a special task or skill previously completed, who could say no? With fall fundraising season already in full swing, The Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio have stepped up their fundraising efforts this fall by joining the high tech world of mobile payments. With a little help from mobile point of sale solution, PayAnywhere (www.payanywhere.com), the “sorry I don’t have any cash on ...Read More »

For food trucks, flea markets, independent vendors and individual contractors, PayAnywhere is the perfect combination of a mobile credit card reader and smartphone app designed to make on the go transactions a breeze. This week TechRadar’s Alex Roth reviewed the three part service: attachable card reader, mobile app and processing platform, and offered his professional opinion on the inner workings of the PayAnywhere solution. His review offers a positive look into PayAnywhere’s high-grade security, detailed app features such as custom receipts, tips and signatures, its ability to connect wirelessly to printers and of course, the attractive transaction fees. Roth especially ...Read More »

It’s nearly impossible to fathom the value of our mobile device’s contents until, gasp, they are gone. Unfortunately, a lot of things can happen to your iPhone or iPad to put your data and device in danger. They can get lost, stolen or start doing backflips onto the ground, completely smashing themselves to bits. In any event, if any of the above happens to your beloved device, backing up your information is a sure fire way to help you keep your valued data and information, not to mention your sanity. For those of us that experience the harsh realities life throws our ...Read More »

Let the games begin! With the season changing from summer to fall and kids heading back to school, it also means that the fall sports season has arrived.  As we replace swimsuits and flip flops with jerseys and cleats, we usher in the beginning of the football, soccer and hockey season. Whether your kids are playing for their school soccer league, or cheerleading from the sidelines for the football season, there is nearly always a price for participation. Parents can be expected to shell out hundreds of dollars over the course of a sports season, for everything from administrative dues and ...Read More »

With children across America heading back to school this fall - some for the last time and some for the first – we can guarantee that the frenzy of fundraising events, club dues and sporting event ticket sales is right around the corner. For parents and school officials the upcoming surge of events and ticket sales can be a headache. Handling payment transactions can be not only a lengthy but expensive process. From the rental of a credit card terminal potentially costing hundreds of dollars for a few hours, to the unpredictability of a check bouncing, a well-planned school function can ...Read More »

On your last trip to Meijer did you notice something new on the shelves? The Michigan-based retailer, with more than 200 supercenters and grocery stores across five states, is now stocking the PayAnywhere credit card reader for smartphones and tablets. This partnership adds even more locations where merchants of any size can kick start their businesses by accepting credit card payments anytime, anywhere. The PayAnywhere mobile credit card reader plugs into the audio jack of a smartphone or tablet, transforming the device into a mobile payment terminal that can swipe credit cards to process payments. Within a few hours after ...Read More »

For all you iOS junkies out there grab your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and listen up. We know business owners are looking for new options that allow them to accept credit card payments, but what is even more important to you all is the ability to accept cards efficiently and at a low cost that doesn’t leave you with hidden fees, a lengthy contract, or without good customer and technical support. For those merchants who are not familiar, PayAnywhere is the payment industry’s only enterprise-grade, “pay-as-you-go” mobile point of sale solution suited for any size merchant, and this week we ...Read More »

It’s been nearly 150 years since the first food trucks –known as chuck wagons – appeared on the American scene. Since then food carts and trucks have become wildly popular, with these tiny restaurants creating gourmet food courts in vacant lots in cities all over America. There are two major differences between the food carts of yesteryear and those of today: first, the food is so much better; and second, patrons can now pay with credit cards. The modern food truck revolution in full swing, forever changing the concept of “restaurant.” Today’s food trucks are not roving “roach coaches” selling greasy ...Read More »

When you hear that we offer our merchant customers free “Heat Maps,” it may conjure up an image of a medically prescribed back brace or a weather map dedicated to reporting the latest natural disaster. Nope! PayAnywhere’s Heat Map is actually a tool that can be used to optimize your business. The PayAnywhere Heat Map is a two-dimensional representation of a digital map that uses the GPS features built into your mobile phone or tablet to show where you have completed transactions using the PayAnywhere app. The Heat Map gives you an easy to digest visual summary of all your transactions ...Read More »