In a world of rampant identity theft and deceptive shell companies, how do you know you’re dealing with an honest, licensed and trustworthy credit card processing company?
Here are some resources you can use to verify the legitimacy and business practices of a credit card processor:
- Visa maintains a list of all registered sales offices on their website. Make sure that your processor is listed and registered with Visa to sell their products, you’ll find Leap Payments on page 7 of this list.
- Verify the credit card processor with the Better Business Bureau – Leap Payments is a BBB accredited organization with an “A” rating and zero complaints.
- Make sure the company indicates somewhere on their website the name of their sponsor bank, every credit card processor needs a sponsor bank – for example Leap Payments uses US Bank and Elavon as seen on the footer of our homepage.
- Search negative reporting websites such as Ripoff Report and Complaints Board to see if the credit card processing company has any complaints. These sites host volumes of negative reports about credit card processing companies who don’t treat their clients well.
- Verify the testimonials and client reviews. Many processors have fake client testimonials on their website that frankly they wrote themselves. By comparison Leap Payments proudly posts real client comments to our testimonial page, with links to the client’s website and the reviewer’s name. Feel free to contact any or all of our testimonials.
Our best advice – Be careful. The founders of Leap Payments were fed up with deceptive sales tactics and unfair pricing policies of our competitors so we set out to create a simply better credit card processing company. We treat every client with the respect and honesty that you deserve and help you understand how to reduce your fees. We continually hear horror stories from our new clients who share their experiences from their former processor and these are the ones that you can see on the BBB, Ripoff Report and Complaints Board sites. There are simply too many credit card processing sales reps working for other companies who are either intentionally deceptive or uneducated about how credit card processing works. Leap Payments is different.
Find a trustworthy partner for your business using the resources provided above. We hope in the end that you too choose Leap Payments because we know that your business deserves to work with experts with the highest reputation.
