Regulatory Changes Influence the Credit Card Processing Business

By Sandy Ingram


One method of obtaining a sales lead generation is via a complementary partner referral. By building relationships with other sales reps in a business to business industry, you are going to find various individuals that are interested in buying products you are selling. If you sell computer hardware, if you build relationships with other IT professionals, or other business individuals in the world of computers, hardware and software, and similar products, you can generate leads via referrals from these individuals.

Tax Code Changes: An Overview These new changes that developed at the beginning of the year have created quite the workload within the credit card processing business. Now, all merchant service providers must report each individual merchant's annual transaction volume. All information needs to be delivered to the IRS via 1099-K form. While this may seem like a simple task, failing to provide completely accurate forms and information could cause headaches, among many other problems, come tax time.

Set and track your goals-Go for it! Your managers already do this with you to some degree if you work for a company. However, you have to do it for yourself, too. The best salespeople in the world are meticulous about how much money they want to make, what they have to do to get it, what they will do with the money, and where they are in at any moment in respect to those things. Goal setting helps you become a meaningful specific and not a wandering generality. Your personal goals give you the motivation to act every day, in spite of the obstacles and to do it with a sense of urgency to win. So think big and act big!

Currently, reporting and activity accounting is based specifically on each individual merchant account (MID), but with the new regulation, the reporting has to be done via 1099-K for each Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). This means processors must now combine their reporting by TIN, instead of by MID.

No matter what industry you sell goods and services in, by attending these shows, you are going to find hundreds of consumers that are looking to purchase, and you have to show them that your products are better than the competitors.

Finally, it takes an extra amount of time and effort to report perfectly accurate information to the IRS. If the information isn't completely precise, it could result in confusion come tax time. This form requires that the business name and TIN match. Although this seems like a simple task, a lot of work is going in to making sure that processors have valid name and TIN combinations for each merchant.

Although these recent regulations can at times cause merchant fees, they should be set to offset the costs, not to create a completely new stream of revenue. When choosing a credit card processing partner, it's important to have knowledge of their plans to comply with government regulations or other changes from the card associations.




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