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If you have any experience with selling at farmers’ markets, craft fairs, or other large gatherings, you know that internet availability can be spotty at best in these settings. If your card reader’s mobile POS has a good offline mode, you can take payments while offline, then process them once you establish a connection.

Choosing the right card reader for your business is a good first step towards meeting your customers’ needs. Making the right choice involves knowing how a card reader works and understanding the different fees and rates involved.

Mobile credit card readers offer flexibility and efficiency for businesses of all sizes and types. From saving on processing fees to enhancing customer experience, the advantages are clear. And as technology continues to evolve, staying updated with tools like these can significantly benefit your business’s bottom line. Before making a choice, it’s wise to explore the best credit card reader options tailored to your business needs.

Small, mobile credit card readers — the kind that need to be paired with a smartphone or tablet running POS software — generally cost between $29 and $120. Most of these devices can take EMV (chip card) and NFC (contactless) payments, and some can still take magstripe payments.

In today’s world, consumers are less likely than ever to carry cash. They expect to be able to use credit or debit cards to make purchases, no matter where they happen to be. In short, credit card readers allow merchants to meet customers where they are and allow them to pay with the modern payment methods they increasingly prefer, even in settings that make a full register setup impractical.

While you’re actively driving or delivering, you’re working for what’s known as a Transportation Network Company (i.e., Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, and so on). Your TNC is required in most cases to provide insurance coverage. While you’re waiting for a job and in between jobs, you need personal auto insurance for your car. But making deliveries or offering rideshares may invalidate your coverage.

If it’s too late for you to withdraw your ERC request, but you know that the request is invalid and that you weren’t actually eligible for the employee retention credit, you may be faced with filing error penalties and/or held responsible for repaying the employee retention credit.

Tax laws vary from state to state, so how the ERC affects your state income tax return is based on where you live. Many states have adopted federal laws for the treatment of ERC for state tax purposes, while others have created their own laws.

An ERC refund refers to the employee retention credit that eligible taxpayers can receive from the IRS, while an ERC loan is a type of advance that some companies offer to give employers faster access to their ERC credit.

The goal of a ghost preparer is to take advantage of taxpayers by taking a large fee or directing the taxpayers return to their own bank account or mailing address without the taxpayer’s knowledge — and then disappear without a trace to secure their fraudulent money can be tracked.