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Moving companies, online stores, e-commerce, mom and pop, small business, wholesale.
Specializes in
Payroc is a merchant account provider that processes payments for a wide variety of businesses, including mom and pop businesses and smaller stores, and e-commerce and online stores.
Pricing Summary
Setup Fee: $0
Monthly Fee: $25
Swipe Rate: Interchange-plus
Keyed-in Rate: Interchange-plus
Early Termination Fee : $375
Contract Terms:
Payroc was founded in 2003 by James Oberman in the Tinley Park area of Chicago, Illinois, where the headquarters still reside. Payroc mainly services online businesses, smaller businesses, high volume, and high-risk businesses.
Payroc is a merchant account provider that deals with a lot of different businesses. It is a reseller of First Data, TSYS, Chase Merchant Services, and Vantiv. It used to operate under the name 'Retriever Payments Chicago.' These days, Payroc has two main offices and acquired iTransact in 2016 and Integrated Payment Systems in 2018. Its focus is on smaller businesses and online stores, where it processes and gets most of its business. It has a high overall reputation, with few lodged complaints that it has not answered or dealt with in the past several years. Payroc advertises and offers interchange-plus pricing to its merchants and customers. Payroc services over 30,000 clients and processes nearly $10 billion annually.
Head Quarters
Des Plaines, IL
Year Founded
2003
CEO
James Oberman
Employees
500
Merchant Provider Risk Tolerance
No setup fee.
Serves high risk businesses.
Same day and next day funding for merchants.
Offers risk monitoring and risk management to its customers.
Domestic phone support is available during business hours.
Early termination fee.
Monthly fee assessed.
Employs independent sales agents.
Long term contract.
Tiered pricing offered.
Point 1: Online Payments and Virtual Terminals
Payroc offers online credit and debit card processing. It does this via a payment gateway and a virtual terminal. Considering Payroc has many e-commerce clients and online stores that it processes payments for, these are probably among its most-used services. Payroc additionally syncs a selling experience across different platforms: like your main website, your social media platforms, and other places, by integrating Google and Facebook.
Point 2: Same-Day/Next-Day Funding
As some of the merchants' financial services, Payroc allows and facilitates the same day and next-day funding to merchants. This means that the payments take much less time to process before they're in your business or personal bank account. To some companies that offer on shakier ground, this kind of quicker processing can be precious for them. Payroc also offers 0% fees on credit card processing with its CashRewards system.
Point 3: Risk Monitoring and Risk Management
Payroc has risk monitoring and risk management as part of the services that it offers to merchants. This means a more secure experience for both the merchant as well as the customer. Chargebacks are generally dangerous to a merchant, and being associated with fraud is twice as deadly. By monitoring and managing risk, Payroc can assist merchants by preventing fraud before it is about to begin occurring.
Discloses All Important Terms
No
Public Pricing Available
No
Payroc reveals that it uses an interchange-plus pricing model, but the exact rates are not relatively straightforward. As Payroc is the reseller of so many different companies, specific fees or aspects of its services may likely change slightly depending on what contract or agreement it is reselling to a particular merchant at a particular time. Interchange-plus is the most transparent, honest kind of pricing, but besides knowing the pricing model, not much is known about the actual rates and fees that Payroc offers to merchants.
Pricing Model
Interchange PlusTiered Pricing
Swiped Rate
Interchange-plus
Keyed-in Rate
Interchange-plus
Mobile Payment Rate
Virtual Terminal Rate
Interchange-plus
Monthly Fee
$25
Payment Gateway Fee
Undisclosed
Batch Fee
Undisclosed
Early Termination Fee
$375
PCI Compliance Fee
Undisclosed
Equipment Lease Terms
Undisclosed
Address Verification Service (AVS)
Application Fee
Account Setup Fee
$0
Gateway Setup Fee
Undisclosed
Annual Fee
up to $79
Monthly Minimum
Undisclosed
Statement Fee
Payroc offers various contracts to the merchants who attempt to use it as their account provider. As a reseller of other companies, the contract's length and specific terms are probably up for debate and may change frequently. First Data generally uses a three-year agreement with an early termination fee of $295. However, a merchant complained of an early termination fee of around $375, so Payroc's different contracts may have different rates for other parts of the deals. Still, there are not many complaints about Payroc's contracts, which suggests they are not overly unfair or incredibly deceptive/predatory.
Contract Length
3 Years
Early Termination Fee
$375
Payroc has a low amount of complaints and high ratings from most websites or other reviewers. BBB has it listed as a 4.62 out of 5 with 21 reviews. It has been in business for 17 years but has been accredited for 4, since 2016. Payroc only has a few complaints on BBB, and most of them are closed. Google has them rated at a 4.2 out of 5 with 60 reviews. Glassdoor and various other companies also report ratings of over four stars.
There are currently no known lawsuits involving Payroc nor any recent ones in the past, class-action or otherwise. The few complaints mentioned about Payroc generally involved early termination fees or an accusation that specific terms of the contract were misrepresented. These complaints are isolated and far and few between.
BBB
A+(6 complaints)
4.3 Stars / 56 Reviews
2 Stars / Based on the opinion of 4 people
Yelp
No Reviews yet
Total Online Reviews
90+
Total Online Complaints
Lawsuits
None
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