{"id":3255,"date":"2016-05-04T16:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2016-05-04T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T20:25:49","slug":"there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"THERE AIN&#8217;T NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Credit Card Terminal for&#8230;..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3256\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/562599253_cdc95ade01_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/562599253_cdc95ade01_o-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"FREE\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/562599253_cdc95ade01_o-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/562599253_cdc95ade01_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/RHta8\">Credit: Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some processors offer a free terminal to their merchants, but as we all know, there ain\u2019t no such thing as a free lunch! A free terminal carries with it a yearly Terminal Replacement or Warranty charge of $50 to $100\/year. That\u2019s still much less than what a lease would cost you, but it&#8217;s not really<strong> FREE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not currently in a lease but are considering one, don\u2019t be deceived. Instead, calculate the total cost of leasing vs. owning. The best and most affordable option still lies in ownership.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If you need to set up an account give us a call at 888-996-2273<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit Card Terminal for&#8230;.. Some processors offer a free terminal to their merchants, but as we all know, there ain\u2019t<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/there-aint-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,139],"tags":[21,222,808,130],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-travel-agency-agents","tag-credit-card-2","tag-merchants-2","tag-processors","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}