- Your industry category – make sure that you’re not considered a “high risk merchant”
- Whether you plan to sell via in-person transactions, online or both
- Number of locations
- How you accept transactions: on a terminal or card reader, or through your website or your own software
- Types of payments you’d like to accept: credit cards, ach, google pay™, apple pay®, gift cards, ebt, etc.
- How quickly you would like to receive your funds
- Estimated annual volume – it’s ok if you’re not sure if you’ll be a low-volume or high-volume business, just a ballpark estimation is needed
- Estimation of card present, in-person transactions
- Estimation of card not present transactions made over the phone or through your online store