Posts tagged with ‘money’

Companies like Square, PayPal and other are making it DEAD simple to take credit cards with low transaction fees that link directly to your bank account. All you need is a smartphone, a FREE app, and the credit card reader to use their service (that's also free in most cases). So remind me why you can't take my [plastic] money?

As a family in this day and age, it's safe to say we integrate technology into our daily lives quite easily. Even though our gadgets stay within arms reach at all times, we still try to spend quality time with each other - No tech allowed. We attempt to implement this family rule everyday during dinner time. Every once in a while, we all lapse and take a peek at an incoming text or email. Our kids are only four and two years old, but they want to invite some talking doll or gadget with a bunch of lights and noises to the dinner table. So we have implemented a trick as a reminder of our dinner table rule.

One of the Atlanta Taste of the Trucks sponsors was LevelUP, a mobile payment app that uses QR Codes as a mobile wallet. Users can quickly pay for goods/services and add a tip without ever pulling out a credit card. Many of the food trucks at the festival was using LevelUp, so since I love QR Codes, and food, I took Lil' Tech down to the event to test it out.

After a little hiatus, I'm back on the reservation as an Outright accounting user. I just learned that Outright updated its iPhone app with the ability add/edit transactions, and I just felt the needed to share...