The initial idea for TransFS was mine (Sean) based on my frustration in shopping for credit card processing for another business that I owned.
To deal with my frustration, my first step was not initially to start TransFS. First I learned as much as I could about credit card processing, so I could get a good deal for my own business. Next, I launched a blog to help other business owners solve the same problem, called Informed-Merchant.com. It was 2006, everyone was starting blogs! 
Several years later, after getting my first business to a stable position, studying business financial services in more detail, writing more blog posts on informed-merchant.com and meeting my co-founders Josh and Eric at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, I launched TransFS.
After starting TransFS, I left the content up at Informed-Merchant.com, but recently it became too difficult to keep that content up to date and keep up with the content on TransFS.com, so I moved all the content here, to the TransFS blog, so that it can remain a useful resource for business owners in the future. More than 50,000 people have used this content over the past few years, a number that I hope will grow over time.
All of the informed-merchant.com articles are available in the Informed Merchant category. Direct links to the some of the most popular articles are here:
- Interchange Plus
- What is Interchange
- Largest Merchant Acquirers
- Reading a Merchant Statement
- Signature Debit vs. PIN debit
- Reading an Interchange Plus Merchant Statement
- Payment Gateways
- Largest ISOs
- Merchant Account Costs
- Getting a Good Deal on your Merchant Account
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