entrepreneur on fire episode 131 welcome to entrepreneur on fire dot com where remarkable entrepreneurs share their inspiring story let their journey illuminate your path to success and now

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okay let's get started I am simply delighted to introduce my guest today bell clerica bell are you prepared to ignite

John I fired up to ignite haha love it bell bell is a former software engineer turned investment baker turned entrepreneur he is the CEO

in co founder of we pay which aims to be the easiest way for small businesses to accept payments online I've given fire nation a little overview bell but why

did you take a minute tell us about yourself we want to get to know you personally and then tell us about your business sure

well first just thanks so much for having me John we're just we're big fans your podcast over here and I'm just really excited to be on here

so tell you a little bit of we pay we try to make it really simple for you know tiny small businesses and growing businesses to get up and running quickly online

accepting payments and we do that today through really simple free invoicing through payment buttons for company websites and for virtual terminal which basically

a lot of credit cards instantly by just typing a card number into into a web browser and so we're really trying to just make it

dramatically simple for small businesses to accept payments through the internet

we're very strong and service based businesses so you know people like SEO consultants marketing consultants

freelancers graphic artists folks like that trying to make it as simple as possible for them to get paid by their customers

now I know a question that's going to be on the mind of every fire nation listener and it's on my mind too

because I know there are differences but I would love for you to take a couple minutes differentiate

yourself from PayPal why would somebody go with we pay as opposed to PayPal sure so I think if you talk to PayPal merchants

you know you hear a laundry list of complaints and I know that because I was one of those PayPal merchants back in the day

I was tutoring folks to try to help pay rent and you know I would run into a lot of the issues that a lot of our customers

come to us you know saying about PayPal and a lot of it relates to how complex the setup process is at PayPal

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