Everyware, a leading payments, billing and customer engagement platform company, has been named in Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2023 issue, which releases on May 16, 2023, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or a virtual facility.
The recognition comes on the heels of the company being named a 'Best Places to Work' winner for the second year in a row by Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work Awards. Everyware earned a ranking on the 100 Best Places to Work in Austin and also won in the Austin Best Startups to Work For awards.
After collecting data from thousands of submissions, Inc. selected 591 honorees this year. Each company that was nominated took part in an employee survey, conducted by Quantum Workplace, which included topics such as management effectiveness, perks, fostering employee growth, and overall company culture. The organization's benefits were also audited to determine overall score and ranking.
"We strive to embrace an effective and positive work culture that promotes growth and inspires thought leadership. The team succeeds together and making the Inc. list this year is a testament to that," said Everyware Founder and CEO Larry Talley. "We look forward to continuing to make Everyware one of the best places to work!"
Everyware continues to hire and attract talent, getting the attention of leading executives thanks to its company culture. To view and apply for current career opportunities at Everyware, visit everyware.applytojob.com/apply.
"Being named to Best Workplaces is an honor that only a small fraction of companies have been able to claim," says Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk. "Proving to the world that you're a magnet for talent and have a culture that keeps teams engaged, productive, and proud to come to work is a truly remarkable achievement."
To learn more about Everyware, visit Everyware.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
ABOUT EVERYWARE Everyware is a leading customer engagement, billing, and payments company based in Austin, Texas. Launched in 2015, the company provides services to more than 9,000 merchants across multiple verticals including healthcare, travel, utilities, not-for-profit, and automotive. The platform provides a simple, fast, and secure way to move money while enhancing the ability for merchants to communicate with their customers in real-time with text messaging. It saves them money by improving cash flow and reducing paper billing costs, chargebacks, and fraud. Additionally, Everyware works alongside existing systems for easy integration. For more information, visit Everyware.com.
ABOUT INC. MEDIA The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
ABOUT QUANTUM WORKPLACE Quantum Workplace, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is an HR technology company that serves organizations through employee-engagement surveys, action-planning tools, exit surveys, peer-to-peer recognition, performance evaluations, goal tracking, and leadership assessment. For more information, visit QuantumWorkplace.com.
MEDIA CONTACTS FOR EVERYWARE: Jessica Wade Pfeffer | 305-804-8424 | jessica@jwipr.com Tyler Sminkey | 786-390-8510 | tyler@jwipr.com
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Everyware, a leading payments, billing and customer engagement platform company, has been named in Inc. magazine's annual Best Workplaces list. Featured in the May/June 2023 issue, which releases on May 16, 2023, and prominently featured on Inc.com, the list is the result of a comprehensive measurement of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company culture, whether operating in a physical or a virtual facility.
The recognition comes on the heels of the company being named a 'Best Places to Work' winner for the second year in a row by Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work Awards. Everyware earned a ranking on the 100 Best Places to Work in Austin and also won in the Austin Best Startups to Work For awards.
After collecting data from thousands of submissions, Inc. selected 591 honorees this year. Each company that was nominated took part in an employee survey, conducted by Quantum Workplace, which included topics such as management effectiveness, perks, fostering employee growth, and overall company culture. The organization's benefits were also audited to determine overall score and ranking.
"We strive to embrace an effective and positive work culture that promotes growth and inspires thought leadership. The team succeeds together and making the Inc. list this year is a testament to that," said Everyware Founder and CEO Larry Talley. "We look forward to continuing to make Everyware one of the best places to work!"
Everyware continues to hire and attract talent, getting the attention of leading executives thanks to its company culture. To view and apply for current career opportunities at Everyware, visit everyware.applytojob.com/apply.
"Being named to Best Workplaces is an honor that only a small fraction of companies have been able to claim," says Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk. "Proving to the world that you're a magnet for talent and have a culture that keeps teams engaged, productive, and proud to come to work is a truly remarkable achievement."
To learn more about Everyware, visit Everyware.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
ABOUT EVERYWARE Everyware is a leading customer engagement, billing, and payments company based in Austin, Texas. Launched in 2015, the company provides services to more than 9,000 merchants across multiple verticals including healthcare, travel, utilities, not-for-profit, and automotive. The platform provides a simple, fast, and secure way to move money while enhancing the ability for merchants to communicate with their customers in real-time with text messaging. It saves them money by improving cash flow and reducing paper billing costs, chargebacks, and fraud. Additionally, Everyware works alongside existing systems for easy integration. For more information, visit Everyware.com.
ABOUT INC. MEDIA The world's most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
ABOUT QUANTUM WORKPLACE Quantum Workplace, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is an HR technology company that serves organizations through employee-engagement surveys, action-planning tools, exit surveys, peer-to-peer recognition, performance evaluations, goal tracking, and leadership assessment. For more information, visit QuantumWorkplace.com.
MEDIA CONTACTS FOR EVERYWARE: Jessica Wade Pfeffer | 305-804-8424 | jessica@jwipr.com Tyler Sminkey | 786-390-8510 | tyler@jwipr.com
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Everyware, a leading consumer engagement and payments company, announces it was named a 'Best Places to Work' winner for the second year in a row by Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work Awards. Everyware earned a ranking on the 100 Best Places to Work in Austin and also won in the Austin Best Startups to Work For awards. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, and honors remote-first employers and companies in large tech markets across the U.S. This is the second year that Everyware won in two categories for the Built In Awards.
"This recognition is a testament to our entire team – we all succeed together, and this acknowledgement showcases our team's dedication to an effective work environment that drives a positive work culture," said Everyware Founder and CEO Larry Talley. "It's an honor to be recognized on Built In's list again, and we will continue to make Everyware one of the best places to work in Austin and beyond."
Built In determines the winners of Best Places to Work based on an algorithm, using company data about compensation and benefits. To reflect the benefits candidates are searching for more frequently on Built In, the program also weighs criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI, and other people-first cultural offerings.
"It's my honor to congratulate this year's Best Places to Work winners," says Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer, Built In. "These exemplary companies understand their people are their most valuable asset, and they've stepped up to meet the modern professional's new expectations, including the desire to work for companies that deliver purpose, growth and inclusion. These winners set the stage for a human-centered future of work, and we can't wait to see that future unfold."
Everyware continues to hire and attract talent in the local Austin market, getting the attention of top talent thanks to its company culture. To view and apply for current career opportunities at Everyware, visit everyware.applytojob.com/apply.
For more information, visit Everyware at Everyware.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
ABOUT EVERYWARE Everyware is a leading customer engagement, billing, and payments company based in Austin, Texas. Launched in 2015, the company provides services to more than 2,000 merchants across multiple verticals including healthcare, travel, utilities, not-for-profit, and automotive. The platform provides a simple, fast, and secure way to move money while enhancing the ability for merchants to communicate with their customers in real-time with text messaging. It saves them money by improving cash flow and reducing paper billing costs, chargebacks, and fraud. Additionally, Everyware works alongside existing systems for easy integration. For more information, visit Everyware.com.
ABOUT BUILT IN Built In is creating the largest platform for technology professionals globally. Monthly, millions of the industry's most in-demand professionals visit the site from across the world. They rely on our platform to stay ahead of tech trends and news, learn skills to accelerate their careers and find opportunities at companies whose values they share. Built In also serves 2,000 customers, innovative companies ranging from startups to those in the Fortune 500. By putting their stories in front of our uniquely engaged audience, we help them hire otherwise hard-to-reach tech professionals. www.builtin.com
ABOUT BUILT IN'S BEST PLACES TO WORK Built In's esteemed Best Places to Work Awards, now in its fifth year, honor companies across numerous categories: 100 Best Places to Work, 50 Best Startup Places to Work, 100 Best Midsize Places to Work, 100 Best Large Places to Work and Editor's Choice: 100 Best Hybrid Places to Work. The program honors companies – remote, hybrid and in-office – with the best total rewards packages across the U.S. and in the following tech hubs: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington DC.
MEDIA CONTACTS FOR EVERYWARE: Jessica Wade Pfeffer | 305-804-8424 | jessica@jwipr.com Tyler Sminkey | 786-390-8510 | tyler@jwipr.com
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Everyware, a leading consumer engagement and payments company, announces it was named a ‘Best Places to Work’ winner for the second year in a row by Built In‘s 2023 Best Places to Work Awards. Everyware earned a ranking on the 100 Best Places to Work in Austin and also won in the Austin Best Startups to Work For awards. The annual awards program includes companies of all sizes, from startups to those in the enterprise, and honors remote-first employers and companies in large tech markets across the U.S. This is the second year that Everyware won in two categories for the Built In Awards.
“This recognition is a testament to our entire team – we all succeed together, and this acknowledgement showcases our team’s dedication to an effective work environment that drives a positive work culture,” said Everyware Founder and CEO Larry Talley. “It’s an honor to be recognized on Built In’s list again, and we will continue to make Everyware one of the best places to work in Austin and beyond.”
Built In determines the winners of Best Places to Work based on an algorithm, using company data about compensation and benefits. To reflect the benefits candidates are searching for more frequently on Built In, the program also weighs criteria like remote and flexible work opportunities, programs for DEI, and other people-first cultural offerings.
“It’s my honor to congratulate this year’s Best Places to Work winners,” says Sheridan Orr, Chief Marketing Officer, Built In. “These exemplary companies understand their people are their most valuable asset, and they’ve stepped up to meet the modern professional’s new expectations, including the desire to work for companies that deliver purpose, growth and inclusion. These winners set the stage for a human-centered future of work, and we can’t wait to see that future unfold.”
Everyware continues to hire and attract talent in the local Austin market, getting the attention of top talent thanks to its company culture. To view and apply for current career opportunities at Everyware, visit everyware.applytojob.com/apply.
For more information, visit Everyware at Everyware.com or follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
As technology advances, new forms of payment emerge, and one of the most popular is a Hosted Payment Page (HPP). It’s a third-party webpage where all transactions are completely secure. A HPP features automated billing and payment tracking. From a customer’s perspective, transactions take place within seconds making it the quickest, easiest way for businesses to accept online payments.
Eliminate POS Systems
A hosted payment page is a secure platform that allows you to eliminate the need for costly and complicated point-of-sale systems. Choosing an HPP is more convenient for customers, and with advanced features such as automated billing and payment tracking, business owners are managing their payments and expenses much easier.
Popularity
The use of HPPs is global, due in large part to the secure nature of the process and because it works extremely well for both large and small businesses.
Payment solutions can have intuitive portals that allow users to create and customize unlimited HPPs. This process allows easy passage of customer and billing data from a user to the PCI-secure Hosted Payment Widget, making it seamless for customers to view and pay with ease and security. Some popular hosted payment tech providers include Braintree by PayPal, WePay by Chase, and Opayo by Elavon.
Summary of Benefits
Aside from security and overhead cost savings, many gateways offer the latest built-in payment innovations to satisfy customers. These include:
- Multiple payment options: Customers don’t have the worry about Visa or Amex not being accepted. With a HPP, you can take all major card brands, digital wallets, ACH/bank transfers, and cryptocurrency.
- Advanced security: Customers are secure in knowing identity verification codes, biometric authentication, and more keeps them protected.
- BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later): Customers can take advantage of payment flexibility using BNPL. It divides purchases into multiple equal payments, with the first due at checkout. The remaining payments are billed until the purchase is paid in full. Some gateways offer a “pay later” option along with the hosted pay form.
- Tokenized Payment Methods: Customers can use subscription plans and the option to store payment information for future purchases. Network tokens make one-click checkout possible by re-purposing tokens across merchants in an online payment network.
- Hosted Checkouts: Fast, simple transactions are only a few clicks away because with payment pages, technology providers can collect online order and customer account details, as well as shipping and payment information.
Large Scale vs. Startup
Large-scale businesses may find the fee structures of hosted payment gateway providers expensive. However, these payment gateways are easy to use and include all the hardware and software necessary. Generally, hosted payment gateways are most suitable for individuals, small businesses, and startups. They’re less expensive to run for smaller-scale companies since they don’t require an individual to have a merchant account. A hosted payment gateway works by using the merchant's existing website and connecting it to the banking system.
We live in a rapidly evolving landscape and alternative payment methods are on the rise, from mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies—and these alternatives are gaining popularity worldwide. Now is the time to set up your business for financial success through HPPs.
The link between businesses and consumers is based on simple logic. The easier the payment experience, the faster a business gets paid. In a fast-paced work environment, a merchant’s ability to adapt to the ever-changing needs of consumers’ payment preferences is vital.
Today, ecommerce, mobile, and contactless payment solutions are more in-demand than ever before. However, one consumer’s preferred payment method may not appeal to the next. Therefore, businesses need to identify the payment preferences of all their customers and design effective payment solutions to meet their needs. It is best to give your customers multiple ways to make a payment.
Before deciding the payment options best for a business, remember that not all solutions are created equal. Here are some things to consider when expanding payment methods:
1. Mobile Payments
Mobile payments allow a person to conduct business anytime and make for a better customer experience. By combining mobile payments with text messaging, which more businesses are doing than ever, merchants can interact with customers. This promotes a greater sense of trust, added customer loyalty, customer retention, and repeat purchases.
2. Recurring Payments
If your business collects membership fees, subscription fees, or offers special pricing to loyalty program enrollees, you will want to find a payment solution that supports recurring billing. Recurring payment plans make collecting fees fast, increase revenue, and make a business stand out from competitors that haven’t caught up to the Card on File momentum.
3. Explore New Options – Pay By Text
Using a solution like Pay By Text makes purchasing easier and more secure than ever before. The Pay By Text solution, paired with the two-way messaging functionality, would enable any business to send invoices and accept payments through the most convenient modern communication medium: the mobile number. A robust payment engagement platform will allow businesses to send personalized, auto-scheduled text message reminders for amounts due and allow consumers to automatically renew subscriptions by text. These modern conveniences optimize revenue streams by making payments easier and businesses more accessible to customers.
4. Card Processing: Payment Providers vs. Payment Aggregators
Well-known payment aggregators like PayPal, Stripe, or Square can be attractive to businesses that rely on instant onboarding with minimal documentation. The downside of processing through a big aggregator is that an account can be shut down for minor missteps that each aggregator defines with little or no notice to the business.
Payment service providers are not free of restrictions but tend to be much more lenient than big aggregators. Many can offer extremely fast onboarding, much lower processing fees, more flexible integration options, multiple payment methods and innovative payment technology that the bigger companies have not yet implemented.
5. What to Look for in a Payment Provider
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution for all businesses. Your choice of payment provider should directly relate to the business needs and processing volume. Three crucial questions to ask are:
- How many transactions are actively processed each month?
- How many transactions do you want to process each month? (Goal)
- How important are certain features compared to others, such as ease of integration, invoicing options, security, etc.?
- What Works for Your Business Model and Its Customers?
- What works for one business may not be a fit for another. Consider things like transaction volumes, speed, and revenue potential. It all boils down to having the proper combination of technology that gives customers the payment method options they want while suiting your business model at the same time.
Bottom line, businesses should seek a payments option that offers the best processing rates, chargeback protection, and faster market entry that is also diversified for every kind of customer.
Many small businesses face a dangerous financing gap that payment companies hope to fill with short-term credit products similar to those that have grown in popularity with consumers during a challenging economic environment.
"The issue can be as simple as 'I have T-shirts that I sold from my factory, but I'm not going to get paid for another 90 days. But I have to keep the lights on,'" said Alex Song, head of finance and capital markets for Ramp, a firm that integrates corporate cards with software to manage nonpayroll spending.
Ramp expanded its platform in late August to allow businesses to manage vendor payments through short-term credit. Ramp joins other fintechs such as Resolve in selling services to small-businesses clients that are facing uncertain cash flow due to inflation and supply-chain crunches. These products are designed to work through existing payment relationships to prevent businesses from turning to banks for credit.
"If you're selling furniture to consumers and office buildings and have a manufacturer waiting to get paid, you're facing a potential gap," said Chris Tsai, CEO of Resolve, a payment company that manages credit checks, enrollment, invoicing and reconciliation for B2B transactions.
Ramp's Alex Song says BNPL-style short-term credit can help address supply chain shortages for small businesses.
Ramp's new product, called Flex, integrates with accounting software and is designed to fund operating expenses while a business waits for pending payments to pay off the loan. Ramp pays the business' vendors up front, and the business chooses to pay Ramp in 30, 60 or 90 days for a fee that's based on the length of the transaction — the shorter the terms the lower the fee —with the business' incoming payments going toward paying off the loan. Flex is part of Ramp's Bill Pay invoicing product, with Flex appearing as a financing option. Ramp is competing with banks and other payment companies that provide credit.
Several payment companies offer short-term credit to small businesses based on future payment flows — Block and PayPal are two of the largest. But there is still room in the small-business market for more options, according to Song. "If you're an American small business, there are very few people to help you," he said.
Ramp's offering is similar to buy now/pay later, which allows consumers to finance the purchase of a product they can't afford to pay for in full at the point of sale. Only in this case, the concept is being applied to address small business' inventory expense, client payments and the negative impact on liquidity.
"There are a lot of lenders that will issue a five-year or a 10-year loan, but that may not cover all short-term expenses," Song said. "And it's hard for businesses to get that kind of credit from a bank."
A reduction in business spending is already underway, and that will create more liquidity stress, Song argues, citing Ramp's analysis of anonymized payments on the corporate cards that it manages for clients.
The average spend per business fell 6% from May to June 2022, compared with a 17% increase between May and June 2021, according to Ramp, which did not disclose the exact volume amounts. Venture capital-backed startups reduced spending 9% in 2022, after increasing spending 25% in 2021. Spending on supplies also decreased, according to Ramp's data. Spending on electronic equipment fell 41%, while software purchases fell 6%.
Other data also points to stress on business payments, particularly for buying and selling supplies and the impact of those costs on operations.
U.S. business logistics expenses in 2021 were $1.85 trillion, or 8% of gross domestic product, the highest share of U.S. GDP since 2008, according to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual report on the "State of Logistics," which was released in June. Inventory carrying costs, or the value of the goods in stock compared to the cost to store those goods, was 26% higher in 2021 over 2020, the CSCMP reported, adding this data creates longer lead times for orders, and inventory that is often not matched to demand.
Resolve, which provides payment technology and business credit, is preparing its company for an uptick in BNPL lending to small businesses — and more competition as European-focused firms target the U.S. Resolve was spun off the consumer payment processor and consumer BNPL lender Affirm in 2019.
"That use case of paying a manufacturer is a perfect example of where to flex BNPL muscle," Tsai said.
For businesses, BNPL can reduce the pressure on cash flow that results from delays in the supply chain, Tsai said.
Some of the same risks for consumer BNPL apply to business BNPL, said Larry Talley, founder and CEO of Everyware, a firm that develops software for text payments and other digital channels.
"A lot of these businesses may have used up credit and are looking for a solution to stock up on inventory," Talley said. "The problem is if they aren't selling that inventory the install fees and turn into late fees."
BNPL for consumers or business is also still not heavily regulated, Talley said. "It's sort of like the Wild West."
While consumer BNPL is gaining attention from regulators over consents about mounting debt, business B2B's terms are shorter — as little as one month as opposed to four or more monthly installments — and thus less prone to credit risk, Tsai contends.
"There is a pressure on buyers who are getting slower payments," Tsai said. "Everyone is trying to manage the sales payments that are outstanding, to gain control over the cash curve."
