CardFlight Blog

Enhancing SwipeSimple: Understanding the Rigor Behind Simplicity

Our commitment to simplicity guides product evolution, which builds confidence in our partner sales and support teams as they champion SwipeSimple.

Top Expert Tips on Diffusing an Angry Customer

Often these customers want an immediate solution and wish to spend as little time as possible on the phone with you troubleshooting the problem. This only makes your job harder, so what can you do?

CardFlight Company Timeline: 2024

See how we've grown from a simple idea into powerful software that helps small business owners run their business.

A conversation with Jason Fishman

Jason Fishman is a 2024 ETA Forty under 40 honoree. Read excerpts of his recent conversation with Natalia Leonardis of the CardFlight Partnership team.

2023: Growth, momentum, and partnership

50,000 new merchants. Over $10 billion in payment volume. One quick recap.

A conversation with Brian Butts

Brian Butts joined CardFlight in May 2023. Read excerpts of his recent conversation with Natalia Leonardis of the CardFlight Partnership team.

Holiday Selling with SwipeSimple: SwipeSimple Partners can give merchants the edge

SwipeSimple offers valued features that can help small businesses.

CardFlight by the numbers 2021

See how CardFlight grew last year.

Podcast appearence: Leaders in Payments

Listen to the episode featuring CardFlight founder and CEO, Derek Webster.

CardFlight by the numbers 2020

What we learned while growing SwipeSimple by 20,000 merchants in a pandemic — plus our predictions for 2021.

How small businesses are adapting to the new low-contact reality 

Five ways small businesses are adapting to changing business environments with contact-free payment technology.

The inside story: How CardFlight grew from 0 to 65,000 small-business customers in all 50 US states in 6 years

CardFlight CEO shares the story behind the company before CardFlight for the first time.

10 predictions for the post-COVID world of small businesses

How will the social distancing guidelines required by the response to coronavirus/COVID-19 affect small businesses in the long term?

CardFlight Small Business Impact Report

This report provides insights into the impacts of COVID-19 on small businesses across the United States.

CardFlight Conference 2020: Key takeaways from Visa, Uber & more

Key takeaways from the third annual CardFlight Conference.

CardFlight by the numbers 2019

CardFlight closed out the decade with a lot of growth, coffee, and team gatherings.

The future of fintech: Key takeaways from Money20/20 2019

Last week, a handful of CardFlight team members and I were in Las Vegas, meeting with customers around our industry’s over-the-top event, Money20/20. 

The future of payments isn’t payments… and more key insights from CardFlight Conference 2019

This week, CardFlight hosted nearly 100 payments industry professionals from CDE, Chase, ETA, First Citizens Bank, Google, Merchant E-Solutions, Payroc, Paysafe, Payscape, Talus Pay, Visa, Worldpay, and many others. We convened in New York City for a day full of insights, predictions, tactical tips, great conversations, and really good food.

Team CardFlight kicks off 2019 with a renewed commitment to industry leadership

Here at CardFlight, we’re dedicated to giving back to our community. Our engineers are encouraged to spend 10% of their time contributing to open source projects and the team has occasional volunteer days.

CardFlight by the numbers: 2018 in review

Like every year at CardFlight so far, 2018 was a year filled with new products, deals, learnings, and growth.

How CardFlight celebrated 30x growth in 3 years

In August 2018, we announced that we made the Inc. 5000 list, the magazine’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. We made our debut on the Inc. 5000 list as one of the top five companies in the financial services sector.

CardFlight Ranked No. 139 on the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies!

This week, Inc. Magazine announced the 2018 Inc. 5000, a list of the 5000 fastest growing private companies in America, and CardFlight made it to the 139th place on the list!

CardFlight Customer Conference 2018: What Was Our First Conference Like?

On May 8-9, 2018 we held the inaugural CardFlight Customer Conference in New York. In case you missed it, here’s a summary of everything we had lined up for our attendees over the two-day event.

CardFlight gives back

Giving back to our community has always been something that’s important to us and an integral part of CardFlight’s culture. We were very privileged and really glad to have had the opportunity to help make sandwiches for our friends at the Bowery Mission.

Mobile payments hackathon: A huge success!

On Saturday October 19, CardFlight and Stripe threw a full-day Mobile Payments Hackathon at the Alley NYC. The goal of the Hackathon was to encourage the development of mobile payments technology and provide developers with the tools and inspiration they need to build awesome products that improve the payments industry.