Your card fees deserve a second look.

The story

A three-location veterinary practice in the Cedar Rapids area let me look at their statements.

At each location, I found savings of about $100 to about $430 a month — roughly 9% off what they were paying.

Nobody had walked them through those statements, line by line. Their processor never volunteered. That's usually how it goes — the longer a clinic stays with one processor, the more the fees creep, and nobody ever takes a fresh look.

I'm not a 1-800 number.

I'm Karl Kinch, and I'm based in Cedar Rapids. Clinics work with me because I'm a local person — I'm your main contact, and you get my cell phone number: 319-270-9337.

That's true whether your clinic is across town or 60 miles out. I work in Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Robins, Fairfax, Mount Vernon, Vinton, Belle Plaine, Anamosa, Manchester, Independence, Dyersville, Williamsburg, Washington, Tiffin, North Liberty, Coralville, Iowa City, Waterloo, and Cedar Falls.

Here's how support works with me: if something goes wrong with the system, your first call is tech support — I only work with processors whose support answers 24/7, and I set that up with you from day one. If support can't get you an answer, you call me on my personal cell — you'll always have it — and I stay on it until it's handled.

Who this is for

• Independent veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
• Cat-only clinics
• Specialty and referral clinics
• Clinics that keep cards on file for care plans, deposits, and recurring payments

Especially if you've been with the same processor for years and nobody has ever walked you through your statement, line by line.

A straight word about your software

If you run AVImark, Pulse, Cornerstone, Neo, ezyVet, or DaySmart Vet, your software has its own integrated payment service — and I won't promise you can keep that integration and change processors. For some clinics you can't, and I'd rather tell you that up front.

What I can always do is read your statement and show you, in plain dollars, what the current setup is costing you. Then you decide, with real numbers, whether a change is worth it — now, or when you're ready to change software.

How it works

1. Send me your statement. Use the form on this site — it takes a minute.
2. I run the numbers. Free, within 2 business days.
3. I show you what I find. If there's real money to save, I'll show you exactly where it is. If the numbers aren't there, I'll tell you that too, and you've lost nothing.

Free: check the Google profile your clients find first

When a pet owner searches for a vet, your Google profile is what they see — the stars, the photos, whether your hours are right. I built a free checkup that reads your profile and tells you plainly what's helping, what's costing you calls, and the first three fixes worth making. One free checkup per clinic. No catch — it's the same look I'd give it if we were sitting together.

From Karl Kinch, SolidCore Payments — Cedar Rapids. The checkup is free; if you want it fixed for you, we have a conversation. You won't be required to pay anything.