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Type of site | payment |
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| Available in | English |
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| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
FeeFighters is a payment processing platform and comparison shopping website for credit card processors. The site was launched in 2009 [1] and was acquired by Groupon in 2012. [2] FeeFighters has been featured in The New York Times, Entrepreneur (magazine), Inc. (magazine) and TechCrunch, with BusinessWeek profiling it as "One of America's Most Promising Startups." [3] [4] [5] [6]
FeeFighters started out as a comparison shopping site for credit card processors and eventually launched its own payment processing platform, [7] Samurai, to facilitate payment integration for software developers, achieve PCI compliance and reduce credit card processing fees. [8]
FeeFighters raised $1.6 million in funding from investors including 500 Startups, Hyde Park Angels, OCA Ventures and Sandbox Industries. [9]
In 2011, FeeFighters wrote a negative blog article claiming that a company bumped its rating from an "F" to an "A" by paying the Better Business Bureau. [10] The controversy was covered by The Today Show. [11] As a result, the BBB pulled the company's accreditation. [12] The BBB later admitted the pay-for-ratings incident. [13]
In 2012, FeeFighters was acquired by Groupon. The company became part of Groupon's Merchant Operating System strategy which was designed to provide payment processing and online scheduling. [14]
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