Southern California · Los Angeles
Card processing and POS for Los Angeles County businesses, from food trucks to law firms. Month-to-month, next-day funding, and a Free Rate Analysis of what you pay now.
New business? No statements needed. Fill in the form and we'll set you up from scratch.
Prefer to talk? Call 949-946-2442 or text us
Tell us a little about your business and we'll follow up. No statements needed to start.
ClearCost Payments is based next door in Aliso Viejo, Orange County. We work with Los Angeles County businesses by phone, text, and email. No office visit needed. Further south? See merchant services in San Diego.
Los Angeles County has about 9.69 million residents and 304,988 businesses with employees. (Population 2025, businesses 2023; industry figures are 2022 metro data)
Health care and social assistance employs more small-business workers in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim metro than any other industry: 398,240 people.
Healthcare payments →
Professional, scientific, and technical services is the most common type of small business in the metro, with 290,405 firms.
Professional services payments →
Los Angeles County has 1,165,040 businesses with no employees (2024), nearly four for every business with staff.
SwipeSimple for small and mobile businesses →
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts, Los Angeles County · SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025 West metro profiles
FigurePOS or Clover for tickets, tables, and online orders. Clover Go or a PAX A920 Pro for the truck window. See restaurant payments →
Clover or Material, whichever fits your store. Material syncs with Shopify and QuickBooks. See retail payments →
Card-on-file for no-shows, deposits at booking, and tips at checkout. Our setup works alongside Cojilio for booking. See salon payments →
Text-to-pay before pickup, plus WEX and Voyager fleet cards. Our setup works alongside Tekmetric, Mitchell 1, and Shopmonkey. See auto repair payments →
Retainers, invoices, and a virtual terminal. Our setup works alongside Clio. See law firm payments →
Monthly dues on card-on-file, with expired cards updated. See membership payments →
Month-to-month with no cancellation fee, next-day funding, free equipment if you qualify, and processor and POS support 24/7, except most federal holidays. Day-to-day questions come straight to us at 949-946-2442, Mon–Fri 7am–7pm Pacific. See pricing →
Los Angeles County runs on food trucks, busy kitchens, independent retail, and service businesses spread from the Westside to the San Gabriel Valley. We set up each account around how the business actually sells, and we handle everything by phone, text, and email.
Tap to Pay on iPhone or a handheld at the window, with next-day funding on your sales.
In-store and online stock in one place, with Material POS synced to Shopify.
Invoices, retainers, and a virtual terminal, with ACH for large payments.
Downtown, Koreatown, Hollywood, and the neighborhoods around them are packed with restaurants, bars, shops, and wholesale businesses. Compact countertop devices, handhelds for the table, and fast tap payments keep busy counters moving.
Santa Monica, Torrance, and the beach cities have restaurants, boutiques, fitness studios, and med spas. Card on file, booking software that connects, and checkout with tips fit how these businesses run.
Burbank, Glendale, and Santa Clarita have restaurants, auto shops, contractors, and professional offices. Countertop terminals can run next to your existing software, and payment links handle customers who pay later.
Long Beach, Pasadena, Pomona, and West Covina have restaurants, markets, food trucks, and family-run shops. A POS with inventory for stores and Tap to Pay on iPhone for trucks and events cover most setups.
A line at the window and no time to wait on a reader.
Setup: SwipeSimple with Tap to Pay on iPhone, or a PAX A920 Pro handheld at the window.
A shop floor and an online store that need to match.
Setup: Material POS synced to Shopify, on one merchant account.
Retainers and invoices, with clients who pay remotely.
Setup: Hyfin invoices and a virtual terminal, with ACH for large payments.
Repair tickets, plus customers who pay after pickup.
Setup: Clover at the service desk, with text-to-pay through the PayBright Gateway.
These are examples, not specific clients. Your setup is based on how your business runs and what you process.
No. ClearCost Payments is based in Aliso Viejo, Orange County. Los Angeles County businesses work with us by phone, text, or email.
Yes. Clover Go or SwipeSimple pairs with your phone, and a PAX A920 Pro handheld works at the window.
Yes. No statements needed. Tell us about the menu and how you serve, and we'll recommend FigurePOS or Clover.
Yes, on many systems. FigurePOS brings Grubhub, DoorDash, Seamless, and Uber Eats orders into the POS.
Yes. From Santa Clarita to Long Beach and from Santa Monica to Pomona, we work with businesses by phone, text, and email.
Yes. Clover takes tips at checkout. Stylists and barbers who rent their own chair can also take payments and tips on their own phone with SwipeSimple.
Opening a new business in Los Angeles? Start here and we'll set you up from scratch.
Attach your last 2 months of statements if you have them. If not, send your details and we'll follow up.
No statements needed. Tell us about the business and we'll recommend the POS and payment setup that fits, then follow up to go over it.