Credit Card Surcharges: The Question We’re Still Working to Answer

A FieldHub Update – November 2025

At our Build25 user conference in Baltimore this October, one topic generated plenty of conversation: credit card processing fees and surcharges. Security installers and service providers are understandably looking for ways to offset the 2-3.5% they pay on every card transaction. But as we’ve dug deeper into this issue on behalf of our FieldHub community, we’ve discovered something unexpected: we still don’t have clear answers.

Cybersecurity Insights from FieldHub Build25: What Security Integrators Need to Know

We’re still buzzing from the incredible conversations at FieldHub Build25 in Baltimore. While we spent most of the conference diving deep into platform updates and industry trends, we wanted to do something a little different this year – and it turned out to be one of the most valuable sessions we’ve ever hosted.

We brought together an absolutely stacked panel of cybersecurity experts (their words, but we completely agree): Michael Sussman, who chairs Fenwick’s privacy and cybersecurity practice and was one of the earliest leaders in the field; Laura Galante, former director of the Cyber Threat Integration Center; and Jon Lenzner, former chief of staff to the FBI director. Alexis Serfaty, Director of Geo-Technology at Eurasia Group, moderated what became one of the most engaging and practical security discussions many attendees had ever experienced.

The Sync Problem is (Actually) Worse Than You Think

When Accounting Goes Sideways

Let’s talk about what happens when your field service platform and accounting software decide they’re not on speaking terms anymore. We’ve heard horror stories from the field: double-billing that damages customer relationships, sync failures that require hours of manual data entry, and that sinking feeling when you realize last week’s invoices never made it to your accounting system.