--- title: "After the thrill is gone: Your business data should be yours for the taking" description: Front Desk believes in transparency and no-fee data transfers. Many of our competitors, including MindBody, do not. image: https://learn.pike13.com/hs-fs/file-3752588061-jpg/blog-files/3859852351_d65f71267b.jpg --- 2 min read # After the thrill is gone: Your business data should be yours for the taking [![Picture of Jon Zimmerman](https://learn.pike13.com/hubfs/pike13_logo-144-1aed399311d06d9456a07f2601db554b.png) Jon Zimmerman ](https://learn.pike13.com/blog/author/jon-zimmerman) : Updated on July 5, 2017 [Business Advisor](https://learn.pike13.com/blog/topic/business-advisor) [Pike13 Pro Tips](https://learn.pike13.com/blog/topic/pike13-pro-tips) ![After the thrill is gone: Your business data should be yours for the taking](https://learn.pike13.com/hs-fs/file-3752588061-jpg/blog-files/3859852351_d65f71267b.jpg) ![3859852351_d65f71267b](https://learn.pike13.com/hs-fs/file-3752588061-jpg/blog-files/3859852351_d65f71267b.jpg?width=277&name=3859852351_d65f71267b.jpg) *Last thing I remember,* * I was running for the door.* * I had to find the passage back* * To the place I was before.* * "Relax," said the nightman,* * "We are programmed to receive.* * You can check out any time you like,* * But you can never leave!"* * —*The Eagles,“Hotel California” In a [recent blog post](http://blog.tulasoftware.com/posts/2015/3/17/how-mindbody-is-holding-their-customers-hostage), Andrew Wicklander from Tula Software raised the issue of credit card portability. If you’re unfamiliar with this concept, it simply means that business owners have the right, at a reasonable cost, to safely and securely migrate their clients’ credit cards from one merchant processor to another. Without card portability, personal-services businesses that have recurring billing relationships with their clients can quickly discover that they’ve inadvertently checked into the Hotel California. Pike13 strongly supports card portability—and transparency, more broadly. Like Andrew, I’ve been frustrated by some of the business practices we’ve seen from other providers of client management software, ranging from companies charging exorbitant fees for porting cards to others who flat-out refuse to release credit card data at all. We’re fed up with the lack of transparency about data ownership and fees across our industry. At Pike13 we made the decision to take the concept of card portability a step further and enable choice when it comes to picking a merchant processing partner. We’ve established connections with over 500 merchant processors and work hard to ensure that our clients are partnering with a merchant processor of their choice (not ours). We also have strong convictions about the broader issues of data ownership, transparency, and choice: - **We consider your data yours.** We make your critical data exportable, including names, email, phone, address, and all other custom field data in a single report. This data is available to you whenever you want it, even if you choose to end your relationship with us. As long as we can ensure that credit card info is moved securely from our [PCI-compliant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Security_Standard) provider to another, we will assist with safely and securely porting your clients’ card information. - **We’re transparent about costs.** Pike13 has worked with all of our processing partners to ensure that they’re not profiting from porting cards. The reality is that there are indeed costs involved with securely handling credit card data. Our commitment is that merchant processors partnering with Pike13 will not take advantage of our clients’ need for secure data handling but provide that service at a reasonable cost. Like the businesses using Pike13, our success depends on long-lasting relationships with our customers. At Pike13 we’ve come up with a very simple guiding principle to help ensure that we are building long-term relationships. 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