When Josh Brooker opened his home services business in 2003, cash and checks were the primary payment methods he accepted.

Brooker, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based TE Certified, said he couldn’t collect credit cards initially because he couldn’t afford a machine.

“Now it’s fairly easy to take credit cards. It wasn’t back in the day,” Brooker told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Over the decades, as he grew his company from a one-man band to now having more than 500 employees, that share has shifted dramatically. About 50% of his transactions now are from cards, while about 20% come from checks and he doesn’t accept cash anymore.

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