Bill Pirtle

William (Bill) Pirtle has been in the field of credit card processing since 2004.With 10 years prior experience in retail management, he is an expert in loss prevention and training. In his business, Merchant Processing Consulting & Training LLC, Bill coached business owners on credit card processing procedures, security compliance, and other good business practices. Bill was a Regional Sales Manager for MainStream Merchant Services until 2016 where he hired and trained credit card processing agents and helped business owners accept credit cards. He joined Clearent in July of 2018 as a District Manager in the Detroit/ Ann Arbor market.

Bill is an active participant on the Green Sheet, a credit card industry forum sponsored by Green Sheet magazine. He was interviewed in the Green Sheet Magazine column, "AgenTalk," in the April 13, 2009 issue. From April of 2011 to March of 2012, Bill wrote the Street Smarts column for The Green Sheet.

Bill wrote Navigating Through the Risks of Credit Card Processing to assist business owners selecting a merchant services provider. So many ISOs began using the book to train agents, Bill gathered a team of experts writing in their own niche to produce Credit Card Processing for Sales Agents and its Study Guide with the specific purpose of giving companies a method of training and agents a method of learning the industry.

In 2017, he wrote a novel called Haitian Redemption (released in November of 2018). Although listed as a Romance, it has drama and discusses social issues.

Coming in January, 2019 Bill and his company, Bill Pirtle Publishing LLC., are launching a website for business owners to find information to answer their business questions.

Bill has a B.A. in Multi-disciplinary Social Science (economics, history, and political science) from Michigan State University. You can contact Bill by email: billpirtle@gmail.com.