Lesson 1: If someone want to sell you something and doesn't want make the bookkeeping itself, avoid them.
Lesson 2: In doubt? Cash only.
Lesson 1: If someone want to sell you something and doesn't want make the bookkeeping itself, avoid them.
Lesson 2: In doubt? Cash only.
For small businesses using a payment processor removes a massive barrier to market entry. Many small business hire real world external accountants to do their bookkeeping, so "avoiding actual work", would you avoid them as well? I do some work with the accounting & invoicing teams in our corporation and there is a LOT to take into account that would cripple a startup with only a handful of employees.
Bigger companies use services like Klarna not because they can't (often they have other payment methods as well and do their own bookkeeping), it's because customers like to use them and failing to use something like Klarna means their customers will shop elsewhere.
Some merchants sell via Klarna to private customers and via invoice or pre-payment to a proper bank account to business customers.
Private customers are second class. No business would deal with this nonsense.