Episode

21 Jul 2025 · 38 min

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Podcast interview (Home Service Hacks) between host Bill Brown and Jim Kolchin (founder of iWallet) exploring payments solutions for trade businesses. Jim recounts his field-service roots, frustrations with legacy merchant pricing (tiered/non-qualified rates), and building iWallet to solve practical trade pain points: easier mobile check deposit (one-sided capture with virtual endorsement), Tap to Pay acceptance (Apple Pay/Google Pay), integrated tips tied to real-time review prompts to boost reputation, and a PCI-compliant voice-AI phone payments flow to remove call-center card-data risk. He describes iWallet’s incorporation (Jan 2019), product pivots (QR/ACH experiments), deployment timeline for the current system (about three years prior to the interview), underwriting/fraud tradeoffs for check processing, and positioning as a lower-fee alternative to large integrated providers.

Questions this episode answers

January 2019.

About 30–40% (guest estimate).

One-sided mobile check capture with automatic/virtual endorsement (patented technology).

Apple Pay and Google Pay (Tap to Pay).

About three years (since pivoting during/after COVID).

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