Best Business Essentials (2026)

Payment processors, insurance, business phone, and registered agents — the boring infrastructure that protects you.

• Stax — Stax Payments
• Grasshopper — Grasshopper
• Stripe — Stripe
• Square Payments — Square
• Adyen — Adyen N.V.
• Shift4 — Shift4 Payments, Inc.
• Authorize.net — Visa Inc.
• QuickBooks Payments — Intuit
• Braintree — PayPal
• The Hartford Small Business Insurance — The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
• GoTo Connect — GoTo
• Intermedia Unite — Intermedia.net, Inc.
• Phone.com — Phone.com
• PayPal Zettle — PayPal Holdings, Inc.
• Zoom Phone — Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
• State Farm Small Business Insurance — State Farm
• Liberty Mutual Business Insurance — Liberty Mutual Insurance
• Dialpad Small Business — Dialpad
• NEXT Insurance — NEXT
• OpenPhone — OpenPhone
• Harbor Compliance — Harbor Compliance
• Thimble — Thimble
• RingCentral MVP — RingCentral, Inc.
• Dialpad — Dialpad, Inc.
• Chase Payment Solutions — JPMorgan Chase & Co.
• Chubb Small Business Insurance — Chubb Limited
• Wave Payments — Wave Financial Inc.
• 8x8 X Series — 8x8, Inc.
• Ooma Office — Ooma, Inc.
• Geico Commercial Insurance — Berkshire Hathaway
• Vonage Business Communications — Vonage
• Clover — Fiserv
• ZenBusiness Registered Agent — ZenBusiness
• Progressive Commercial Insurance — Progressive
• 8x8 Express — 8x8, Inc.
• PayPal Business — PayPal
• Progressive Commercial — Progressive Casualty Insurance Company
• CNA Small Business Insurance — CNA Financial Corporation
• Progressive Answers — Progressive Casualty Insurance Company
• Helcim — Helcim
• Hiscox — Hiscox
• Nextiva — Nextiva, Inc.
• Hiscox Business Insurance — Hiscox Ltd