Best Business Essentials (2026)

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

• Stax — Stax Payments
• Stripe — Stripe
• Square Payments — Square
• Grasshopper — Grasshopper
• QuickBooks Payments — Intuit
• Ooma Office — Ooma, Inc.
• Hiscox — Hiscox
• Clover — Fiserv
• ZenBusiness Registered Agent — ZenBusiness
• Helcim — Helcim
• NEXT Insurance — NEXT
• OpenPhone — OpenPhone
• Harbor Compliance — Harbor Compliance
• RingCentral MVP — RingCentral, Inc.
• Thimble — Thimble
• PayPal Business — PayPal
• Dialpad — Dialpad, Inc.