united-states contract-law california business
No written contract. Do I have to pay undisclosed early termination fee?
<p>A credit card payment processing company agent approached my business and offered to try out their service for free for a month as a trial. 
However, I decided not to use it after this one month trial, and request to cancel. 
Now they have already charged $840 as cancellation fee and PoS deprecation fee. Since there was no contract, I don't agree to pay these fees. <strong>Do I really have to pay them?</strong></p>

<p>A contract need not be written to be valid and enforceable.  However, if there is no written contract, then in a dispute the burden of proving (via a preponderance of evidence) a contractual obligation falls on the party asserting it.  In the scenario you describe it <em>sounds</em> like that would be impossible for the processing company.</p>
