February 2010

You are currently browsing the monthly archive for February 2010.

Business & Corporate Card Processing

February 18, 2010 in Merchants by steve

Save Time And Money By Processing Level III Data Through Vision Payment Solutions

Do You Currently Accept Credit and Debit Card Payments From Businesses Or Government Agencies Without Adding Level III Data? If you do, you’re likely paying significantly higher processing rates than you should!

In most cases adding Level III (L3) Data through Vision Payment Solutions will significantly reduce the fees that you pay for processing Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Government (B2G) transactions. Since the benefit is a reduced percentage rate, your savings increase with the size of your transactions.

What Is Level III Data?

L3 Data is additional information about a transaction which is commonly found on an invoice, such as: tax, product/service description, etc. Visa® and MasterCard® generally assess higher interchange rates for B2B and B2G transactions if L3 Data is not included with the transaction.

Why Should I Use VPS To Process Level III Data?

VPS offers one of the only payment processing gateways certified to process L3 Data. The proprietary solution identifies L3 transactions prior to prompting for additional information, significantly reducing excessive data entry. In addition, VPS’s solution automatically calculates and populates data for L3 transactions, further maximizing your efficiency. In short, VPS is one of the few solutions that can process L3 Data, and we make the process as easy for you as possible.

Which VPS Solutions Support Level III Data?

Merchants using PT “Professional” are able to process L3 Data through any of the following methods:

• Virtual Terminal

• Mobile

• Shopping Cart

• API

• Recurring Payments

• Batch Upload

Our company provides merchant accounts, supports all major credit and debit cards, e-check and ACH transactions, electronic benefits transfer, recurring bill payments, and gift and stored-value cards. As a proven leader in payment technologies, we offer advanced virtual terminal and payment gateway including level 3 data solutions that are fully supported by our in-house teams.

Mobile Store Maker and Mobile Invoicer

February 16, 2010 in Merchants by steve

App Publishing has launched a 30 day, five-dollar trial, for Mobile Store Maker and Mobile Invoicer. Users can build a mobile store with their own products and begin charging customers on their mobile phone using a choice of payment options, including existing online merchant accounts through the Authorize.net or PayTrace gateways.

Put your products where your customers can find them… on their phone. Mobile Store Maker is a do it yourself tool that gives you the ability to build a mobile store with your products quickly and easily. Many merchants will find that mobile commerce offers a greater opportunity than ecommerce has simply due to the convenience of ordering from your phone.

Charge your customers on your phone anywhere you have a signal. With Mobile Invoicer, you can hand your phone to your customer your phone to collect payment anytime, anywhere; or you can send an invoice by email and your customer can pay using their own phone or computer anytime, anywhere. Late payment reminders are automatically sent after due date.

To sign up or for more information, please go to the follow website… http://apppublishing.com/vps/

Mobile Commerce, Swipe Rates and Signature on your Iphone!

February 12, 2010 in Merchants by steve

Accept card payments anywhere.

The highly portable and affordable nature of PAYware Mobile enables Vision Payment solutions to offer credit and debit card processing to small business customers, anywhere your business takes you.

Tradeshows, door steps, church halls – they’re all now perfect places to expand a your business. Receipts can even be emailed right there on the spot. PAYware Mobile includes an app that is PA-DSS certified, and the reader uses VeriFone’s VeriShield Protect which provides critical end-to-end encryption and reduces overall PCI scope.

Reap the rewards of using a PAYware Mobile product brought to you by Vision Payment Solutions.

With the Vision Payment Solutions introduction of PAYware Mobile, VeriFone has finally developed the key that opens the door to two largely untapped markets: merchants accepting credit cards for the first-time, and those who have not been able to accept credit card transactions outside their storefront. To inquire about tapping into those markets by using a PAYware Mobile & PAYware Connect products, send me an email listed below, fill in the short form and one of our representatives will contact you.

Pricing.

Sled for the iphone = $149

Gateway = $30/month

Transaction = $0.30/per

One Time Set-Up = $49

* Sled is free with a 2 year contract

Have questions or want to submit statements for review?

Simply complete the form below and one of our experienced professionals will contact you.

Have questions? Simply complete the form below and one of our experienced professionals will contact you.

FREE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING FOR MERCHANTS. Increase your sales!

February 8, 2010 in Partners by steve

Mobile Promotions (Couponing and Marketing) – a great tool for prospecting, showing customer appreciation or even saving an existing merchant from switching to your competition.
Good news for you! We’re giving away our Mobile Promotions™. Now you can use LIFT’s Mobile Promotions™ to get prospects interested, show appreciation or save your account from being lost to the competition.
Empower your merchants by giving them the ability to send coupons, buy one get one free promotions and other special offers all to their customer’s cell phones. And the best part of all – it’s FREE.

How’s it work?
The merchant tells their customers they can get special offers when they join their Mobile Club
The merchant sends an offer from their PC.
The customer comes back.

Did you know that you can offer your prospects and merchants FREE advertising and Marketing services? This is GREAT news! A try before you buy coupon and marketing service that helps you acquire more merchants and get more referrals from your existing merchants.

You WIN! We’ve partnered with LIFT Network to help you acquire more, get more referrals and increase your overall income. There are a lot of benefits to using our FREE no obligation try before you buy Mobile Promotions – Coupon and Marketing system. Here’s 5 of them:

1. More income

2. Higher residuals

3. More referrals

4. Acquiring more accounts

5. Something to separate you from the rest.

Find out more how you can give your prospects and merchants FREE advertising.

Call us 877-674-2286 ext 411
Email Us: sgent@visionpayments.com
TEXT: “VPS” To:59925

About LIFT Mobile Promotions™
LIFT is focused exclusively on the small-businesses advertising and marketing needs and that means we can provide a proven, powerful and cost-effective way to stay in touch, promote their business and drive sales.

In fact, our Mobile Promotions Coupon & Marketing service complements any form of advertising and marketing, it can be used stand-alone and it takes advantage of what loyal and satisfied customers can do for the business – referrals, repeat purchases, and increased revenue.

The Loyalty Program, LIFT

February 2, 2010 in Partners by steve

In-Store and Online. Local, Regional, National Marketing and Promotion

It’s Complete! LIFT is a unique company that offers all of the hottest marketing tools including Retail card programs, Email marketing, Internet advertising, Customer CRM (Customer Relations Management), TXT messaging and retail business coaching under one roof.

In-Store Marketing / Promotion
A card program to suit any retailers need for increasing sales and retaining their customers. One card does it all – Gift, Prepaid, Loyalty, Rewards and couponing.

Email Marketing and Surveys
Staying connected to customers couldn’t be easier with LIFT’s integrated solution to Constant Contact

Online LOCAL Marketing
Shop&Dine store directory makes it easy for local retailers to introduce themselves to potential customers.

Mobile Promotions
Local businesses can send TXT messages to their customers with ease using the hottest new marketing tool.

How LIFT Works

The LIFT system integrates hardware and proprietary software to deliver the best marketing tools available today, including custom branded Retail card programs (Gift/Prepaid/Loyalty/Rewards all on a single customized card) • Email marketing; Internet advertising • Customer CRM (Customer Relationship and Management) • Targeted Mail • and TXT Messaging (Mobile SMS) all easily accessible from our web portal MDC (Merchant Data Center).

The Retail card program is used as the “tool in the field” to collect customer information, build customer databases and to deliver a customized loyalty solution unique to your business.

The online Merchant Data Center allows you to effectively communicate with your customer, view customer activity and launch customized marketing and promotion campaigns.

Electronic Check Processing! ICL Check Truncation

February 2, 2010 in Merchants, Uncategorized by steve

ICL Check Truncation is an exciting new solution that was designed for clients with higher than average return rates and unauthorized transactions, or for clients who accept large dollar amounts over the Internet. Payliance’s patent-compliant process creates check images from a client data file — no paper check is required.
These transactions are governed by the Check 21 Act and Uniform Commercial Code – Not Regulation E, which means:
• No restrictions on percentage of returns
• No restrictions on unauthorized returns
• No maximum dollar amount
• No consumer authorization needed
• Less likely to be shut down due to high returns or UA’s
• All types of checks and money orders are accepted
• Provides you with access to more customer accounts than any other single payment method because you can accept all types of checks and money orders

Print Services & Distribution Association members to receive discounted merchant services

February 2, 2010 in Uncategorized by steve

Portland, Me — January 2010 - Vision Payment Solutions (VPS), a bank card processing, ACH and Merchant Cash Advance company and the Print Services & Distribution Association (PSDA) have agreed to a relationship that extends special, discounted rates for merchant services available only to PSDA Members. Member rates and details regarding available solutions and services may be viewed online at a dedicated website for PSDA Members at http://www.visionpayments.com/psda

The relationship delivers VPS’s comprehensive suite of merchant processing services to PSDA and its members throughout the United States, offering products and solutions including credit and debit processing, electronic gift cards, online reporting, and access to a variety of payment terminals designed to service the needs of the Print, Services, and Distribution industry.

“Our flexible solutions and local customer service align with PSDA member services. We look forward to helping the PSDA deliver to it’s’ members all the resources they need save significant amounts of money through processing level III data. The PSDA members have not previously had the opportunity to save money on B2B transactions in this manor.” said Steve Gent, Vice President of Business Development, for VPS.

About Vision Payment Solutions:
Vision Payment Solutions is a fast-growing provider of merchant services based in Portland, Maine. We offer a complete range of payment technologies to merchants for retail, e-commerce, direct software integration, and custom payment applications.

Our company provides merchant accounts, supports all major credit and debit cards, e-check and ACH transactions, electronic benefits transfer, recurring bill payments, and gift and stored-value cards. As a proven leader in payment technologies, we offer advanced virtual terminal and payment gateway solutions that are fully supported by our in-house teams.

About Print Services & Distribution Association:
The Print Services & Distribution Association is an international organization of print distributors, trade printers and suppliers working together to ensure that end users receive the products and services they need to succeed.

Since 1946, PSDA has been the exclusive association for the print distribution industry. Our members are a knowledgeable, successful and dedicated group of business printing professionals leading the progress of the print distribution industry. PSDA supports this success by providing our members with the highest quality of information and resources through our networking and educational events, online curriculum offerings, award-winning publications, and sourcing referral services.

It is our mission to stay ahead of relevant industry trends to better provide our members with the resources they need to thrive in the changing marketplace. We employ industry professionals who work to ensure that all PSDA programs and services serve the single purpose of helping our members grow their businesses, increase their profits and prevail in the long run.