Increase Preferred Providers for Native Debit Card Processing

The current list of merchant service preferred providers is very limited. As of this moment it is Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America & Pamentech. Unless you are using one of these providers, you must use PCCharge or ICVerify to interface to the merchant service provider. If you use ICVerify or PCCharge, then you cannot process debit cards natively, and it is no solution to jump out of the tender window in RMS and process a debit card via PCCharge or ICVerify. The possiblilities for a cashering mistake are too great. I suggest making RMS robust enough to work with a broad range of merchant service providers, specifically First Data. First Data is the provider behind Wells Fargo and no telling how many others. I find it puzzeling if F.D. is Wells Fargo's processor, why F.D. can not also be a preferred provider as Wells Fargo is. Processing debit cards is a real money saver for merchants since debit cards cost much less to process than pure credit cards.

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I looked at Mercury Credit and could not get the same processing rates as I have with First Data. Since Mercury is not on the preferred provider list, how have they managed to be natively compatible?

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When you say "they have thier own interface", are you referring to their own USER interface, where the cashier will have to rekey the information or somehow take additional action, or do you mean their own APPLICATION interface, where the data is passed seamlessly from RMS to Mercury, and the approval is sent back from Mercury to RMS?

We are trying to make a decision about which credit card and debit card processing software or service would work best with RMS. So far we?ve looked at PCCharge, Mercury Payment Systems, TPI Software SmartPayments, and the built-in processing. Right now I don?t know what bank we will be going with, but I don?t think it will be one of the preferred providers.

Bill Yater Application Developer The Worth Collection, Ltd.

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