A major provider of payment processing, risk and alternative payments, and a leading cloud call center management service provider have agreed a global partnership. The EasyPay product offers a secure transaction service while removing the need for call centers to have onerous annual PCI audits.
Paysafecard prepaid payment provider added one of the few remaining EU countries in which it is not yet present. In Bulgaria, the use of paysafecard is always linked to the online payment account my paysafecard. my paysafecard allows customers to manage all of their purchased PINs and remaining credit from a single account. In addition to its simple and secure payment process, which requires neither a bank account nor a credit card, my paysafecard users benefit from a greater overview of their balance and past payments. Customers simply have to verify their personal details once by presenting their ID card at a sales outlet. A specially developed web service makes it possible to immediately verify a customer’s identification.
Net 1 UEPS Technologies has released its 4Q/08 and year-end financial results, reflecting a fundamental net income and earnings per share growth. Regarding 4Q/08, Net 1 UEPS saw the official launch of its wage payment system in the KwaZulu-Natal province and, since the year-ago period, merchant acquiring system transactions increased 15%, grants paid increased 5% since, transactions processed per terminal increased 19%, the number of active UEPS smart card-based accounts increased 6% to 4,022,193 and transactions processed by EasyPay increased 17%. Net1 provides universal electronic payment (UEPS) to the
unbanked/under-banked in developing economies, targeting 4 billion
potential customers around the world.
GE Money and Mattress Firm have inked a multi-year agreement to provide consumer financing services. The Mattress Firm credit card program, issued through GE Money’s Sales Finance unit, is available through Mattress Firm’s 450 stores in 37 markets across the United States. The no-annual-fee “Mattress Firm” credit program provides various financing options that include EasyPay, a low fixed-interest program that makes financing affordable for consumers.
GE Money has renewed its consumer financing agreement with Thomasville Furniture. The no-annual fee Thomasville credit program provides various financing options that include the EasyPay, a low fixed interest program. With purchases of $1,500 or more, consumers can select a pre-payment plan for a period of 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 months. In addition, the program provides dealers with a wide variety of revolving promotional offers to help meet the needs of their customers. Thomasville furniture is sold through more than 150 independently owned Thomasville Home Furnishings Stores as well as more than 400 leading independent retail stores.
First Data has signed an agreement to market ADP Small Business Services’ “EasyPay” payroll solution to companies with less than 50 employees. Under the terms of the agreement, First Data’s merchant services sales channels can market ADP’s EasyPay and related small business offerings along with First Data’s proprietary check, credit, debit, and gift card acceptance programs. EasyPay is ADP’s fully outsourced service for payroll processing over phone, fax, or online utilizing ADP’s secure hosted application. First Data will also market ADP’s popular TotalPay® product suite â comprised of highly-valued money movement, fraud protection and check reconciliation features â and Total Tax CompleteSM, a set of compliance services including tax filing, state unemployment insurance management, new hire reporting and HR help desk services.
JCB celebrates its 8th anniversary of the opening of its
representative office in the Philippines with the “P1 Million JCB Credit
Reload “, offering a grand prize of one million pesos and many other
cash credit prizes under the slogan “enriching your life”. Additionally,
in order to capture a significant share of the remaining untapped
cardholder base in the Philippines, JCB is offering innovative products
such as “myDream JCB”, launched in 2003 by Bankard, with a uniquely low
annual fee of P800, compared to the usual P1,200, and a finance charge
rate of 2.5% compared to the usual range of 3.25%-3.5%. JCB has had a presence in the Philippines in the acquiring business since
1982 and in card issuing since 1996.
Shell Canada has selected ViVOtech’s “ViVOpay” technology to enable its in-store “easyPAY” contactless payment program. The easyPAY key fob-based system is based upon a wireless radio frequency technology that is unique to Shell Canada. easyPAY also offers the national AIR MILES Reward Program to its users. easyPAY AIR MILES Collectors are automatically awarded AIR MILES for qualifying purchases. ViVOtech provides an end-to-end transaction platform that allows consumers to make contactless payments with more than 70,000 of its contactless payment readers shipped around the world.
Shell Canada has selected ViVOtech’s “ViVOpay” technology to enable its in-store “easyPAY” contactless payment program. The easyPAY key fob-based system is based upon a wireless radio frequency (RF) technology that is unique to Shell Canada. easyPAY also offers the national AIR MILES(R) Reward Program to its users. easyPAY AIR MILES Collectors are automatically awarded AIR MILES for qualifying purchases. ViVOtech provides an end-to-end transaction platform that allows consumers to make contactless payments with more than 70,000 of its contactless payment readers shipped around the world.
Equitable CardNetwork in the Philippines has launched a new JCB credit card with a unique installment plan tailored to the ordinary worker’s salary payment cycle, as well as a reduced annual fee. The new “EasyPay JCB Card” allows cardholders to pay for every purchase in four equal payments, twice a month over a period of two months, since salaries are paid every two weeks in the Philippines. The card also carries an annual fee that is one-third of the average annual fee of other credit cards. Currently, there are approximately 4 million people with credit cards in the Philippines, about 5% of the total population, but most of these are from the top layer of the affluent classes. The “Easy Pay JCB Card” features are targeted to a much wider market, and ECN anticipates issuing 30,000 of the “EasyPay” product in the first year. Card marketing will be supported by newspaper, radio and public transit advertising. JCB cards are now issued in 18 countries and territories, with 51.6 million cardmembers.
Equitable CardNetwork has launched a new JCB credit card with a unique installment plan tailored to the ordinary worker’s salary payment cycle, as well as a reduced annual fee. The new “EasyPay JCB Card” allows cardholders to pay for every purchase in four equal payments, twice a month over a period of two months, since salaries are paid every two weeks in the Philippines. The card also carries an annual fee that is one-third of the average annual fee of other credit cards. Currently, there are approximately 4 million people with credit cards in the Philippines, about 5% of the total population, but most of these are
from the top layer of the affluent classes. The “Easy Pay JCB Card” features are targeted to a much wider market, and ECN anticipates issuing 30,000 of the “EasyPay” product in the first year. Card marketing will be supported by newspaper, radio and public transit advertising.
Global Card Services has selected the “Sybase Industry Warehouse Studio for Finance” to serve as the blueprint for the creation of new value-added services for GCS merchant customers. Global Card Services provides payment gateways to facilitate credit card processing, systems to automate retrieval and charge backs, and management services. Sybase Industry Warehouse Studio joins an existing installed base of Sybase technology that supports GCS both in real- time credit card transaction processing as well as in data warehouse applications to access historical transaction data for charge dispute resolution and enhanced customer service. Global Card Services is also in the process of developing a hosted turn-key system, conforming to Visa’s EasyPay criteria, to facilitate credit card payments to healthcare organizations.