Streamlining Your Payment Processing

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How many businesses do you know that don’t accept credit cards? They’re few and far between, and if your company wants to grow, you’re going to have to accept cards as a part of daily life. This method is not without problems for merchants, though. A credit card payment is one that comes with its own fees and potential for fraud, and even if you use the best payment processing service in the world, you’re still going to find costs involved that you just didn’t expect. How can you streamline the experience and make certain you’re paying a little less with every single transaction? These tips can help.

Implement Fraud Protection
Businesses deal with thousands in fraud every single year, and with a few simple steps, you could protect your company and move forward fraud-free. Do some research about the types of fraud you’re most likely to encounter in your industry and make sure your online payment services if you accept orders over the internet, are up to speed and working to protect your company.

Know Your Business
Understand what types of payments customers are most likely to present, and the kinds of cards they typically use. Mastercard and Visa, for example, are processed very differently than American Express. Debit cards are cheaper for your company to process than credit cards. Some kinds of transactions mean higher rates. The key is to know exactly what kinds of payment methods your customers prefer and where your costs are going to be.

Choose the Right Processor
As you shop for payment processors, make sure you’ve selected the one to meet your needs. You’re going to find companies that offer flat fee payment processing that looks like a good choice, but the chances are astronomical that unless you’re dealing with really low transaction totals on a daily basis, you would save more with a company that offers a different structure.

Interchange passthrough rates, for example, tend to be far lower, as they pass the interchange fees on to you, so you can see exactly what you’re paying for every single time. Because there are so many different processors out there, though, and they all charge you differently, the key is to understand exactly what you’re getting.

Learn more about Y2Payments payment processing solutions, contact us today at 888-693-1850.

Streamline For Better Payment Processing

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Credit card processing fees aren’t always fair. Payment processing can seem limited, and built to punish small businesses, low volume sellers, and the business-to-business industry. These businesses need better payment processing options that can fully cover a range of payments, including ACH/EFT payments.

Better Credit Card Processing

The solution is interchange plus pricing. This model is less complicated and more straightforward than traditional credit card processing. It’s also more flexible in terms of satisfying many modern requirements that businesses have.

The best approach is to compare the two options. For many large volume sellers or large franchises, they see beneficial credit card processing deals with friendly rates. Their payment processing options are beneficial to them because processors want to secure their business long-term.

Even Footing for Small Businesses

For most businesses outside this range, they just don’t see the same benefits offered to them. Processors are less confident in these businesses and so they look to make more money out of them in the short-term, unconcerned with the impact on a long-term partnership. This benefits them, but not your business.

Interchange plus pricing is an approach to credit card processing that relies on giving you the information you need to make a decision up-front. You can even see an audit of your current fees and compare these to what they’d look like under Y2Payments.

Y2Payments Conduit

Our platform is called the Y2P Conduit, manages these payments. It’s fully PCI DSS compliant. You can securely run transactions across six payment channels. This includes payments made by internet or phone, by mail, or at point-of-purchase, whether it’s through credit, debit, or ACH. Reporting according to your organizational structure is rolled into this. This allows you the benefit of increased analytics and reduced risk on purchases, transactions, and chargebacks.

With the Y2P Conduit, you don’t have IT implementation expenses or changes in how your staff performs their jobs. Other credit card processors aren’t concerned with your quality of service.

The Y2Payments method of better payment processing, payment structures and the Y2P Conduit’s ability to quickly reduce transaction fees, gives you more control over your business and gives your business a better deal than with other processors.

Contact Y2Payments today at 888-693-1850 for a free no risk statement review & audit!