Electronic Payment Fundamentals

This section introduces you to the basic components of Electronic payments – how debit and credit card payments are actually collected and how taking card details over the Internet involves some slightly different features.

The next sections cover the different types of electronic payment available and some of the cost and application information you will need to make an informed choice about the electronic payment method that suits your company.

The Fundamentals pages cover:

* Merchant Services – Looking at how a normal high street shop takes credit-card payments;
* Customer Not Present – When a customer orders by mail-order or over a phone , the shop does not see the credit-card so the Merchant Service has slightly different terms and conditions;
* Basic Web Trading –To enable customers to place orders over the Internet you need some software to collect the card details and authorise the transaction.

Understand these fundamental electronic payment components and you will be able to use these new payment options to capture more revenues for your business.

Electronic Payments Benefits

Electronic payments can benefit your business by extending your customer base; boosting cash flow; reducing costs; enhancing customer service and improving your competitive advantage.

Five reasons why Electronic payments improve customer service – the five ‘Cs’

1. Choice – like your competitors, you can offer a wide range of payment options
2. Convenience – they remove the need for invoices, cheques, cash and BACs
3. Credit – they may allow purchases that would otherwise be delayed
4. Concessions – small discounts to encourage online purchases improve the perception of value
5. Competitive Edge – if you don’t offer the full range of payment options but your competitors do, what does this say about your business?

Five reasons why Electronic payments increase profitability

1. Convenience – removing administrative resources required by invoices, cheques and cash
2. Immediacy – credit cards enable instant purchasing (without delay)
3. Improved cash flow – payment at the time of purchase reduces the pressures caused by 30-day invoicing
4. Growth – open additional payment channels via the phone, mail order and Internet and increase your customer base. More customers mean more revenue.
5. Competitive advantage – match and beat the services of your competitors and gain the edge

The following sections explain the processes, costs and risks behind electronic payment systems. The Glossary option will help you to understand any technical jargon as you go along.

Pace Electronics Industry Joins The Coalition Citizen

Pace plc today announced that it has become a member of the Citizens’ Coalition for the electronics industry (EICC), which promotes a global code of conduct of the electronics industry to improve working conditions and environment through supply chain. As a member of EICC pace of work, with partners, suppliers and others in the industry to ensure the quality of the environment, ethics and standards of the people.

Founded in 2004, promotes the EICC better conditions for all those involved in electronics and ICT supply chain, including a better environment for workers, economic development, a cleaner environment and increased productivity local . To achieve this, the DART reduces duplication of effort among industry, to focus the collective efforts to drive positive social change and the environment, capacity building supply chain social responsibility, and facilitates stakeholder feedback. As a member of the coalition, Pace will develop high standards of conduct and support procedures, and apply them uniformly across the supply chain.

David McKinney, Chief Operating Officer of Pace said: “Pace, ensuring high standards of behavior throughout our supply chain is a higher priority than ever before, both ethically and ensuring our continued growth Our clients require visibility and accountability of their suppliers. and we must in turn ask the same of our partners and suppliers.

“To become a member of the EICC is common sense to Pace. We believe that by working as a collective, we can accomplish much more than we individually and we look forward to working with our suppliers to drive up industry standards in the coming months and years. ”

Peace EICC membership will help the company to develop its program responsibilities, including pioneering work in creating environmental standards and sustainable development. Peace, the next member of the EICC code of conduct engaged in their activities and the progressive implementation, the EICC approach and tools in the spirit of common objectives. As a first step, Peace EICC Code of Conduct applies to first-tier suppliers, monitoring of the application that uses the EICC and practical tools, as well as promote and support the vendors to do the same.

About Pace Micro Technology plc

Pace plc (LSE: PIC) is a developer of technology for the global pay-operator platforms satellite, cable, IPTV and terrestrial. Pace is one of the world’s most experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent and innovative products and services for pay-TV operators such as retail markets worldwide.

Electronic Payments Coalition promises to Continue Fighting Instructions for holders of payment cards

Today, by a vote of 54-45, the Senate failed to adopt a compromise version of the exchange rate fee study law as an amendment to the Act on economic revitalization (S. 782). Legislation would have required a review of the unintended consequences that might result from payment card plugs exchange price mandated by the Durbin amendment to reform Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank).

“It’s great that the Senate has decided to leave everything to the big bank governor, who warned that this might damage the banks and credit unions – and perhaps even lead to bank failures in a time when our country can afford” said Trish Wexler, spokeswoman for electronic payments coalition. “Giant retailers may be protected by their $ 12 billion windfall at the expense of small business and debit card holders across America. But do not give up efforts to protect the holders of payment cards, the effects of this ill-conceived legislation “.

Debit Card Durbin amendment was added to the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill without a single hearing, study or review of its possible consequences. Has prevented the Federal Reserve to consider these issues, and strictly limited in its discretion. Today’s proposed rule for the Fed to leave entire segments of the cost of debit cards to facilitate transactions. Since the proposed rule, the Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair is at the same time raises serious doubts about the rule, and in particular about the effectiveness of so-called “carve out” Community banks and credit unions. More than 11,000 comments submitted to the Federal Reserve, have expressed similar concerns, and hundreds of thousands of holders of debit cards to contact their members of Congress to support additional amendments.

About the Coalition for electronic payments

Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC), including credit unions, banks and credit card payment network, electronic payment systems that move quickly and safely by millions of merchants and millions of consumers around the world. The EPC goal is to protect the value of innovation, convenience and competitive system in the growth of electronic payment now. The EPC to educate policy makers, consumers and the media in the system’s role in economic growth, and the importance of protecting consumer choice and the stability of the continuous growth of global trade.

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