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February, 2012:

Corporate Merchant Services Acquires Northern Star Financial

Corporate Merchant Services, a firm engaged in the business of electronic payment processing, has agreed to acquire fifty-one percent of Northern Star Financial, the parent company of Northern Star Bank.

What does that mean to you?  Not much.  Want to get the best merchant services solutions for your company?  Find out how by getting the merchant services processing guide.

Merchant Equipment: First Data FD100

No matter what kind of in person, or over the phone, merchant services processing you are doing the First Data FD100 is a simple and productive merchant equipment solution.  Choice Merchant Services offers the First Data FD100 for free to our medical merchant services merchants as well as our retail merchant services merchants.

To read more about the First Data FD100 view the link to the left.  Here are some highlights:

  • Retails for $349.00 but Choice Merchant Services offers it for free.
  • Accepts credit cards as well as debit cards with built in pin pad
  • Touch screen
  • Same day batching of transactions.
  • Build in thermal printer for fast printing
  • PCI/PED complaint for top security.
  • Connect with both broadband & dial-up with SSL encryption

To get the Frist Data FD100 for free get a best merchant services quote from Choice Merchant Services.

Credit Card Processing, Merchant Services, and One Simple fact

The credit card processing industry is not heavily regulated. This results in one simple fact: merchant services processing companies raise prices on their merchants without warning or agreement from their clients.

Just like a bank that offers a generous interest rate on a checking account to only a few months after you sign up for it have your interest rate lowered to be about one half of what it is now, merchant services processors jack up discount rates and fees without warning.

This is why too good to be true merchant services rates should be not taken seriously, essentially by signing with one of the to good to be true processors, you are signing up with an aggressive and unethical merchant services processing partner.

Merchant Services Equipment: Vivopay 4000

The Vivopay 4000 tap and go and swipe merchant services equipment in the merchant equipment of the future.  Why?

It has the ability to accept merchant services transactions via swipe methods as well as cutting-edge tap and go technology.  In the future all credit and debit card transactions will be done via tap-and-go.  Essentially a tiny chip will be put into most smart phones enabling people to tap their smart phone to a merchant equipment terminal such as the Vivopay 4000 and complete their merchant transaction in much less time than with a traditional swipe transaction.

Some merchant services experts are worried that technology like the Vivopay 4000 will enable an increase in credit card fraud.  This will be quite the opposite in that smart phones can be setup to instantly scan a thumbprint placed on the smart phone screen before allowing a tap and go transaction to transpire.

So if you are looking to get merchant equipment that will last you for the next 15+ years, get the merchant equipment of the future with the Vivopay 4000 terminal.