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Below are various types of financial tools that can help your business increase sales, improve customer service and loyalty, track purchasing patterns and support business development decisions.

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Business-to-Business Purchasing

Ask about how using a purchasing card for business-to-business supplies and other purchases offers a variety of benefits including discounts, tracking and reporting.

Bookkeeping Systems

Take advantage of a bookkeeper system that can help you manage your business finances, with integrated internet processing through your FDIS merchant account.

Credit Card Purchasing

Merchants who offer their customers a choice of payment options not only enhance their customers' shopping experience, but increase their own revenue-generating potential. FDIS processes major credit cards: MasterCard®, Visa®, PIN-secured and signature debit, American Express®, Diners Club®, Discover® and JCB® cards.

Debit Card Purchasing

Consumers may favor debit cards because the money comes directly out of their checking accounts, which can enable better financial management. FDIS offers both PIN-secured and signature-based debit card processing.

eCommerce

The eCommerce market is experiencing extraordinary growth and leaving little doubt that as more consumers use the Internet, eCommerce-based sales are no longer a luxury for many businesses, but an absolute necessity. FDIS offers eCommerce merchants several payment solutions to maximize electronic payment profit potential while also providing fraud protection.

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT)

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) is a system for distributing benefits electronically. For example, a card with a magnetic strip can be used for disbursing benefits to employees and they, in turn, may use the card for purchasing solutions.

Fraud Protection

From the latest encryption regulations to fraud protection, FDIS delivers safe, reliable transactions. It only makes sense that one of the largest processors in the nation would provide the most reliable and up to date fraud protection available to ensure that your eCommerce exchanges are protected.

Gift Cards

Gift cards have become enormously popular among consumers. The cards offer customer convenience, because they can fit into a wallet just like a credit card, and flexibility, because customers can use them whenever they want. As a merchant, your business is also benefiting from building further brand awareness. The gift card program can help merchants achieve greater sales volume and higher purchase amounts and can improve customer loyalty.

Leasing

Leasing credit, debit, wireless and other credit processing terminals can be a viable financing venue. FDIS offers a range of options.

Loyalty Programs

Inquire about real-time loyalty programs that allow you to interact with your customers to build profitable, longer-term business relationships. Loyalty programs, gift cards, reward fulfillment services and database application solutions help you to improve customer acquisition, retention, frequency and purchasing volumes.

Paper-to-Electronic Check

Paper checks may not always be the most popular form of payment for many consumers because of time spent at the point-of-sale; however, FDIS offers merchants a way to accommodate those customers who still prefer checks as a payment type. Through the TeleCheck® Warranty and Electronic Check Acceptance® (ECA®) services, merchants have the ability to accept checks in a safer, more secure and more profitable environment.

Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems

For a retailer, a point-of-sale information system is critical to gathering and applying information effectively in today's ultra competitive markets. The benefits of deploying a point-of-sale information system include reduced costs, faster response time to trends, improved customer service, smarter purchasing decisions, improved marketing and advanced monetary control.

Terminals

There are many different types of multi-functional, top-of-the-line terminals for credit card, debit card, wireless and paper check processing that support numerous markets and multiple merchant types.

Web Development Services

As a leader in the payment processing industry FDIS has access to other service providers such as web development experts, giving merchants the option to productively address most aspects of their eCommerce system needs.

Wireless Terminals

Secure cellular and wireless technology allows you to accept credit cards almost anywhere using a wireless magnetic card reader. With FDIS, you can get the best wireless credit card processing rate, lowest transaction fees and unlimited wireless use on our secure GPRS network.

About Your Educational Champion

FDIS "First Data Independent Sales is an industry leader in credit card processing for traditional and Internet businesses offering merchants competitive pricing, customer service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in 140 languages and dialects, and one of the largest credit card fraud, loss prevention and chargeback departments in the industry."

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