The Empowered Commerce Difference
In today's ever changing business world you need to work with a payment provider that is willing to be more than just another vendor. You need a payments partner. With Empowered Commerce, you will have a true partnership focused on your success!
The inspiration behind our company moniker comes from the core belief that a business relationship should be based upon trust and the desire to see you, the customer, succeed!
Multiple Tools under one Merchant Account
As an Empowered Commerce customer you will have open access to a variety of payment types including:
- Credit Cards
- Debit Cards
- Pin Based Debit Cards
- ACH (electronic checks)
- Gift Cards
- Etc.
Most of these can be processed and accepted in one or a multitude of different ways all through the same merchant account. Of which, these include:
- Online/eCommerce
- Over the Phone
- Mail Order
- Mobile Business (iPhone, etc.)
Visibility and Accountability
As a merchant you want to be able to easily track critical customer data. Information like customer name, items purchased, $ dollar amount of the transaction, payment type, remaining balance, invoice ID's, etc are crucial to business owners. Because your Empowered Commerce account includes the state of the art Authorize.Net payment gateway, you have access to all of this and much more, in one secure site. Some of the benefits include the following:
Reporting: Instant access to comprehensive reporting tools allows you to track payments at any time and import transaction information directly to your accounting software, regardless of where or how he transaction took place and what payment method was used.
Fraud Protection: You can protect your business by implementing a wide range of fraud detection filters and tools offered through the Authorize.Net Gateway. These include the ability to filter by amount, velocity, IP address, as well as address verification, shipping/billing miss-match verification, and much much more.
Virtual Terminal: You will have access to a web based portal to be able to manage your transactions and process mail order/telephone order (MOTO) payments manually Additionally, merchants can upload a multiple transactions to be processed in a single file.
Security: We use the highest available encryption technology and internal security practices available for web-based transaction processing. With constant network monitoring conducted 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the use of leading hardware solutions, we are ensuring that your data is secure.
PCI Compliance: Transactions processed through the Empowered Commence System and the payment platform used adhere to PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliancy regulations. As a merchant accepting credit cards, debit cards including processing and/or transmit credit card/debit card data are required to be PCI compliant.
