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6/20/06 |
Erickson Oil engages IPMS to provide in-store integration and
gateway services to their C-Store locations. The project includes
integrating, Ruby and Gilbarco POS, ATM, Check, Money Orders, and
Pre-Paid Phone Cards to operate via an IP broadband network provided by
Cybera Inc. The benefits of this project to the customer are quite
significant said Chris Etter, IPMS President. By optimizing each
store’s utilization of the broadband network, transaction speed is
greatly enhanced, and phone line requirements reduced. In fact, Mr.
Etter went on to say “C-Stores, due to the nature of their POS
environment, have a tremendous opportunity for both functional and
financial improvement. As a general rule, we always expect monthly hard
dollar savings to exceed the costs in a project like this, and that
doesn’t account for the pure, non-financial, functionality
enhancements”.
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| 6/1/06 |
IPMS completes latest annual PCI/CISP
audit and certification as a level 1 provider.
Like all of us in the EFT market place, we consider security
the most important component of our responsibility to the merchant
and cardholders said Mike Grippin, IPMS Director of Security.
Mr. Grippin went on to say “while we focus on maintaining the
highest degree of security in our physical network and policies and
procedures every day of the year, the independent annual validation
of our controls is a very helpful process.
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| 5/21/06 |
IPMS introduces National Banckcard
Systems
www.enbs.com to our direct processor relationships.
We are very pleased to have access to the NBS processing
platforms. We had numerous
requests from customers and are happy to be able to accommodate
their requests
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| 5/5/06 |
IPMS announces direct connectivity to
American Express processing platforms.
Many of our customers approached us to build a solution for
direct IP connections to American Express and we are thrilled that
we now have this capability said IPMS President Chris Etter. “Our
goal is to deliver our clients the most flexible, secure, and cost
effect solutions for their merchant services requirements.
Direct American Express connectivity further adds to our
ability to meet these goals”
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| 3/1/06 |
IPMS adds connectivity to RBS Lynk
www.rbslynk.com. Lynk
has an extensive range of products to offer our customers said IPMS
EVP Steve Maggs. Their
extensive ATM offerings provides us a great alternative for our
retail and petrol customer base.
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| 11/14/05 |
IPMS teams with Bank of Bermuda to IP
enable the island’s Exxon – Esso stations for EFT.
The petroleum market continues to evolve to IP based merchant
services at a very fast pace said IPMS President Chris Etter.
“The necessity for authorization speed coupled with
significant ROI benefits are very compelling. “
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| 9/2/05 |
Champps Entertainment selects
IPMS Gateway for connectivity to Stored Value Systems. The IPMS solution
provides Champps with direct, private IP connectivity from each location to
multiple SVS hosts. |
| 8/15/05 |
IPMS completes connectivity and
certification to Global Payments. The addition of Global Payments now means
that our clients have 16 National processing platforms
from which to choose,
stated IPMS President,
Chris Etter.
“We are very pleased to be
working with Global
Payments both domestically and in
Canada”, Mr. Etter went on to say. |
| 7/15/05 |
Unified Western
Grocers of Portland Oregon
selects IPMS as
their Payment Gateway.
UWG has maintained
their own private redundant
connections to
their
processor for some time
now said Chris Etter, IPMS President.
“The interesting thing
about this project is
that we were able to actually
enhance to redundancy that UWG had already built at significantly less
cost. Offering a more elegant solution, at less hard dollar cost is our
goal in every engagement” |
| 6/15/05 |
San Francisco based Pasta
Pomodoro restaurants selects IPMS as
their EFT payment
gateway. The conversion to the IPMS solution allowed each individual
location to connect directly to Fifth Third
processing platforms
over private redundant
connections, versus
typical SSL delivery over the
internet. We have found that given the choice, Operators much prefer
private managed EFT transport to
their
processors over the
internet (SSL) which has proven very difficult to manage and support stated
Chris Etter, President of IPMS. |
| 5/28/05 |
IPMS
announces today that they have completed redundant connectivity with Fifth
Third's St. Petersburg and Kentwood's processing platforms. Chris
Etter stated that "We're excited to add Fifth Third as another very critical
processing partner to the portfolio of available processors that IPMS
merchants can offer to their customers. IPMS continues to add key
processing partners based upon customer demand to allow merchants as many
processing options as possible." |
| 5/1/05 |
IPMS announces
today that the IPMS solution has been tested and certified to be
operational for the Verifone Ruby point of sale system. The IPMS
solution which IP enables legacy serial and analog devices can now be
extended to the Ruby point of sale. “This is very significant for the
C-Store operator that typically has 3-5 phone lines in place for credit,
checks, fuel cards, money order, lottery, ATM, video monitoring and
other serial devices” stated IPMS President, Chris Etter. Now the
operator can take the functional advantages of an IP based Wide Area
Network such as sub 4 second authorization speeds, while reducing
monthly operational costs.
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| 4/15/05 |
New
World Restaurant Group has successfully completed the initial testing of
IPMS's card transport solution to Concord EFS & Stored Value Systems.
The rollout of the successfully piloted solution is expected throughout '05.
All aspects of both Concord & SVS have redundant connectivity to assure 100%
reliability to the ever increasing card requirements that New World
customers have come to expect. |
| 4/05/05 |
Chris
Etter, President IP Merchant Solutions stated that "One of the most
intriguing benefits of the IPMS solution is the ability to easily add and
change processing partners which includes not only bank card but loyalty,
gift, private label and checks. In the case of Papa John's Pizza,
we've been processing their bank card traffic for some time and are pleased
that we could quickly provide connectivity to SVS and accomplish their new
business requirements. |
| 1/18/05 |
IPMS announces the additional of
Telecheck as a supported processing platform! Chris Etter, President
of IPMS commented "Telecheck is somewhat unique, since the terminal that
they use is an Eclipse terminal and the terminal has the capability to store
scanned check images and the images need to be transmitted to Telecheck.
The addition of Telecheck adds to IPMS's
portfolio of supported processing platforms including Vital, Paymentech,
First Data (North, South, Nashville), Concord, American Express (split
dial/dial format), Stored Value Systems, General Electric Finance, and
Alliance Data Systems |
| 1/12/05 |
Zao Noodle Bar deploys IPMS Gateway with HSI's
POS product and gets sub-four second transaction response. Stop by one
of the Zao Noodle Bar locations for a great meal and get checked out
quickly! Or visit Zoa's web site at
http://www.zaonoodle.com/ |
| 1/03/05 |
Excellent article
from the Houston Chronicle outlining the growing interest and
challenges in fast food merchants credit card acceptance. Consider
that ALL of the challenges listed for card acceptance are addressed in
IPMS's merchant solutions. The table below summarizes the challenges
indicated in the article with the appropriate IPMS solution to the
challenge. Read the complete article at
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2973645
| Challenge |
IPMS Solution |
| Slower service speed |
IPMS's transaction
speed via broadband WAN and IPMS's IP-based processing transport
takes less than 4 seconds to authorize credit/debit and loyalty
transactions |
| Lack of fraud protection
w/increased floor limits and no PIN usage |
Since IPMS's
authorization speed is less than 4 seconds, all card purchases can
be authorized even with PIN/debit transactions |
| Increased fees from use of
accepting credit cards |
While there is a fee
for accepting cards (one way or the other) IPMS's solution reduces
the per-swipe transaction fee by $.01-$.06 allowing a merchant that
accepts cards to pay less for the per-swipe authorization transport
helping to reduce the overall cost of accepting plastic |
|
| 10/5/04 |
Come join the fun and educational experience at FSTEC (Food Service
Technology) show at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando Florida October
24-27. Please make sure to stop by our booth and say hello! To
register to attend FSTEC follow this link:
http://www.fstec.com/ |
| 9/22/04 |
Kansas City based retailer Russell Stover
Candies
http://www.russellstover.com/ has selected
IPMS to provide IP based transaction services for all credit and debit
transactions. Introducing the IPMS solution will significantly reduce
authorization times which is a significant benefit to Russell Stover patrons
as well as store personnel, particularly during peak times. In addition
analog lines previously maintained for merchant services can be eliminated
which drives down store operating costs. |
| 6/15/04 |
Crabtree and Evelyn a
worldwide leading retailer of bath and body care products selects IP
Merchant Solutions to provide high speed credit card processing to their
retail locations. “Our solutions yield an excellent platform for Crabtree &
Evelyn to reduce monthly operating costs as well as enhance their customer’s
buying experience by reducing credit card authorization times from 12 to 15
seconds to less than 3 seconds" stated IPMS President Chris Etter.
Crabtree and Evelyn's fine products can be found in their stores or at
http://www.crabtree-evelyn.com/ |
| 5/24/04 |
Boston based Uno Chicago
Grill announced today that IP Merchant Solutions will provide IP gateway
services for their restaurant locations throughout the United States. By
significantly reducing credit and debit authorization speed, the IPMS
solution will yield both improved productivity and customer service. “UNO
Chicago Grill
is a great example of utilizing today’s technology to enhance business
operations” said IPMS President, Chris Etter. Take a look at Uno
Chicago Grill's
delicious offerings at
http://www.unos.com/ |
| 2/8/04 |
IP Merchant Solutions has
successfully past the stringent
CISP security audit for Visa International.
Chris Etter, President if IP Merchant Solutions said "The audit was
conducted by an independent audit firm authorized by Visa International.
The audit was conducted over a 4 week timeframe and I'm very pleased to
announce that no changes were required in our methodology or our
connectivity to various Processors." He continued to say "We have been
using triple DES (3DES) encryption from the start of the business and we
don't store data either locally or on the network. So we were
confident in our data security but we felt that the expense and effort to
become certified would be a benefit to our clients. And we can all
sleep better at night knowing that we went the extra step to become
certified." MasterCard is coming out with its own certification
shortly and American Express subsequent to MasterCard. Presently
MasterCard honors the Visa CISP compliance and is expected to have a nearly
mirrored program for certification as Visa. Mr. Etter said "when
MasterCard introduces their formal program, we will certainly participate in
that certification as we have with Visa's CISP." IP Merchant Solutions
is one of the first (if not the first) Processor Gateway to obtain the Visa
CISP authorization representing IPMS's commitment to cardholder and client
data security. |
| 11/25/03 |
National
Transaction Processors has changed it's name to IP Merchant Solutions to
address our broadened product offerings. IP Merchant Solution's
introduction of innovative audio and surveillance solutions based on IP
infrastructure created the need for a new corporate name and logo. "We
believe that IP Merchant Solutions better represents our continued goal to
offer Merchants innovative, and cost effective solutions, which enhance the
investment in an IP based Wide Area Network" stated Chris Etter, President
of the newly renamed IP Merchant Solutions. |
| 10/03/03 |
IP
Merchant Solutions named as
Premium Vital Integration Partner.
The VIP Program is a formalized Program for
System Integrators and Software Developers who are approved to process POS
transactions and have Class B Approved POS applications on Vital's platform.
The Program consists of an official registration process for approving
products and services to be supported on our platform. Upon approval, the
company automatically becomes a member of the VIP Program and has the
opportunity to strategically position their product offerings to Vital's
client distribution channel including acquiring clients of Vital Processing
Services and Vital Merchant Services, a leading terminal management services
provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of Vital Processing Services. For
more information please see Vital's web site at
www.vitalps.com. |
| 6/27/03 |
Stuart
Anderson's Black Angus Restaurants selects National Transaction Processors
as it's IP Integration Partner. Chris Etter, President of IP Merchant
Solutions stated "Stuart Anderson's unique requirement to support both a
legacy non-IP terminal (Hypercom T77) dial devices and their newer IP-based
Micro's implementation provided several unique challenges. IPMS's
innovative gateway addressed the challenge of properly performing the
'dial-to-IP' conversion as well as the unique IP header requirements when
authorizing and settling with Paymentech. Stop by Stuart Anderson's
for a delectable stead or checkout their web site at
http://www.stuartandersons.com/ |
| 4/17/03 |
Moneris Report
to Merchants: Poor POS Management undermines business.
Data collected by Moneris Solutions Corporation, Canada's
leading credit card processor of debit and credit payment, found that two thirds (66 per
cent) of Canadian consumers have decided not to purchase something because a
store's checkout line was too crowded or slow. The research is part of Moneris' inaugural Report to Merchants.
IPMS's authorization solution
reduces credit/debit card authorizations from 15 to less than one second
allowing merchants to speed customers through the checkout. See the
Moneris article at
http://www.moneris.com/newsroom/041603c.html |
| 1/13/03 |
See
IPMS guest
speaking at the National Association of Convenience Stores
technology show (NACStec) on April 28-30, 2003. IPMS will be
providing an informational seminar on different methods to acquire IP
connectivity and how to cost justify broadband connectivity in the
convenience store industry. For more information or to register for
this exciting show, point your browser to
http://64.49.216.152/NACSTech/Home.htm |
| 12/18/02 |
IPMS receives
processing certification from Squirrel Systems for Squirrel POS.
IPMS has worked with
engineers from Squirrel Systems to certify IPMS's broadband credit card
processing and authorization
solution with all currently supported versions of Squirrel Systems
software. Also supported is Squirrel's gift card program.
|
| 11/10/02 |
IPMS announces
strategic partnership with Precidia for their IP enabling devices.
Precidia designs and manufacturers a
unique devices that provide "IP-enablement" to non-IP devices
(legacy credit card terminals or dial required devices). Precidia
and IPMS have enjoyed a very successful technical and marketing
relationship facilitating each others products to integrate into IPMS's
unique merchant processing solutions. Precidia's devices are useful
for the integration of point of sale, card-swipe terminals, automated
teller machines, convenience store gas monitoring and many other legacy
dial applications.
|
| 10/13/02 |
IPMS provides informative article
on how broadband connectivity along with IPMS's merchant credit card processing
solutions for operators of
convenience stores through Michael Davis's myCstore technology articles.
View the entire article at
http://64.49.216.152/NACSTech/Home.htm
and scroll down to the December 2002 - January 2003 issue. |
Press
| 7/6/05 |
Hospitality Technology: Vantage Point
Faster
Transactions, Lower Costs: The Story of ZAO Noodle Bar
By
Deepak Wanner
President, Precidia Technologies Inc.
How can a restaurant
gain the speed and cost benefits of an IP-based transaction processing
solution, without the capital and training expenses required by an IP
terminal? ZAO Noodle Bar faced this dilemma, and today has deployed an
inexpensive, seamless solution to eliminate monthly dial line costs and
speed transactions.
Founded in 1997, ZAO
Noodle Bar is an Asian Noodle restaurant headquartered in San Francisco,
California. With 5 locations in the United States, ZAO has taken the food
service market by storm with
fresh, made-to-order exotic foods at
accessible prices.
As restaurant
operators know, the foodservice hospitality business is highly competitive,
and customers can be fickle. The successful merchant needs to continually
evaluate every aspect of the business, to ensure customers receive excellent
value and service, converting them to return business. Transaction
processing is no exception, with sales increased by 1% for every 6 seconds
saved in transaction times, according to industry insiders.
While most restaurant
managers are happy with their existing hospitality POS system, usually a PC
cash register, the growth of IP has provided new options for merchants
looking to keep communication costs low and improve transaction speeds. Many
of these merchants, who often have access to broadband, turn to IP
terminals. IP terminals offer a dramatic reduction in transaction speeds,
from more than 12 seconds per transaction to under 3. While these
transaction speeds are impressive, they don’t come without a cost. IP
terminals are expensive – today, more than 5 years after the first IP
terminal was released, a typical unit will cost the retailer $350-600. In
addition, the merchant must also consider the resources required to retrain
staff on new equipment.
ZAO wanted to retain
their existing PC cash register, which worked well for their business. Their
objective was to improve transaction speeds and lower their communications
costs, all without replacing existing equipment. While this may seem like a
tall order, Precidia Technologies provides a product line that does just
that.
ZAO turned to IP
Merchant Solutions (IPMS), a solution provider delivering a secure,
Internet-based, credit card transport solution. ZAO Noodle Bar’s existing
POS system is a PC cash register running off-the-shelf software, connected
to their processor by dedicated dial line. By using Precidia’s IP access
device to convert the dial-based transaction to IP, IP Merchant Services is
able to seamlessly connect ZAO’s cash registers to a broadband, 3DES, VPN
connectivity solution. This set up facilitates the secure delivery of credit
card transactions over the Internet through IPMS’s connectivity to ZOA
Noodle Bar’s credit card processor. With this connection established,
transaction authorization takes place via broadband WAN without changing how
cashiers enter transactions. With this solution implemented, each individual
transaction takes less than 4 seconds to authorize and the use of IP cuts
monthly costs by eliminating the dedicated dial line.
Chris Etter, President
of IP Merchant Solutions commented about the implementation: “This was a
good decision for ZAO Noodles. Precidia’s product gave them the ability to
convert the dial-based transport to their processor to IP. This offered
them significantly increased transaction speed and the ability to reduce
their monthly communications costs. The implementation was quick and all
equipment continues to perform flawlessly, ensuring ZAO can continue to
offer stellar customer service.”
ZAO Noodles President
& CEO Matthew Baizer says the move is in keeping with ZAO Noodle Bar’s
strategy to keep costs low and offer industry leading service: “We pride
ourselves on delivering an industry leading dining experience. Technology at
the point of sale is a part of the customer’s dining experience. The ability
to receive fast credit authorization with Precidia’s IP converter and IPMS’s
unique IP-based transport solution has contributed to customer satisfaction,
while lowering our costs.”
Precidia’s line of
POSConnect products are all designed to connect merchant transaction
processing equipment to broadband networks for faster transactions and lower
costs. Its POSLynx products provide excellent ROI to merchants by allowing
up to four POS terminals to be converted to IP. The Precidia Management
Server, sold with the POSLynx220 IP converter, improves the deployment of IP
converters, by allowing all devices to be configured remotely, from one PC.
This capability will ease the burden on merchants who lack in house
technical resources.
For more information
on this solution, visit
www.precidia.com or
www.ipmerchantsolutions.com. |
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