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Re: PC Authorize

From: Alan Rader
Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999
Time: 4:05:21 pm

Great, I believe that tells me what I need. Can I fax a purchase order to
get the ball rolling or how is it ordered?

Thanks



At 03:00 PM 1/24/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Alan Rader wrote:
>
>>What is consider as a merchant account? We accept visa, mc, discover, amx.
>> I did not setup the credit card stuff, so how can I tell? We get a
>>merchant statement every month for visa and mc and discover and amx send
>>out their own statements.
>
>Most of the time you have just a single merchant account. Like do you
>dial into the same network to authorize all card types, or do you have to
>dial a different network for each card type?
>
>
>>If I only have one merchant account and will only ever have to process one
>>card at a time, then I don't need the hub correct?
>
>That's correct... except the hub also does away with the Payment Queue,
>since it can hold the line open while authorizing each transaction so it
>knows in real-time if it was approved or not. Plus the hub does some
>other neat things, like auto-settlement of batches, etc.
>
>And if gives you room to expand for the future...
>
>Basically it's this... for the extra $100, it does away with the payment
>queue, you can authorize from any workstation in real-time, auto-settles
>batches and gives you something you can always expand on later if needed.
>
>
>>And if that is the case, can I install PC authorize on more than one
>>computer as long as only one computer verifies a card at a time?
>
>I suppose you could... But I've never tried it, so don't take my word for
>it... Each computer would need a modem, each computer would need PC
>Authorize installed on it and you would have to remeber to settle each
>batch on each computer every day.
>
>I think your reports would be wacky too... since you would have to run
>reports from each workstation and then manually total them if you ever
>wanted to run reports.
>
>The Hub is just cool because it also gives you a central authorization
>computer (so you can see what's going on centrally and you only need a
>single modem).
>
>
>>We are going to get PC Auth., after we figure out which package will work
>>for us. How long does it take to get the software from Data-point?
>
>Usually 2 days.
>
> - Shawn
>
>-------------------------------
>Shawn D. Hogan
>President, Data Point Solutions
>http://www.data-point.com
>(619) 452-3696
>ICQ: 8319647

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