Fiserv (First Data) - ICICI Merchant Services vs. Visa Acceptance Solutions (CyberSource)

The software which is web-based offers our employees access the portal for reporting, credit card processing remotely. This feature has been very useful during the current Covid environment.

Incentivized

For basic users it is probably a good fit. For connecting it's API's are straightforward and most would find it an easy connection to be made. The site overall is just not designed well. When you try to look at transactions a portion of the information is cut of without a scroll bar being added to slide to the fields you would like to see. If you need to see the data on the screen you need to make some adjustments.

Incentivized

• Securely stores data on FirstData's servers so that I don't have to worry about the technical details there.
• Integrates well with WordPress and WooCommerce and provides a seamless user experience.
• Allows customers to pay while staying on site, rather than leaving and coming back like PayPal.

Incentivized

• They have built the connections to multiple card providers so that a retailer does not need to build the code for each one separately.
• The decision manager product catches and stops a lot of fraud from getting through and causing a large number or chargebacks.
• They also connect to PayPal making it easy to add them to any website as a payment method.

Incentivized

• They're too big of a company, each division seems to know only about their own area to such a specific degree that if we make an inquiry about how another division integrates with whoever we're talking to, we're told to contact the other team.
• Constantly finding out there is yet another team that we need to work with to troubleshoot an issue.

Incentivized

• fees- competitive, but budget for them
• price transparency- it's hard to know exactly what you're being charged for. We are charged a small % of each incoming payment batch, so AR reconciliation is more difficult
• implementation- significant time and expertise required to get everything up and running smoothly

Incentivized

First Data is competive on its rate. Quality is acceptable, but not good compared to its competitors mentioned above.

Incentivized

Payeezy does not provide fraud check facility and they provide JS based integration. Since client wants server side integration due to security and fraud check as well in place of using another third party for fraud. We went ahead with Cybersource

Incentivized

• Our ROI has been very positive
• Our company has been able to process cash receipts remotely
• Our processing charges have been lower

Incentivized

• It has streamlined credit card processing for the whole organization
• Provides all the info we need to locate specific transactions and address issues accordingly

Incentivized