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Spotlight Innovators

“Gateway technology has been a core part of the payments ecosystem for nearly two decades now,” said Martin Drake,
President of gateway provider USAePay. “While it’s true that any gateway product must diversify with the industry to
stay relevant, the providers who think outside of the box and use the inherent strengths built into their technologies to
solve marketplace issues, are the ones that will stand out.”

A merchant’s issues have moved beyond the day-to-day functionality of the gateway. While automated batching and
reporting, encryption and real-time access to transaction data are still paramount to a merchant, their world is becoming
more and more digitized by the day. They are also being faced with meeting an increasing level of compliance and
security requirements that impact their bottom line and ability to become more efficient.

These merchant-level challenges, and the desire of the processors to resolve them, have inspired USAePay to further
harness the power of its gateway technology to provide a new set of capabilities the merchant will benefit from at the
point of purchase and beyond.

All encompassing console
With the recent release of the newest version of the USAePay Merchant Console, merchants now have enhanced ways to
manage customer orders and manage their product database. The interface is not only convenient and simple to use; it
promotes productivity with its streamlined functionalities.

The updated virtual terminal features have been optimized to make managing batches, customized reports, fraud
modules, and processing transactions a breeze. The interface is more intuitively designed and configured to function
more like the other apps every merchant is now accustomed to using.

"The online user experience has changed drastically over the past few years. Users expect more and demand more from
online interfaces. The new merchant console not only meets those demands but exceeds it. It truly is the console for
today's merchant," said Ben Goretsky, CEO at USAePay.

The console has also been enhanced with two new groundbreaking features. The invoice manager enables a merchant to
add or customize invoices by using built-in and template-styled functionality. A merchant can now configure invoices
quickly by adding products, taxes, footer messaging, and branding all in the same environment they handle other
transaction-based activities. In addition to reducing the number of places a merchant has to go to manage these activities,
this feature reduces the risk of manual invoice errors, eliminates paper invoice costs and also enables a merchant to
invoice digitally.
Seamless device management and compliance

The new retail device manager feature in the USAePay gateway console provides merchants with the ability to connect all
of their devices to the console through a WiFi network or a Bluetooth connection while also managing those transactions
online. This not only enables the merchant to handle swipe, EMV and contactless transactions all in one place from a
remote or desktop computer device, it also serves as a solution for managing EMV transactions online.

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