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CompanyProfile
ISO/MLS contact:
Scott McEwing
Vice President of Sales
888-500-7798
marketing@centurybizsolutions.com
https://www.centurybizsolutions.net/century-agent-and-iso-program/
Synching payments with back-office systems
rvine, Calif.-based Century Business Solutions has SAP Business One, to name several. Everyone from
developed payment processing technology that small operators in the transportation industry to large
today serves over 10,000 U.S. and Canadian mer- distribution companies can apply Century's integrated
I chants. Since its founding in 2004, the company has solutions to accurately manage business processes.
integrated over 50 enterprise resource planning (ERP),
customer relationship management (CRM) and account- Century recently launched the EBizCharge Mobile app
ing systems, as well as shopping carts including Magento for iOS and Android. The app allows merchants to accept
and WooCommerce. credit, debit and automated clearing house payments on
their phone or mobile device, and it seamlessly integrates
"We started out as merchant services provider and saw with the merchant's accounting software, the company
a need in the marketplace for streamlined payment reported.
acceptance," said Jessica Travis, vice president of
marketing for Century. "A lot of these merchants were New agent-ISO program
using ERP-accounting software, and once they processed In July 2018, Century rolled out an agent and ISO program
the card, they'd have to manually apply everything back for sales offices nationwide. "As a leader in the B2B and
into their ERP- accounting software." card-not-present environment, we're excited to partner
with highly successful and motivated sales professionals
To eliminate the tedious task of having to manually enter across the country to give small businesses access to the
the same data into multiple systems, Century initially efficiency and cost-savings of our integrated payment
integrated with Intuit Inc.'s QuickBooks, which enabled solutions," said Scott McEwing, vice president of sales for
merchants to process credit card payments directly Century.
within their QuickBooks system. In doing so, Century
recognized a greater need beyond QuickBooks and Sales offices can now access Century's PCI-compliant
expanded its in-house development team to build out its payment gateway, mobile solutions, integrated payments
integration portfolio. and online customer bill pay portal to help merchants
automate accounting workflow processes and accept
"As of today, we have over 50 different integrations into payments directly into their accounting, ERP and CRM
ERPs, CRMs, accounting systems, ecommerce shopping systems, and online shopping carts, Century stated. "The
carts, as well as our own proprietary payment gateway biggest benefit for agents out there looking to come on
and mobile solutions," Travis said. "We kind of do it all. board is their access to our solution portfolio," Travis
We support everything." said. "A number of their customers do not have access to
Gateway, portal connectivity these payment integrations and merchants want these
integrated solutions."
At the heart of Century's integrative hub is its EBizCharge
payment gateway, which delivers secure, Payment Card According to Century, the program offers a top-paying
Industry (PCI)-compliant plug-and-pay capabilities. As an residual compensation plan, including generous
additional layer, its EBizCharge Connect invoicing portal revenue sharing, guaranteed lifetime residuals, monthly
allows merchants to send invoices or links to customers performance bonuses and timely residual payments. Sales
via email. offices are backed by a dedicated in-house agent support
team, a statement analysis team, an in-house chargeback
"They click on the email once received and can log into management team and 24/7 merchant support.
EBizCharge Connect to pay off invoices," Travis said,
noting that automated clearing house payments can "They have a dedicated ISO manager to help them with
easily be executed. "Once they've made a payment on everything," Travis said. "We mostly play in the small
their invoice, that payment will automatically synch back to medium business space, but we do have quite a few
into the ERP or accounting system that our merchant is large accounts, especially as we integrate to some of these
using and apply that payment to QuickBooks or Sage big ERP systems." Century provides an extensive online
or whatever system that may be." Other integrations resource library, Travis noted.
include Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle and
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