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                                                                                              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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