Company: Bark Research, Inc.
Product: Mobile Merchant Payment Solution

Making good use of state-of-the-art technology and solutions gets easier every day. By applying them in new ways, their cost-effectiveness grows exponentially.

For instance, while lots of people have cellular phones, smart phones are increasingly becoming essential communications tools. Combine that technology with wireless technology and the growth of wireless data networks, and you're able to convert smart phones into payment processing devices.

Bark Research, Inc.'s Mobile Merchant Payment Solution provides state-of-the-art technology and highly reliable components at a very reasonable price, making it possible for a variety of merchants without fixed locations to accept and process card payments.

Bark's solution incorporates Bluetooth technology, ideal for short-range communication especially in the rapidly evolving mobile phone market, where it has become a standard feature on most products. The solution also relies on smartphones, combining voice and data functionality into one device (as a PDA and cell phone); along with Bluetooth wireless technology for transmitting secure data, it becomes a very powerful and easily transportable computing device.

Bark's solution utilizes the real-time wireless data networks of the big mobile phone operators such as AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile. The solution also incorporates a branded mobile card reader and printer and integrates with third-party payment gateways.

Remote retail sites; customer self-service; grocery stores; home based businesses; QSR drive-thrus; stadiums and arenas; taxi and delivery drivers; table service and patio dining; hotel (rapid check-in) and theme parks are all types of merchants who can make use of Bark's Mobile Merchant Payment Solution.

Bark Research, Inc.
3 Bell Canyon Drive
Dove Canyon, CA 92679
949-254-6939
www.barkresearch.com