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  Your Software
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  Integration Tools
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  IPC Platform
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  Federated Identity
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  Business Rules
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  Modules & APIs
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  PCI Compliance
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  Distribution
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  Boarding
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  Enrollment
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  Marketplace
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  Adoption

Your Software

Your software - whether hosted, packaged, cloud or SaaS - can quickly and securely become a complete payment solution with IP Commerce. And, with full multi-channel support for ecommerce, retail, restaurant and MOTO implementations, adding additional commerce services opens up new business and revenue opportunities for your software.

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Integration Tools

Meeting your customers’ payments needs requires a partner who understands your development needs. The free Platform Integration tools support your integration, regardless of implementation methodology or language preference. Multiple services and multi-channel support ensure your innovation is successful.

Through the leading payments developer lab, software companies and developers can find applicable APIs, toolkits and documentation to ensure an ordered and timely development process. Learn more about Integration Tools from the payments developer lab.

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The Platform

The IP Commerce Platform reduces the cost, time and complexity of deploying commerce-enabled applications with a cloud-computing approach to development and delivery that provides leverage and scale to partners. When developing a payment application, the Managed Commerce Services Platform provides a comprehensive approach to integration, promotion, acquisition, and activation.

Adjudicated Settlement Logic – GettaGetta!, a social commerce application, uses the Platform to enable adjudicated settlement logic in their application. Purchase thresholds are defined in the application layer and fund "capture" is delayed until the purchasing community meets these thresholds. Read More »

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Federated Identity

Securely communicate user rights, roles and privileges across Platform providers and applications with Federated Identity services from IP Commerce. Whether you require Federation for Single Sign-On workflows today, or need to leverage 3rd-party transactional claims in the future, the Platform enables you to meet the demands of your customers and the payment providers they choose to partner with. Future payment innovation will be driven by intelligent and secure interaction between multiple parties with your software solution as the lynchpin.

Single Sign-On – AurionProIn their Transaction Management Module, the team from AurionPro leveraged the SSO Toolkit for Commerce Modules offered through the IP Commerce Platform. Read More »

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Business Rules

Adding payments to software is only a portion of successfully commerce-enabling an application. Layering this integration with cloud-based business rules that tailor payment acceptance to match your workflow is the key to success. Whether multi-service or multi-provider activation, the usage of soft descriptors, or channel specific pricing bundles, the Platform is leveraged to ensure your business workflow requirements are met.

Mobile Payments – SquareMerchant customers easily consume mobile payments acceptance with the added benefit of using Soft Descriptors to ensure billing/reporting information is understood by consumers. Read More »

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Commerce Modules & APIs

Software growth has always been driven by intelligent re-use. If your solution requires a component already built by a Platform participant, you can simply “snap-in” their business solution to supplement your workflow….from Online Transaction Management to a white-labeled Virtual Point-of-Sale. All the capabilities you need, with fully white-label support, available through the same free toolkits.

Meeting your customers’ commerce needs requires a partner who understands your development needs. Free Platform APIs support your integration, regardless of implementation methodology or language preference with multiple services and multi-channel support ensure your innovation is successful. Partner APIs supplement to offer integration options for specific workflows or verticals.

Actionable Transaction Data - Priority CommercePriority Commerce built a Transaction Management utility valuable to many Software Companies to offer as a pre-integrated solution in their application. Read More »

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PCI Compliance

Will your solution capture, process, store, or transmit credit card data? If so, you are obligated to comply with one or more of the payment card industry security standards. Compliance with security requirements does not, necessarily, ensure a secure application…but it is an important step in the process. The compliance tools offered by the payments developer lab simplify this process and a fully integrated workflow ensures you achieve appropriate compliance milestones concurrent with your integration.

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Distribution

Your development process is complete…your application is ready for market. A key benefit of leveraging the Platform is ensuring distribution opportunities outside of your direct channels. Payment industry participants (ISO, Acquirers, Sales Agents) rely on your solutions to meet their customers’ needs. Capture this unique opportunity offered by the Platform.

Sales Channels Need Your Solutions –Payment Processing Direct (PPD)A depth of experience in selling integrated payment solutions, and customer demand, led PPD to search for an integrated acceptance solution for QuickBooks. In the Platform they found a range of solutions available to sell…including a full-featured card acceptance or electronic invoicing solution for QuickBooks. Read More »

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Boarding

Multiple services, multiple providers, and multiple channels yield a complex series of boarding requirements and business relationships to be managed. An integration to the Managed Commerce Services Platform alleviates this difficulty by simplifying not only the technical components of commerce enabling your solution…but also the business components. Your business, faster.

Predictable Recurring Revenue – Ventek InternationalSimplifying maintenance and deployment, by removing middleware products, reduces Ventek International’s costs. Using Platform Boarding support, Ventek International brings customers to market faster than before. More solutions, More installations, More revenue. Read More »

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Enrollment

The application process for your customers today is cumbersome, time-consuming and largely paper-based. The resulting delays can cost you significant time, money and customers before they ever have a chance to process a transaction. Members of the Platform ecosystem, to eliminate this roadblock to revenue, deploy Commerce Enrollment.

Getting Merchants Transacting Faster – Bankcard Services (ISO)Bankcard Services had a large team of employees who gather faxed applications and enter the data multiple times for CRM input and underwriting quality checks. Commerce Enrollment allows for direct input by merchants and sales agents providing more accurate data that instantly and automatically performs the quality checks and sends data into their CRM. The Sales Agents receive feedback much more quickly, merchants are transacting sooner and Bankcard found that, since implementing Commerce Enrollment, they need half the resources previously required to activate merchants. Read More »

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Marketplace

Upon completion of your integration, your solution can be published to several App-Marketplaces used by members of the Platform ecosystem. Customize your keywords, your listing information, and pricing information to ensure your solution is front of mind when these sales agents are searching for specific commerce solutions. Integration, business processes, and now sales agents acting on your behalf…only through the Platform.

Empowering Sales Channels – Chase Paymentech Xpress (CPX) MarketplaceCPX Marketplace is a secured online catalogue of software company - developed payment solutions, integrated to Chase Paymentech services. Today, their sales representatives can query Xpress Marketplace- in real-time - to identify, offer, and activate a merchant for processing with the most applicable payment solution. CPX Marketplace provides all the necessary information related to selling payment solutions, in one easy-to-use website., This increases the value that Chase Paymentech can provide to merchants – enabling them to win and retain more business. Read More »

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Adoption

Your software application is now a complete commerce solution - supported by a robust ecosystem of partners and resources designed to drive full adoption from your customers. Integrated with the Managed Commerce Services Platform, your solution becomes a vital part of the end-to-end workflow your channels and customers need. Best of all, as your business grows, the Platform allows you to base key decisions on business rationale, not technology limitations – allowing you to optimize your solution with plug-and-play ease to continue to delight your channels and customers.

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