Pivotal Payments Overview Headquartered in both the U.S. and Canada, Pivotal Payments is a large merchant account provider that resells First Data, TSYS, and Global Payments products and services. Pivotal Payments was founded in 2003 and rapidly grew through its acquisitions of Cardex Corporation and Tangerine Payment Systems, two large Canadian credit card processors. Today, Pivotal Payments sells its […]
Read MorePayPal Here Overview PayPal Here is a mobile credit card processing app and card reader offered by PayPal. It was launched in 2012 as a way for PayPal to compete with Square’s mobile phone processing service. Before the October 2015 EMV switch, PayPal Here consisted of a free mobile app and a free headphone jack card reader that […]
Read MoreNorth American Processing Solutions Overview North American Processing Solutions is a merchant account provider that appears to be a DBA of Wholesale Merchant Processing and its related businesses. The available evidence indicates that Smart Choice Payments, First Choice Payments, and Wholesale Merchant Processing are all DBAs of North American Processing Solutions, although the exact corporate structure linking them is unclear. […]
Read MoreNational Processing Company Overview A division of Vantiv, National Processing Company (NPC) is a very large merchant account provider that has existed under various names since 1979. National Processing Company grew rapidly in the early 2000s as an affiliate of the now-defunct Retriever Payment Systems before being acquired by Vantiv in 2010. In its present form, National Processing […]
Read MoreNational Merchant Services Overview National Merchant Services (NMS) is a midsize merchant account provider that resells First Data contracts and equipment. The company claims to have served over 2,000 merchants and to have processed over $500 million in transactions. Due to its generic-sounding name, the company could potentially be confused with National Bankcard, National Bankcard Systems, National Merchant Center, […]
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