Government agencies and large corporations are providing their buyers with purchasing cards -- a special form of credit card -- to reduce paper work on routine purchases. Eventually, they insist their suppliers accept credit cards.

Dollars that Make Sense

Credit cards reduce paperwork for supplier and customer alike. So your customers that use these cards will be reducing your cost for billing and collection. Payment is not only certain, but the funds from credit card transactions are electronically deposited in your account 2 to 3 business days after you charge the card.

There is a Difference

Credit cards were first used for face-to-face sales in retail locations. Eventually mail and phone-order businesses started using them as a more certain means of receiving payment. With this procedure, customer and supplier are related only through the credit card. So the chargeback process has become the means for customers to redress problems. That has led to a high rate of chargebacks from card-not-present sales. Therefore, the industry has special precautions to protect themselves from the risk of processing for mail order merchants.

Business-to-business sales are typically phone or mail-order transactions. But your business is completely different from mail-order merchants. Your long-standing personal relationships with your customers eliminate the need for mediation.

The nature of your business eliminates the card-not-present risk and entitles you to special treatment. At Central Coast Processing, you get it.

Our Business-to-Business Program

The difference between your customers and consumers extends beyond dispute resolution. Your customers need to account for their purchases in detail. So users of purchasing cards expect level 2 data -- a customer-supplied accounting code and sales tax data on their credit card bill. Our business-to-business terminal software gives you the ability to provide level 2 data.

Putting it all Together

Many of your best customers are starting to use purchase cards to reduce costs. That gives you a strong incentive -- keeping valued customers -- to start accepting credit cards as a means of payment.

That brings you other benefits: improved cash flow, reduced billing and collection costs, and a means for your COD customers to improve their cash flow.

Call us and Compare. Then join the family of Central Coast Processing Merchants.