Mike has a Diploma in Architecture from Witwatersrand Technikon in South Africa. A Senior Level Executive with expertise in business development. Formally, Director of Project Development with IPC.

He is a dynamic business developer and leader with an impressive background elevating assigned units to achieve market share expansion, revenue growth, and development of major accounts with multimillion-dollar organizations. Combine advanced business acumen and more than 18 years of leadership experience to develop and launch highly successful sales and marketing strategies. Expertly expand business into new markets on national and international levels, establishing highly productive networks to achieve top product performance within challenging business environments.

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This is one of the many features of the Webtelligence Integrated Webstore for Sage ERP Accpac.

WEBTELLIGENCE Connect Highlights – View Accpac & Web account activity, Pay open invoices, Simplify order processes, Manage inventory, Update contact info, Print documents and more…

Remember, any data available in Accpac can be made available on the Web with WEBTELLIGENCE Connect.

Contact us for more information and be sure to check out the notesalert section of our website for product information: www.north49.com/n49-products/notes-alert

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Add some credit card processing muscle to your
Sage Accpac ERP

Paytelligence is a powerful, easy to use, credit card processing module developed by North49 to add electronic payment processing functionality to Sage Accpac ERP.

With Paytelligence, you can process credit card and ACH payments on your orders easily, seamlessly, and confidently. When a customer requests to make payment by credit card or ACH, you can enter this information directly within Order Entry. We have seamlessly integrated powerful credit card processing tools directly to the Order Entry and Accounts Receivable modules.

Paytelligence also has a powerful Recurring Settlement function that allow you to mass settle outstanding Accounts Receivable invoices based on very flexible selection criteria. The Recurring Settlement function allows you to save these multiple mass settlement criteria for use on a regular basis.

Paytelligence has powerful auditing tools for running inquiries and reports on all current and historical transactions, which can be filtered by customer, card number, document number, transaction type, and transaction date

Would you like to see a demo of Paytelligence?

Call us and schedule a demo today!
604-282-6000. Ask for Rob McKay.

If you have any questions about Paytelligence, Webtelligence, Notes Alert or other North49 products, please call us. We are available to answer all your questions about our Sage Accpac ERP integrated solutions.

Don’t miss next Friday, more Paytelligence.

And this Wednesday, we’ll have more about Webtelligence.

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I love processing credit card payments in Order Entry…

Hey everyone, I just got back from a short trip to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Our nation’s capital.  And I noticed how almost every purchase I made was with my credit card.  I have a rewards credit card, and I try to use it with EVERY purchase that I make.  There were a few small stores and restaurants where I was unable to use my credit card.  And the first thing I thought was “What’s wrong with these people, don’t they want my business?”

If your company is not yet receiving credit card payments, this is definitely something that you need to look into.  If you are currently receiving credit card payments, but it is not integrated into your Sage Accpac Order Entry, you need to look at Paytelligence ERP Payment Processing.

Would you like more information about Paytelligence?

Call us and ask for Rob McKay.
604-282-6000.

If you have any questions about Webtelligence, Paytelligence, Notes Alert or other North49 products, please call us. We are available to answer all your questions about our Sage Accpac ERP integrated solutions.

Don’t miss next Wednesday, more Webtelligence.

And this Friday, we’ll have more about Paytelligence.

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If you have not in some fashion automated the process of accepting payments from customers, you may be surprised about the true costs. What do you pay employees that handle payments? How many hours each week do you have employees sorting, handling, tallying, and performing data entry? Are you physically delivering your check payments or manually processing credit card payments? Is it cheap? Is it cost effective?

To help you assess the costs of accepting credit cards manually and in an automated fashion, we have included on this web site a Return on Investment Calculator. The calculator compares the process of accepting credit card payments using traditional manual methods to accepting credit cards in an automated fashion using Paytelligence.

In summary, the cost of your payments must include not only the actual cost per transaction (transaction fee or discount rate), but also the real numbers you spend for labor and the time you wait to receive the funds. While many of these can be considered “cost-of-businesses expenses (labor costs, settlement times and bank fees), if there was a way to reduce or eliminate these expenses (and thereby increase profits), would you make the change?

Many studies show that handling a single payment using traditional, manual methods takes from 10 to 15 minutes.  You’re looking at $3 to $5 per payment, not including costs that may be incurred due to data entry errors.

If you use Sage Accpac ERP, Paytelligence is the answer to automating the process of accepting payments.  Paytelligence can improve the process of accepting payments by a factor of four to six.  Any business processing as few as 200 payments per month would see a quick payback from an investment in Paytelligence.

Would you like to see a demo of Paytelligence?

Call us and schedule a demo today!
604-282-6000.  Ask for Rob McKay.

If you have any questions about Paytelligence, Webtelligence, Notes Alert or other North49 products, please call us.  We are available to answer all your questions about our Sage Accpac ERP integrated solutions.

Don’t miss next Friday, more Paytelligence.

And this Wednesday, we’ll have more about Webtelligence.

If there are any features that you want to be discussed in future blogs please leave them in the comments.  And don’t forget to subscribe to our blogs with the RSS feature.

Have a great Friday!

What is the real cost of manually processing credit cards and checks?

In most businesses the process of accepting payments from customers remains a largely manual process, and in many cases a process where multiple individuals are involved. This is true of payments made by check, credit card, wire transfer or even cash.

To understand the real cost of accepting a payment we need to look at the payments from when they are received to the time the funds clear the bank. This process can be divided into three steps: accepting the payment, reconcilement, and preparing/delivering the deposit.

Accepting Payment:

Accepting a payment requires considerable employee time. If a payment is by check, someone has to receive the mail, deliver it to the accounting department where someone will open an envelope and then must match that payment to an invoice. If a payment is by credit card, someone will have to take the customers credit card number (a potential security risk), key the credit card number, expiry date and amount of the payment in to a credit card terminal (physical terminal or Internet based Virtual Terminal), and then write down the Authorization number received.

Reconciling the Payment:

Once a payment has been received, it needs to be reconciled with an invoice in the accounting system. In some cases this process may be preformed by a different person than the individual that accepted the payment to begin with, opening up the potential for inevitable and costly data-entry errors. If the payment is by credit card, a capture or settlement function needs to be performed to inform the credit card networks to move funds from the customer’s credit card to your merchant account – in most cases this is another manual process.

Depositing the Payment:

Once a payment has been received and reconciled, funds need to be deposited in a bank. For check payments, someone will generally have to physically go to a bank and deposit funds. Payments via credit cards have the advantage of an electronic transfer of funds from a merchant account to an associated deposit account.

So far, we can see that these manual processes are time consuming, next Friday we’ll talk about how Paytelligence can cut down on time and money spent when accepting payments.

Would you like to see a demo of Paytelligence?

Call us and schedule a demo today!
604-282-6000.  Ask for Rob McKay.

If you have any questions about Paytelligence, Webtelligence, Notes Alert or other North49 products, please call us.  We are available to answer all your questions about our Sage Accpac ERP integrated solutions.

Don’t miss next Friday, more Paytelligence.

And this Wednesday, we’ll have more about Webtelligence.

If there are any features that you want to be discussed in future blogs please leave them in the comments.  And don’t forget to subscribe to our blogs with the RSS feature.

Have a great Friday!