Fiserv (First Data) - ICICI Merchant Services vs. GoCardless

The arena of companies to choose from to process credit/debit card payments at this level is ridiculously small. I was told which one we would be working with, and am unaware how the others compare(especially on processing fees), but I can only assume that they would be better to work with than FirstData after the overly complicated process we have gone through over the last couple years when we were told it would easily take less than a year.

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I think it's a great payment gateway for small businesses which are new to the business and looking for something low budget & an easy-to-use platform to begin accepting the payments. It does streamline the cash flow & gives good visibility to payment status but sometimes it takes 3-4 days in the reconciliation of balances which might not be suitable for businesses looking to have a quick turn-around-time of balances.

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• Provided our client with competitive rates
• Integration came with a sandbox environment, which was convenient
• Backend has a summary of all transactions and a report that can be exported

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• Reliably takes recurring payments
• Makes it easy and secure for customers to set up their direct debits with us
• Informs us when payments have failed at the customer's end
• Makes it easy to see upcoming payments that will be collected

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• [In my experience,] merchants will just follow this scam service and they will say they provide a refund to the customer but actually they will not do anything just use your money by giving unnecessary excuses.

• Reduction in fees for customers who use it for large volumes of clients
• Easier for clients to review their payment plans
• Payment sooner to our bank account

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It has a good web dashboard, you can see who has paid, who hasn’t, when payments will be taken from client and when they will arrive in the bank account

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There is no phone support, email only, and the support is slow coming. The support staff often don't read your support query properly, so you waste time having to re-explain yourself. That is the only downside of this product.

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We had previously used Elavon Merchant services. We found the provider to be more expensive and offer far less flexibility for our processing. Also, our processing was entirely manual and had to be done in the office.

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GoCardless better fit Kanopy's needs for the following reasons: (1) desire to decrease credit card payments which carry higher costs, (2) single payment solution for 12+ countries via direct debit at no fees for customers, and (3) better customer integration potential for company website portal and A/R 3rd party tool.

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• Sales have increased in the past year because I have a dedicated site to selling products that people used to have to come in person to order. First Data along with putting everything up on my website definitely makes it easy for me to automate things.

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• Customers appreciate using a bank account for payments to eliminate any credit card fees that may be implemented in the future.

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