Fiserv (First Data) - ICICI Merchant Services vs. TSYS Payment Gateway

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.

Incentivized

None. This is the worst company I have ever worked with. We will never recommend or even think about doing business with them again.

• 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

Incentivized

• In my experience, customer service in generally helpful and easy to reach
• I think the new website is pretty cool
• In my opinion, they are very courteous as they rob you blind.

Incentivized

• [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.

• Cancelation process
• Upfront fee breakdown
• Customer service

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.

Incentivized

Clover and square were up front with all fees. [I think] TSYS will try to sell you their product saying medical credit card processing has to be HIPAA complaint. [I feel] [this] is [not] true. They will say they don't have a minimum processing fee. [I feel] [this] is also not true.

• 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.

Incentivized

• Positive impact on work flow- employees can quickly cross-reference reports to close out the day
• TSYS can be expensive. We are considering alternatives as we continue to improve our practice.
• More than one employee can be logged in at one time allowing for responsibilities to be shared to help with work flow and productivity.

Incentivized