As of May 15th, 2013, Ignite Payments Universal Commerce has been authorized by our parent company, as the only office in the Pacific Northwest, to offer LevelUp smart phone payment technology for businesses who want a leg up in the race toward mobile phone payment technology. Most owners think it will cost an arm and a leg to start taking, little do they know that they can both get a reduction on their current merchant service fees with a free review, and start taking smart phone payments at less than they currently pay for credit card processing fees. For a few years now (since Spring of 2011), you've seen Google wallet cropping up in Starbucks coffee shops across the nation. This technology, customers using the Google wallet app on their Near Field Communication enable smart phones through Sprint, has been slow to catch on, mainly because of the exclusivity of the smart phone type, the carrier network needed, and the credit/debit card type requiring a Citi credit/debit card or the manual transfer of funds from your banking account to a Google account card. Other companies have created marketing/loyalty programs similar, but have limited reach, only exclusively allowing for iPhone device enablement. Now, there is a huge freedom expansion in the use and capabilities of mobile phone e-wallet technology. LevelUp is able to convert any credit/debit card into a QR code, unique to the cardholder data, and enable all Android, Apple iPhone/iPad, and Windows phone/tablet smart device users to pay participating businesses right from their smart phones, without their plastic! It's the most far reaching e-wallet payment technology on the market to date, and the least expensive to boot. It's a loyalty program, where customers get an initial acquisition credit once they register their device the first time. Depending on the business owner, that acquisition credit could be anywhere from $1-$10 or more. All employees will get a $5 bonus for signing customers up for their first use. Once customers have used the app to make payment with their phone, they are entered into a loyalty program of your choice, where, for example, they could pay $100 full price at your store, over several visits, to unlock a loyalty credit of $7.50 or more. Once they use the credit they earned by faithfully coming back and spending money at your business, a post or tweet will go out to their 'friends' or 'followers' letting them know that they just Leveled Up at your location, giving them the opportunity to download the app and become your new customer as well. 1 in 80 viewers will download the app and come to your store as a new customer. This is free viral marketing that goes out just as soon as you offer your initial acquisition credit. Your customers are advertising on your behalf, at no additional charge to you! They boast a 51% return rate of all users to the store, and on average 30% come back within 2 weeks of their first smart phone transaction. App users average a 7% lift on ticket amounts, as they are trying to reach your appointed spending threshold to unlock a small credit. And your merchant service fees for all smart device payments is included into your marketing cost, so you don't pay anything to the processor for these transactions, it's paid for you through LevelUp. Ignite Payments Universal Commerce will set this up for you free of charge, while reducing your traditional merchant services fees with a switch. Free hardware can be to your location within 2 days of approved application! If you don't have your own professional mobile app, advertising for your business and offering loyalty rewards to your regular customers AND their friends, why not try LevelUp through Ignite Payments, and experience the influx of new customers who are excited to use this seemless payment method to purchase more goods at your store? With a merchant service fee reduction, free set up and equipment, charges only after a customer reaches their credit reward, we call this a win-win-win; lowered overall payment processing fees, more revenue monthly, and acquiring new customers - loyal customers who will continue to return again and again. Ignite Payments Universal Commerce is a Portland based direct sales office for First Data Corp, Cardservice International. We specialize in bringing the best quality products and services to small business merchants nationwide, with a specialty in fast food restaurants, convenience stores, coffee shops and cafes, and setting up revenue share referral partnerships with business to business service companies. Reach out to us today at sales@ignitepaymentsucommerce.com, or call (503) 422-6889.
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