Much to everyone’s surprise, paper checks are alive and well. In the U.S, we still processed 19.4 billion paper checks in 2017 for a total of $23.3 Trillion dollars. But managing the risk associated with point of sale (“POS”) check acceptance and the cost of physical deposits can be time consuming and expensive. SPS can help reduce your risk and processing costs associated with these payments through several SPS solutions including verification, guarantee, check conversion, and remote deposit.
Using a point of sale (“POS”) terminal or an integrated POS system, SPS can review and underwrite check payments in real time reducing or eliminating any bad check expense and provide peace of mind in accepting checks. Your sales associate enters the customer's driver's license information into the point-of-sale credit card terminal and/or slides the check through a check reader to capture the bank account data. In less than one second, SPS authorizes the check from its database of millions of records, accessing both local and national negative files of unpaid checks. SPS has access to over 70% of all U.S. bank accounts in this process to significantly reduce any risk associated with accepting the check as payment!. SPS offers this product as a verification only where the merchant assumes risk of any returned item, or fully guaranteed where SPS assumes 100% of the liability if the item is returned. The set-up process is quick and easy with the full support of SPS technical support team assisting in the process.
The process for check conversion leverages the same databases for verification and guarantee but also converts the check to an electronic ACH payment. Check items are scanned via a POS device and the electronic information is sent to SPS for risk management review, conversion to an electronic payment, and settlement directly to the merchant’s bank account in as little as three business days. SPS can also assume all the risk associated with these transactions, if requested. No more deposits or trips to the bank. And the process is safe, convenient, protects consumer’s privacy, and best of all is cost effective.
Increase sales and customer satisfaction by allowing your customers to spread their payments out over time. SPS assumes all repayment liability and your business receives the sales proceeds in three business days.
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SPS supports over 1,000 Grocery stores and Convenience Stores for Electronic Check Conversion.