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EventPay! is one stop shopping through us.
No set up fee. You will need to set up a separate merchant account through CardPointe – but the funds from transactions will be directly deposited into your organization’s existing bank account. We start the merchant agreement process for your organization and then your contact person receives an email from CardPointe with a link to continue filling out the merchant agreement and signing online. Someone in your organization will have to be the contact person and they will need to submit their own social security number as part of the signing process. This sometimes makes people uncomfortable, but it is a federal banking requirement. The person signing the agreement must be a real person and a US citizen. Usually the contact person will be you or the business manager.
Costs:
$10 per month statement fee for the months the account is active. This is typically three months; the month before, the event month and then the following month to withdraw the processing fees. So plan on $30 minimum. You have the option to cancel the account, after the fees have been withdrawn. Or contact us and we'll submit a cancel request.
- Swipers are ordered by you once your merchant is open through the Cardpointe MarketPlace. They are yours to keep year after year. We suggest one swiper for each 100 guests but you can purchase as many as you like. At the event the swipers must be connected to a Windows 7, 8 or 10 computer that has installed the free EventPay! app that we provide. These swiping computers do not need the internet at your event, nor do they need to be connected to each other. So you can have them at more than one location in your venue. They do not need to be the same computers you use for Auction! data entry at the event.
Processing fees: 3.5% for MasterCard, Visa and Discover, 3.75% for American Express.
There are no other fees associated with using EventPay! for credit card processing at the event.
You will need to purchase Premium Features to enable the EventPay! menu in the Auction! software if you do not already have the feature enabled. This is a one-time purchase and is available year after year as long as you keep technical support in force.
You will also have the ability to handle Point of Sale processing through the merchant account through CardPointe. You do not use Point of Sale at your event. The transaction charges would be the same as for the event listed above and you would need to continue to pay the $10 per month statement fee if you want to do this. We have a few customers who are using the swipers year round for point of sale at the office for transactions and fundraising activities that are not related to purchases at the auction event. When the swipers are used for point of sale, it has nothing to do with Auction! but since you have the merchant account through CardPointe, you can use them this way as long as the merchant account stays active.
Procedures:
- Securely capture credit cards at check-in
- Retrieve encrypted credit card data from EventPay! app to Auction! software to mark guests as Quick Checkout
- Post event upload and process credit cards from Auction! desktop edition.
Please visit our website for additional information: http://auctionsystems.com/product-eventpay
A printable flyer is available here: http://auctionsystems.com/CustomerArea/ProductPdfs/EventPay!Flyer_Landscape.pdf
EventPay! tutorials are located at the bottom of the list here: http://auctionsystems.com/OnDemandWebTraining/V4_Welcome.htm
Yes, EventPay! credit card processing is fully PCI compliant and secure.