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Operational Programs & Services
Electronic Payment Services

Gift and Specialty Cards
First Data

Gift and Specialty Cards

Gift Card
It’s as easy as 1-2-3 to start your own Gift Card program and offer a whole new way to increase sales, build your brand, improve customer service and manage your finances.  Customers love Gift Cards because they make gift giving easier and recipients feel they’ve received a very thoughtful gift and are free to decide what they want at your store.

Learn More: Click here to download more information on our Gift Card solution (.pdf 188 kb)

Payroll Card
Each year, employers spend countless hours and considerable cost printing and distributing payroll checks. The overhead and overall administrative costs associated with paper checks can be overwhelming — whether it is due to lost or fraudulent checks, paper check reconciliation or escheatment.

To help address this dilemma, Money Network®, a strategic partner of First Data, offers the Money Network Everywhere Pay™ Card — a PIN-secured debit payroll card that is convenient, safe and easy for employees to use. It encourages increased direct deposit participation without interruption to your current payroll process.

Learn More: Click here to download more information on Payroll Cards (.pdf 183 kb)

STAR Gift Card Products

STAR® branded gift card gift card solution that can be used inside or outside of the selling merchant’s business.  Gift card spending is expected to grow significantly in the coming years, but consumers are increasingly demanding greater flexibility from the gift cards they buy and use. In response to these customer demands, First Data has developed an open loop STAR®-branded gift card product that can be used inside or outside of your business. The STAR Gift Card is issued by MetaBank.

Over the next few years, it’s predicted that open loop cards will rapidly gain usage and popularity. Consumers are increasingly demanding more flexible payment options and merchants need a complimentary product to their existing closed network stored value card.

Click here to download more information on the STAR Gift Card Products. (.pdf 131 kb)

CONNECTPAY

Enabling most any payment, on any device, to be authenticated, authorized and settled to any customer account, the CONNECTPAY? solution can enhance your new or existing loyalty or membership programs with a customer’s choice of payment.

Innovative solutions from First Data make it easier and more convenient for consumers to pay for their purchases while enabling you to grow and differentiate your business. Customers in your loyalty or membership programs can link to their preferred payment account for secure and even faster checkout.

Offering convenience to customers, building loyalty and making your business distinct in the marketplace require continuous adaptation to evolving customer demand. Driven by technology, new pricing or business models, a challenging economy, and savvy consumers, implementing new methods of payment are possible and active in the market today.

Click here to download more information on the CONNECTPAY Products. (.pdf 139 kb)

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