On December 14th, 2009, The Green Sheet featured a brief on Merchant Warehouse’s record month in October 2009. The piece highlights the 3,332 applications that the company collected, the most in its history.

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As companies look for new and innovative ways to better manage their businesses, Investor’s Business Daily showcased the co-CEO model that Merchant Warehouse embraces.

IBD reporter, Gary Stern, spoke with Merchant Warehouse’s Scott Zdanis, co-founder and co-CEO, about how this model works for the company. To read the online article in its entirety, click here.

Since consumers tend to turn to their credit cards to pay for holiday gifts and celebrations, Merchant Warehouse provided consumers and merchants alike a list of tips and best practices to ensure their credit card information is protected against data thieves. Merchant Warehouse’s tips appeared on the Fast Casual publication’s web site.

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In the November Issue of Business Solutions magazine, the Merchant Warehouse and PointOS partnership is highlighted in the Channel News & Analysis section. The brief describes the integration of PointOS Professional with Merchant Warehouse’s MerchantWARE Payment Gateway as a benefit to small businesses and their customers by providing them with advanced functionality and increased security.

Henry Helgeson, Merchant Warehouse Co-CEO, is featured in the November issue of Transaction Trends for providing his insight into Data Driven Merchant Retention. Helgeson states how important it is for ISOs to leverage the vast amount of data at their disposal to look for trends that point to imminent merchant departure. Helgeson also stressed the importance of a good CRM solution and properly analyzing the information that it provides.

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On October 22nd, 2009, ISO & Agent Weekly featured a summary of the Aldelo and Merchant Warehouse latest integration in the “Vendor Briefs” section of the issue. The piece emphasized how their partnership is addressing data security concerns in the hospitality industry.

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Aiming to provide added security to its POS systems for the hospitality industry, Aldelo’s partnership with Merchant Warehouse has advanced by integrating its Aldelo EDC solution with the MerchantWARE Payment Gateway. This newly integrated solution encrypts track data at the point-of-swipe and will provide comfort to merchants and consumers knowing that cardholder data is secure. The news was featured in QSR Magazine and the publication’s website.

To read the news in detail, click on the following QSR Magazine and QSR Web links.

MerchantWARE® Payment Gateway™solution enhances encryption and cost savings to next generation EDC POS system

Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, today announced a new partnership with Aldelo, a leading provider of low cost, feature rich and easy to use restaurant Point Of Sale (POS) software solutions for the hospitality industry. The partnership is designed to effectively help hospitality organizations address the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s (PCI SSC) mission to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud through increased controls around data and its exposure to compromise.

For commercial organizations, data security is not only a corporate mandate, it’s the law. Losing sensitive data by way of natural disasters or physical theft can have severe consequences on a company, possibly crippling an entire organization. While there are many different security mechanisms, data encryption is perhaps the most effective in regard to protecting confidential information. The partnership between Merchant Warehouse and Aldelo addresses this timely subject matter, adding additional lines of security to the next generation of Aldelo’s EDC POS system through the full integration with Merchant Warehouse’s secure MerchantWARE® Payment Gateway™, which encrypts credit card data at the point of swipe through the MagTek MSR Card Reader.

Merchant Warehouse’s MerchantWARE solution encrypts the data at the card reader, completely eliminating this threat. With MerchantWARE, merchants never actually store or transmit any unencrypted credit card information. By taking this one simple step, small- and mid-sized merchants will eliminate the sensitive data that five of the 12 most intensive and costly PCI DSS requirements seek to protect.

Data Encryption Offers Merchants and Consumers Peace of Mind

Most corporations implement multiple forms of security as a first line of defense by using hardware solutions such as routers and firewalls. Unfortunately, when attackers find a way to penetrate this first line, data encryption steps up and helps to ensure that information can’t be viewed. When a card is swiped through the MagTek MSR Card Reader, that information is immediately encrypted and processed through Merchant Warehouse’s secure server. In effect, the credit card’s track data, highly sought-after information by identity thieves, has been reduced to a jumble of numbers and letters, unidentifiable should that information fall into the wrong hands.

“This partnership will add a level of security to our systems that is unmatched in the payment processing industry,” said Harry Tu, CEO of Aldelo Systems Inc. “The MerchantWARE solution integrates seamlessly with our EDC POS system and will give merchants the benefit of knowing their data and their customers is secure at all times.”

Merchant Warehouse’s secure payment gateway provides merchants and partners with a unique, value-added payment processing solution that leverages familiar, user-friendly interfaces for all types of business needs and environments.

On September 24, 2009, Merrin Muxlow of Bmighty.com suggested the MerchantWARE Mobile application as one of the better payment processing solutions for small to mid-sized merchants.

The article, “Credit-Card Processing Options for SMBs”, stresses how important and beneficial it is for businesses to accept credit cards and suggests ways for businesses to leverage their card processing options to help realize those benefits.

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On September 23, 2009, Troy Dreier of Datamation.com ranked Merchant Warehouse’s MerchantWARE Mobile payment processing application #19 out of the top 50 free iPhone applications available for business travelers.

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