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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.

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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Boston, MASS,  — Inc. magazine has selected Merchant Warehouse, a premier provider of merchant accounts and credit card processing solutions, as a member of its third annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The Inc. 5000 list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent-minded entrepreneurs.

Within the Inc. 5000, Merchant Warehouse was also listed as one of the Top 100 Businesses in the Boston, MA area and New Hampshire with a reported $27.3 million in revenue in 2008 and 111.7 percent sales growth over the past three years.

“To be named to the Inc. 5000 list two years in a row is a great accomplishment,” said Henry Helgeson, co-CEO of Merchant Warehouse. “This recognition is a result of the hard work of Merchant Warehouse team by continuing to provide quality customer service and innovative products for all our merchants, agents, and Point of Sale partners. We have enjoyed an amazing past 12 months including breaking many company records for new account sales.”

Merchant Warehouse has brought significant innovation to the industry with its revolutionary solutions including MerchantWARE®, BINSmart™, MerchantWARE Mobile and MerchantWARE Transport. They have been named the ETA 2009 ISO of the Year, Business Solutions’ Best Channel Vendor for 2009 and are a two-time recipient of the Boston Business Journal Pacesetter Award.

“Savvy trend spotters and those who invest in private companies know that the Inc. 5000 is the best place to find out about young companies that are achieving success through a wide variety of unprecedented business models, as well as older private companies that are still expanding at an impressive rate,” said Inc. 5000 project manager Jim Melloan. “That’s why our list is so eagerly anticipated every year.”

The 2009 Inc. 5000 serves as a unique report card on the U.S. economy. Despite the ongoing recession, aggregate revenue among the companies on the list actually increased to $214 billion, up $29 billion from last year. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found on Inc.com.

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