Trade payment solutions

With more than 75 percent of Canada's electronic payment transactions conducted on its network, Bell Canada is the national leader in reliable communications for business, offering wired and wireless voice and data services, high speed and wireless Internet access, IP broadband services, e-business solutions and satellite television services.

To deliver exceptional customer service, it's important to make merchants' and their customers' payment process as convenient, simple and efficient as possible.

Bell has developed a suite of payment solutions that are managed within the umbrella of an intelligent payments gateway, which determines what payment methods will be offered to a customer for each online transaction.

Our payment solutions provide a single resource for reviewing all payment transactions, whether for call centre support or ongoing payment cost analysis. Additionally, the gateway's repository generates reconciliation reporting that facilitates the management of customer accounts and the receivables process.

Our solutions give companies the ability to improve the management of receivables from their customers by allowing pre-approved debit, Interac online and credit card transactions to be processed immediately as payments are received, via a Web site or call centre and through the integration into the organization's existing back end systems as required.

Our suite of payment solutions:

• Enables easy integration of payment functionality with internal systems
• Reduces financial risks
• Improves operational effectiveness
• Facilitates interaction/integration with external payment processors
• Facilitates the adoption of new payment methods

Bell provides fully managed turnkey solutions for secure payment enablement, with full North American coverage and a single access point to the Canadian and American banking systems.

Our infrastructure is fully redundant and scales easily as transaction volumes grow. It improves customer and sales information management, speeds up the payment process and integrates processing and reconciliation. It is highly flexible, with the ability to operate as a standalone operation or be integrated with existing processes and applications.