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Payment Processing & Outsourcing



Processing credit card payments in house is becoming expensive, cumbersome and takes away focus from what retailers do best - selling!
Investment in a PCI DSS Compliant payment processing system and the 24/7 team required to support such systems is not the only way forward and a careful consideration of compliance cost versus outsourcing costs is a must for any merchants that require PCI DSS.

Blackfoot can offer expert advice on the following options:

  • End to end encryption
  • Tokenization
  • Getting around the insecurities of APACS 50/29b
  • Removing pre-authorization environments from scope
  • Transparent web payment gateways


    • From 5 pence per transaction, payment outsourcing makes sense for smaller Level 2, 3 and 4 merchants, or even Level 1 merchants that would rather concentrate on core business and divert valuable technical resource to maintaining mission critical retail systems.