Payzone and Barclaycard agree new payment services deal for small businesses

March 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Payzone and Barclaycard Global Payment Acceptance have today announced that they will work together to develop a new card acceptance service for small businesses in the UK.

The new service will enable Payzone to provide card acceptance services to small and growing businesses at the most competitive prices, with a simple and rapid set up process.  The agreement will mean that any of Payzone’s 20,000 small business customers will be able to start accepting MasterCard and Visa card payments within 24 hours of their application being approved.

For Payzone’s customers in the ‘convenience’ sector, adding card acceptance to their existing Payzone terminal is now even easier and faster.  Accepting cards on the Payzone terminal means no additional telephone line is needed, saving costs, and less counter space is used, creating valuable additional selling space.

Card Acceptance is a fast growing part of Payzone’s services and even businesses that are not in Payzone’s traditional ‘convenience’ sector can now benefit from an improved  ‘card acceptance only’ service.  This service already delivers the same compelling benefits of ease of use and competitive costs to thousands of businesses in the ‘general retail’ sector such as hairdressers, car accessory shops, restaurants, hotels and clothing stores.

Paulette Rowe, Managing Director of Barclaycard Global Payment Acceptance said: “Barclaycard is a trusted partner to many businesses and this agreement will help Payzone deliver better and faster services to their customers.”

Steve Almond, Head of Card Acceptance at Payzone, said: “This agreement means businesses choosing Payzone can start accepting cards quickly, so whether our customers are starting to accept cards for the first time, or want to save money by switching from their current provider, now is a really great time to talk to us at Payzone.”

About Payzone (http://www.payzone.co.uk  and http://www.payzonecards.co.uk)

Payzone UK is a leading consumer payments network, with over 20,000 payment terminals located in local convenience sector retailers across the UK.  

Payzone UK implements and operates payment services including prepaid mobile telephone top-up, credit and debit card processing, utility and bill payments, money transfer and stored value solutions.  In 2010 Payzone extended its credit and debit card acceptance services to the general retail market.  Payzone now enables thousands of small and growing business of all types to benefit from accepting credit and debit card payments at the most competitive prices using the latest generation of card acceptance terminals.

About Barclaycard

Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a leading global payment business which helps consumers, retailers and businesses to make and accept payments flexibly, and to access short-term credit when needed.

The company is one of the pioneers of new forms of payments and is at the forefront of developing viable contactless and mobile payment schemes for today and cutting edge forms of payment for the future.  It also issues credit and charge cards to corporate customers and the UK Government.  Barclaycard partners with a wide range of organisations across the globe to offer their customers or members payment options and credit.

In addition to the UK, Barclaycard operates in the United States, Europe and Africa.