Cut 10 seconds off your credit card authorizations! CPGateway gives you faster checkouts,
shorter lines and happier shoppers.
CPGateway is a service provided by Synchronics that enhances credit card processing for Synchronics merchants. It allows you to obtain credit card authorizations from your processor using the Internet. This method is much faster and more reliable than dial-up communications.
To authorize a charge, simply record the sale in CounterPoint in the normal way, obtaining the credit card information using a magstripe card reader (or by entering the card information manually). CounterPoint then connects to CPGateway through the Internet using TCP/IP protocol and requests the authorization. CPGateway maintains a high-speed connection to your card processor and quickly obtains the authorization and passes it back to CounterPoint. Your CounterPoint system is continuously connected to CPGateway via the Internet, and CPGateway stays connected with your processor, so you avoid the delays associated with dial-up service and modems.
Use CounterPoint's existing settlement functions to settle a batch via CPGateway. This will settle transactions authorized via CPGateway as well as any transactions authorized using dial-up. Settling via CPGateway is faster than settling via dial-up.
We understand the importance of absolutely reliable credit card processing. CPGateway is designed to stay in operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Maximum reliability is built into CPGateway-redundant (duplicate) servers, redundant Internet connections from your CounterPoint system to CPGateway, redundant communication lines to the card processors, redundant power systems, etc.
If your local Internet service fails (your ISP or communication lines go down), CounterPoint will automatically switch to dial-up mode and call your card processor directly via modem. All authorizations obtained from your processor, whether through CPGateway or via direct dial-up, are identical and can be settled in the same batch.
CounterPoint and CPGateway are designed to ensure that you will keep authorizing and settling credit cards-no matter what.
What are merchants saying about CPGateway? See for yourself:
"CPGateway rocks out loud! Authorizations (under 2 seconds) are blindingly fast. It's making me (and our customers!) giddy with delight. Our settlement occurred flawlessly in under 10 minutes. This normally takes three to four times as long for our 10 stores."
-Michael Merz, Sloat Garden Centers
"We really like CPGateway - it's so much FASTER. The best thing is the customers don't have to wait!"
-Glenda Williams, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe
"It was a SEAMLESS AND QUICK transition. The service is everything that was promised!"
-Ken Krushas, USA Baby
"CPGateway credit card processing is the single biggest improvement to our CounterPoint system since its installation in April of 1998. I sleep much better at night knowing that you (Synchronics) are behind the service."
-Stephen Hicks, Hicks Nurseries
