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Juan “J.P.” Espinoza joins Phil today to discuss the benefits of Clearent Paylink and the benefits it brings to the market today. Contactless payments ease health and safety concerns as businesses across the country are starting to re-open.Paylink is the easiest and safest way to accept payments online. With no developer needed, no security certificate, no need to be technically savvy, Clearent’s automated boarding can have merchants accepting online payments in minutes. As simple as copy and paste, the secure URL hosted by Clearent directs customers to a payment request via email, text or even hyperlink to your existing website.Hear what Juan has to say about the different types of merchants already benefitting from this product and the great ways they are implementing it.

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In this week’s episode, Phil talks to Brett Worden from FieldEdge about navigating field services during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.While social distancing and PPE may help contractors and customers be safe and healthy when providing services in the home, there still comes a point where interaction is unavoidable. But bringing contactless payments to the field services space allows contractors to take payments in a way that is conducive to the current environment. By identifying parts of the field services industry where technology may be lacking, FieldEdge is finding innovative ways to navigate and offer a cloud-based solution with wireless communication and integrated office management including invoicing, bookkeeping, dispatching, tracking, marketing, and more.

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Clearent Connects welcomes Sam Johnson of Paytrace to talk about interchange optimization. What affects interchange and how can you optimize that? Sam discusses best practices for merchants to help lower their cost of acceptance, understanding the importance of and utilizing Level II & III data, and how Paytrace can automate that data exchange. While many merchants are seeing a reduction in cash flow due to Covid-19, identifying technology to make processing more efficient can help them can put more money in their pockets and reinvest back in their business.

“As humans, we tend to be resilient, creative and resourceful. Throughout history, We have been faced with many difficult times, and, it is important to remember that it is our resilience, creativity and resourcefulness that has allowed us to come away from these challenges smarter and stronger. I am confident that with our current circumstances, we will find a way to do the same.“Toran Brown, SPOT Systems

In this episode of Clearent Connects, we sit down with Toran Brown, Product Manager with Spot Business Systems to talk about how the coronavirus has changed the dry cleaning industry. We also review how business owners can adjust their services and communication methods to reach more customers.

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With Phil Ricci, VP of Marketing and Sales Enablement and Lauren Garrett, Director of Sales Enablement.

In this episode of Clearent Connects, we take a look at the new guidelines for the three-phase plan to re-open our communities and our businesses. What are the guidelines for moving through this process and what does that look like? We will discuss what each phase entails and help you navigate through them by finding ways to connect with your community through relationships and technology.

References mentioned in the Podcast

* Five Tips for Getting Back to Business

* Opening Up America Again

In the latest episode of Clearent Connects, we talk about how small business owners can leverage technology as they think through their post-COVID business strategy. Service industries, along with restaurants and retail, have been hard hit, but having the right technology in place can help open new revenue streams and build customer loyalty.Since EMV first appeared on the scene in the U.S., most businesses have been focused on the mandate and how it helps protect them from fraud. However, not all businesses are EMV compliant and many still have to take the card from the consumer in order to complete the purchase.Businesses and consumers are concerned about security, but these days safety is just as important. We talk about new technologies like pay at the table and contactless payments, which keep the card in the consumer’s hand at all times and in some cases, prevent them from having to touch the terminal at all.Listen in and find out how to securely process payments while keeping up with consumers’ changing preferences and the habits they are developing during social distancing.

Our goal is to help you weather the storm by providing key updates on the topics that matter to you most. From breakdowns on key legislation to tips on how to use technology to your advantage, we’re making it our mission to help you make it to the other side of the COVID-19 crisis – and come out on top! These podcasts will be both short-form single topic overviews as well as long-form discussions with some of the best minds in the payments industry.