CardPointe vs. Blackthorn Payments

Our merchant processing platform features a unified and user-friendly interface that allows for effortless navigation. This payment system boasts an array of integrations and supplementary functionalities that broaden its scope, enabling you to provide added convenience to your customers. In the quest for a flawless transaction experience, this all-in-one credit card processing solution truly excels. Through this extensive portal, you can gain immediate insights into your business's payment processes or examine individual transactions for activities such as issuing refunds, canceling transactions, or re-sending and printing receipts. Moreover, you can assess customer trends by identifying new versus returning patrons and their preferred payment methods, including magstripe cards, EMV chip cards, or contactless options through mobile devices. All these sophisticated transaction management features are accessible in real-time, seamlessly linking with your POS reporting framework, which keeps your business adaptable and responsive to client demands. In addition to streamlining your operations, this powerful system equips you with essential data to improve your overall service delivery, ensuring that you can meet and exceed customer expectations with ease. This comprehensive approach not only enhances efficiency but also supports strategic decision-making as you grow your business.

Our Virtual Terminal comes equipped with an array of integrated features such as customizable fields, pre-filled data via field mappings, and buttons that are automatically deployed. It also includes a built-in reattempt mechanism that keeps track of the number of attempts, allowing you to customize your business workflows using Process Builder. With every reattempt, you can notify your customers through email to request new card information, generate tasks, create reports, and more. Moreover, roll-up fields are automatically assigned to Transaction Parents, which aids users in effortlessly tracking total amounts. In instances of refunds, retained revenue is calculated automatically for each transaction, thus streamlining operations. These capabilities significantly reduce both setup time and costs. Additionally, managing receipts becomes a breeze without any coding, as you can use Workflow or Process Builder to create specific receipts for different companies based on the logic you define through a point-and-click interface. Furthermore, with the use of custom settings and custom metadata, you can easily manage reattempt configurations, Apex validations, field population of terminals, and other features—all without requiring programming expertise. This user-friendly approach ensures that even those without technical skills can effectively utilize the system.