So says Gino Kauzlarich, President & CEO of MerchantService.com, a
pioneering provider of electronic commerence and trasaction processing related services.
"The new Check 21 technology is here now where we can quickly scan a check at both the back office or point of sale
on a low-cost scanner, screen it against a national "bad check writter" database, and if it clears - electronically deposit it into your merchant checking account as soon as the next day, without you ever having to take it to the bank." Mr. Kauzlarich says. "It tremendously lowers the risk of taking a bad check, thereby enabling merchant's to make more sales. In addition, we have an optional Gurantee Program that eliminates NSF checks altogether that costs roughly the same as taking a credit cards"

He notes that checks are still the preferred method of payment
for many people, particularly older Baby Boomers. "Probably 60% of the older Baby
Boomers still primarily use checks instead of credit cards as their perferred method of payment," he says, "compared with
hardly any who are under 35 years of age.
"So if you don't accept checks, you're shutting out a huge part of the population and turning away business you may otherwise enjoy," Mr. Kauzlarich says.

The executive says his company will explain the new check services for Back Office Conversion, Accounts Receiveable Conversion, Check 21 (including settlement services for Corporate checks and Money Orders) and at the Point-of-Sale for comsumer payments, Contractual Repetitive Billing, Pre Paid Deposits, Representment Checks, Over The Phone and Over The Web checks, Archiving Only and Verification Only programs available to every qualified merchant or other business upon request.

MerchantService.com is headquartered at 373 Interstate Blvd.,
Sarasota 34240. email info@merchantservice.com. Telephone 888/288-3816.


MerchantService.com is committed to integrity and excellence in
service while providing leading-edge transactional processing and
business management solutions to merchants through a consultative team
approach. It has the ability to support all its products and services
nationwide. The company specializes in merchant profitability. And "we
keep our merchants out of the dark with zero hidden costs, zero hidden
fees, zero hooks and zero rate increases," says the company. "We have
yet to increase our merchants' rates since we started in 1995," the
company reports.