Magazine Article | March 15, 2016

First American's Partner Program – We're With You Every Step Of The Way

By Bill Lodes, SVP, Business Development & Strategy, First American Payment Systems

Building a successful partnership is a top priority at First American Payment Systems. We make sure to invest in our partnerships by understanding the wants and needs of our customers and design a program that’s unique for each one.

With over 25 years of experience serving merchants and partners, First American recognizes the unique viewpoint in which ISVs and VARs operate and function. We keep both our ISV and VAR partners in the forefront when creating solutions and products, and help differentiate them from their competitors.

As the payments ecosystem constantly evolves, your business needs payment experts to help navigate through the twists and turns — our ISV Relationship Management team does just that. First American has a full sales and support team that is comprised of highly qualified industry-experienced individuals who act as your payments expert, as well as your business consultant. We provide marketing and sales support, training, reporting, technical integration support, and awardwinning customer service.

Offering state-of-the-art products and technology is more important than ever. We provide solutions that differentiate you in your marketplace, increase your customer acquisition and retention, and allow you to integrate payments easily. All of our solutions and products are developed in-house and always meet the highest standards of security and functionality.

We keep both our ISV and VAR partners in the forefront when creating solutions and products, and help differentiate them from their competitors.

Our ISV partners have access to the First American Partner Exchange, the latest online channel developed for ISVs, VARs, and developers to gain payment industry knowledge, product info, and support. This site is a helpful resource for ISVs and industry leaders to learn about cutting-edge technology such as EMV, recurring payments, and integrated payment solutions, and gives ISVs the necessary strategies needed in order to grow their business.

Partnering with First American Payment Systems allows you access to payments experts and leading payment integration products and tools. Our suite of products for our partners include:

  • EMV®: We have taken the guesswork out of EMV so that you don’t have to worry about it. Take advantage of our semi-integrated, seamless end-to-end EMV solution that will give your customers peace of mind.
  • 1stPayBlaze®: Incorporates payment acceptance tools via a REST API to accept online, retail, and mobile payments. This product also features secure and easy merchant onboarding tools with a simple web-hosted form that can be easily added to your website or a full merchant onboarding API.
  • 1stPayMaximizer: Quickly and easily keep credit card information up-to-date to decrease the amount of declines received. This solution updates credit card information automatically so you can remain worry-free on having to obtain new credit card information from the customer.
  • 1stPayVault®: Keep cardholder and account holder data tokenized and encrypted for the highest level of data security. Our PCI-DSS compliant encrypted storage keeps data safe and secure.
  • Recurring Payments: Process recurring payments without storing any credit card information. Flexible recurring payments empowers your customers to create a payment plan that best suits their business.

We look forward to the opportunity to create a successful partnership with you and helping you grow your business with easy payment acceptance tools.

Visit the First American Partner Exchange microsite and begin integrating payments today.

First American Payment Systems
100 Throckmorton St., Suite 1800
Fort Worth, TX 76102
(844) 265-4779
www.first-american.net/partnerexchange