Why Payment Processing Professionals

Former Virginia Beach, Virginia, business leader, William Adam Boyd has served as CEO of VeriPay since 2009. William Adam Boyd is also a member of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), a leading organization for payment processing professionals.

The ETA’s TRANSACT conference offers attendees a few advantages. Scheduled in April 2022, TRANSACT offers payments processing firms a chance to showcase their products through booth exhibits. The conference also is a networking opportunity, in addition to an opportunity to listen to industry speakers.

Attending the conference places businesses on a stage to be seen among companies from several industries. FinTech, digital currency, fraud detection, data security, mobile technologies, and software providers, among others, are a few of the sectors that attend the conference. In sum, more than 3,000 attendees come to the conference with more than 200 exhibits and over 500 companies in attendance.

Those in the payments processing industry should attend because it can generate sales leads with major decision-makers and C-level executives. It is also an opportunity to increase brand awareness on the exhibit floor. Attendees can schedule meetings with prospects and learn and engage other high-profile attendees.

About Online Payment Gateways

A business leader formerly based in Virginia Beach, William Adam Boyd guides VeriPay, VeriFund, and PCI Express. As a member of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) with over two decades of experience in the financial services sector, William Adam Boyd is well-versed in a variety of payment processing technologies as well as online payment gateways.

An online payment gateway is a system that enables merchants like e-commerce sites to accept online payments from customers. While most online payments refer to the processing of credit cards, advanced payment gateways can combine multiple payment methods, such as e-wallets or crypto payments, into a single interface, ensuring a seamless payment experience for customers regardless of their payment preferences.

During a transaction, the payment gateway checks the legitimacy of a card while preventing the leakage of a customer's personally identifiable information. Payment gateways connect to an acquiring bank, which is the final link in the verification process for credit card transactions, and the organization that holds the customer's money until settlement.

A Brief Overview of Credit Cards

The recipient of a BS in finance from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, William Adam Boyd, serves as CEO of electronic transaction processing firm VeriPay. In his capacity, William Adam Boyd oversees prepaid, debit, and credit card services provided to various United States-based companies and government agencies.

Credit cards provide quick payments, offers, discounts, and lessen the need to carry cash. General-purpose credit cards and private label credit cards are two credit card types. General-purpose cards are accepted at shopping malls, restaurants, e-commerce platforms, and ATMs to make withdrawals. Retailers issue private label cards and accept them exclusively.

Corporate credit cards, supplemental cards, and dual currency cards are other card types. Corporate employees receive access to corporate credit cards for business purchases. Foreign and dual currency cards are issued for international use. Credit card companies issue supplementary cards to the main account holder. When a person uses a supplementary card, the main cardholder receives the bill.

 

Payment Gateways vs. Payment Processors

A former Virginia resident, William Adam Boyd is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and business leader who serves as the CEO of VeriPay. Under William Adam Boyd’s guidance, VeriPay is regarded as one of the most rapidly expanding financial services and payment processing firms in the US.

Although a payment processor and a payment gateway do not correspond, they are both necessary for processing credit or debit card transactions. While the payment processor sends funds, a payment gateway creates a secure connection to encrypt a payer's credit card data.

A payment gateway is technology that securely connects information received from a payer/customer's bank to a merchant's account via the payment processor. A payment acceptance or decline is sent by the payment gateway.

Payment processors serve as a shuttle, transporting information from credit card consumers to merchant accounts, where approved payments are eventually deposited. The payment processor verifies the security of the card and facilitates the transfer of funds to the merchant account from the issuing bank.