FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES
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LinkPoint API (Application Programming Interface) is comprehensive
payment processing software for the merchant who requires a more
sophisticated payment solution. LinkPoint API gives merchants
complete control over how their payments are processed, and allows
them to build transaction processing applications that can process
payments from a Web site or from multiple Point of Sale terminals.
Ideal for either e-commerce or large-scale retail situations,
LinkPoint API uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt
and pass confidential transaction and order information directly
to the LinkPoint Secure Payment Gateway.
LinkPoint API includes modules
that calculate tax and shipping. In addition, LinkPoint API
provides sales, returns, real-time authorizations, purchasing
cards and real-time reports.
Release
Notes for the Latest Version of LinkPoint API
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WHAT MERCHANTS CAN DO WITH LINKPOINT API:
- Build a Full-Featured Online
Store
Your merchants can build a secure
solution that's as sophisticated as they need with LinkPoint API.
The merchant-configurable tax and shipping modules can automatically
calculate tax and shipping for any order.
- Build an All-in-One Retail
Solution
A large retail chain may have tens to tens of thousands
of swipe devices that they need to tie together. LinkPoint API offers
a flexible, secure solution to integrate them into one system, reliably
handling as many transactions as the merchant needs to process.
- Large-scale configurations can be
built to fit the merchant's business perfectly.
- Solutions can include as many Point-of-Sale
devices as needed.
- Process Business-to-Business
(B2B) Financial Transactions
With full level II purchasing card support, our LinkPoint
API offers a complete B2B solution that fully supports both Web transactions
and large retail chains.
If C or Java programming isn't their thing,
LinkPoint has a full suite of solutions to let Web developers to use
the technology they're comfortable with.
LINKPOINT API FEATURES AND ADVANTAGES:
| FEATURE |
ADVANTAGE |
| Fraud protection |
Provides crucial preventive
measures that allow merchants to block specific credit card numbers,
Internet protocol (IP) or Class C addresses, customer names, or domain
names. |
| Address Verification Service
(AVS) |
Helps merchants combat fraud by comparing
the consumer's billing address with the address on file with the card-issuing
bank. If the two match, merchants know there is a lower chance of
fraud. |
| Online Reports
and Account Management |
Provides real-time management
reports via your merchant's Web browser |
| E-mail notification |
Your merchants and the customer are both
notified of pending order and transaction approvals via e-mail |
| Tax Module |
This tax calculator calculates sales tax
by state and municipality. It allows your merchants to determine how
or when customers are charged sales tax for products and services
they have ordered. |
| Shipping Module |
This module calculates shipping by flat
rate or dollar amount per order. Shipping tables are configured based
on zones or the type of shipping used. This versatile module allows
merchants to determine shipping charges precisely. |
| Automatic recurring transactions |
LinkPoint API allows your merchants to
create a recurring billing system for memberships, subscriptions and
other periodic billing purposes |
| Purchasing cards |
The LinkPoint API supports the use of
purchasing cards with full Level II Purchasing Card support. |
