Today more and more cities and utilities are accepting credit cards! Why? Electronic bill payment and credit card processing offers many benefits, including:

• Reduces employee expense by reducing time spent on payment processing and collection
• Timely payments and better cash-flow management
• Reduces disconnects by 50% — yes, utilities tell us our service reduces their disconnects by HALF! At $3.50 a gallon for gas, can you afford to send a truck out to disconnect them today and turn them back on 3 days later? Why not take a credit card right over the phone?
• Reduces or eliminates those irritating online banking checks — folks are tired of writing checks, so they are going online to pay their bills.
• Reduces handling costs of checks and cash — remittance processing, lockbox fees, insufficient funds charges, billing and statement mailing, and collection agency fees. Accepting credit and debit cards for all of your customer payments helps provide a way to cut handling costs and eliminate many of these ‘junk fees’ altogether.

The Neil Group offers tremendous advantages to cities and utilities looking for secure, reliable payment authorization solutions that do not require a huge investment in new hardware, software or labor. We can provide several payment solutions:

• Credit card processing that allows you to offer credit card payment via phone, mail or web as well as payment by recurring credit card / debit card / bank debit
• Online, real-time, credit card authorization and settlement payment systems that integrate with your web site and allow your customers to view their statement, make payments via funds transfer or credit card, and adjust services as they choose

Contact us today for more information at 615.846.3000 or click here to have one of our associates contact you.