Pocket Verifier Professional

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List of FAQs
	What is Pocket Verifier Professional?
	Why would I want to accept credit cards?
	What is BOOSTER, and why do I need it?
	Who can use this service?
	What is a Magnetic Card Reader, and why would I want to use one?
	What is the Swiped Rate?
	What is your Pre-Approved Merchant Account?
	Will I be approved?
	What about High Risk Businesses?
	Can I sign up without a business checking account?
	Can I sign up without a business name?
	I just opened (or am going to open) a checking account. Can I use my temporary checks?
	What does the $24.95 monthly fee include?
	Is this real, Why do others charge $200 to $500 to set up a Merchant Account?
	I already have a merchant account, can I just use it for Pocket Verifier Professional?
	What credit cards can I accept with this system?
	Now that I have signed up, what happens?
	When do I receive my money?

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What is Pocket Verifier Professional? Pocket Verifier Professional is a Merchant Terminal Program that uses your PDA's Internet connection to authorize and transfer funds. Pocket Verifier Professional is fully compatible with almost any PDA, with an Internet connection. Pocket Verifier Professional allows you to accept electronic checks as well, saving trips to the bank, and long delays waiting for the mail. Its built in transaction database and manager allows you to review and organize your sales in dozens of different ways, as well as perform credits and voids instantly. The ability to store and resubmit transactions is useful for times when you are out of range, or your customer needs to call his card issuer to increase his limit. The unique on-screen signature capture and receipt printing capabilities allow the user to totally automate the transaction. The printed Quick-start, along with the Product Guide, and unique PC-screen video give the user, experienced or novice, easy access to all of the functions of the program. Bundled with a pre-approved, flat-rate merchant account, with a lower price than most wireless plans, and zero up-front costs, this package is truly a complete solution for the businessperson in the field who wants to increase their business by accepting credit cards.

Why would I want to accept credit cards? For any business, credit cards give your customers time to pay, and funds to pay with. They allow impulse purchasing, and credit customers tend to purchase more premium items/brands, or larger quantities. In all respects, the ability to accept credit cards increases the ability of businesspeople to make sales and profits. By enabling business to accept credit cards not only in their office, but anywhere their business takes them, and at a fraction of the traditional entry cost for terminal equipment, Pocket Verifier Professional is primed to work in not only into the small / home/ mobile business market, but can be implemented by large organizations with mobile sales forces, such as taxi/limousine services, pizza/food delivery, towing/roadside assistance, and messenger/delivery services.

	What is BOOSTER, and why do I need it? Booster is the run-time package from our development platform, AppForge. It allows us to leverage the tremendous power of the Microsoft Visual Studio on the Sony Ericsson platform. It is included free with our package.
	Who can use this service? This product is perfect for all of the U.S. businesses, that perform any sales or service out of the office. From the gardener who mows your lawn, to the nationwide chain that delivers your pizza, Pocket Verifier Professional allows individuals and corporations to deploy inexpensive devices that multiply their sales, and increase their cash flow. From now on, whenever you take a taxi, call a locksmith, have your broken window repaired, or have your drains unclogged, you will see the opportunity this product represents.
	What is a Magnetic Card Reader, and why would I want to use one? A magnetic Card reader is a device that can attach to many PDA's, that actually 'reads' the information off the magnetic stripe on the back of all credit cards. We have a reader, called Pocket Merchant, which includes a thermal printer. When you use a card reader, all of the cardholder information is entered for you, making the transaction much, much faster. Best of all, when you use a credit card reader, the bank gives you a better discount rate. This is called the 'swiped' rate.
	What is the Swiped Rate? When you use a card reader, the bank knows that you have the credit card in your hand, have checked the cardholder's identification (you are required to do this), and the cardholder is present to give you a signature (you need to do this too). This makes for a much safer transaction, for both you and the bank. In return they offer a much better discount rate on your transaction, 1.69% instead of the standard 2.2%. You are probably asking why you cannot get this better rate if you enter the data yourself. The reason is that unless the data encoded on the magnetic stripe is transmitted to the bank at the time of the transaction (information that does not appear on the face of the card), they cannot be absolutely certain that you have the card in hand.

What is your Pre-Approved Merchant Account? Pocket Verifier Professional owners are pre-approved for their Mobile Merchant Account, provided they have a U.S. based checking account (personal or business), Have no liens, judgments, or collections, and are not in the Terminated Merchant File (TMF or MATCH).

Will I be approved? Accounts are approved with the qualifications stated above. Your account will go active once we receive your hardcopy application with signatures, voided check from the account we will be depositing into, and evidence of business (business card, permit, tax certificate, web address, or similar).  High monthly transaction amounts (with no upper limit), are approved commensurate with the applicant's credit history.

What about High Risk Businesses? Visa requires that certain high risk businesses (casino, travel, and others), register their businesses with them. Visa will require an annual $500 registration fee. This fee is directly between you (as a merchant), and Visa. We will handle the paperwork for you, with no additional fee, but we have no control over this requirement. Some new businesses may be asked to have a small percentage (3%-10%) of their deposits held for a short time (2 to 5 days) on a rotating basis to cover chargebacks unforeseen by a new merchant.

Can I sign up without a business checking account? Yes. The processor has agreed to allow MerchantAnywhere.com members to process with a personal bank account and can change the bank account at any time by simply faxing a voided check to MerchantAnywhere.com from the new bank account. There is a small ($15) charge to change your checking account once your account is set up.

Can I sign up without a business name? Yes. Your registered Legal business name, will be your name as it appears on your social security card, but you can have your merchant account set up as "Your Name Enterprises" or "Your Name and Associates". Whatever name you use as your DBA Name, corporate or otherwise, make sure that your customers know that your DBA name will appear on their credit card billing statements.

I just opened (or am going to open) a checking account. Can I use my temporary checks? NO! However, when you go to the bank to open your account (and many businesses open an account just for their credit card processing), get a letter from the bank manager, stating the account name, account number, and the bank's transit (ABA or Bank Routing) number on the Bank's letterhead. You can include that in your application instead of waiting for your imprinted checks.

What does the $24.95 monthly fee include? The $24.95 covers everything except the 2.2% credit card charge and thirty cents ($0.30) per transaction charge. When you sign up for the account, it will include access to Transaction Central in order to give you access to your merchant account reports. There are NO equipment costs, NO application fees, NO set-up fees, NO down payments, NO statement fees, NO monthly minimums, NO leases, NO cancellation fees, and NO time commitment (Other processors typically charge a costly set up fee of about $300.00, a statement fee of $10.00 to $12.00, and a monthly access/gateway fee of about $30.00 dollars. When you add up all the charges, it can be very costly).

Is this real, Why do others charge $200 to $500 to set up a Merchant Account? Traditionally, merchant account providers pay a referral fee those those that refer them. Many on the Internet, now pay as much as $250 for a referral! Application and setup charges are used to pay these fees. Pocket Verifier Professional is being sold nationwide. We do not pay any referral fees, ever. With thousands of packages, bringing qualified merchants to us, we were able to pre-negotiate this ZERO ENTRY COST merchant account, with a FLAT RATE!

I already have a merchant account, can I just use it for Pocket Verifier Professional? In order toachieve all of the functionality within Pocket Verifier Professional, specialized programs and servers have been implemented at our processor. Without the support of these servers and programs, Pocket Verifier Professional could not offer all the features and functionality that it does. If you are currently processing with another merchant account, have significant processing volumes, and are getting a better rate than 2.2% keyed / 1.69% swiped, please call our offices.

What credit cards can I accept with this system? Visa and MasterCard are automatically approved. MerchantAnywhere.com will also apply for (at no additional cost), American Express, and Discover merchant accounts, although everyone is not automatically approved. Amex and Discover will set their own rates with you directly, and we have no influence or control over these. In addition, Discover has recently begun to charge it's new merchants $25 upon acceptance. This is a direct charge from Discover, and we have no control over this. Discover has also informed us that they now require businesses to be at least two years old for acceptance.

Now that I have signed up, what happens? We begin processing your application as soon as you enter it online. Since we are dealing with FDIC Insured banks, banking regulations apply, and some of the final steps cannot occur without your physical application, with pen-and-ink signature. Your account is generally completed and ready to use within two business days of the receipt of your signatures.

When do I receive my money? In most cases, funds are available in the checking account you specified within two to three business days after your transactions are batched (reconciled). We will automatically process your batch for you every business banking day, so you can't forget!. This can save you time, and help you get your funds faster.

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