LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2013) - AlfaPeople, a premier Microsoft Dynamics AX reseller, and Shift4 Corporation, the world's largest independent payment gateway, today announce a new partnership that pairs AlfaPeople's retail expertise with Shift4's industry-leading payment technologies.
"Shopping has evolved to become a truly multichannel experience for today's shoppers who are digital, social, mobile, enabled, and informed," said AlfaPeople's Director of Sales Randy Cole. "We needed a payments solution that was flexible enough to meet our customers' needs and secure enough to protect their brand and simplify their PCI-compliance efforts. With Shift4, we met both goals."
Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET ® payment gateway supports a full integration to Microsoft Dynamics AX, and provides merchants the latest in card data security including Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) and Shift4's TrueTokenization ® , the most mature, reliable, and secure payment tokenization methodology on the market today.
Leveraging these technologies, retail merchants will have the ability to reduce their card data environment to the size of their swipe device. They can entirely remove their networks and back-office systems from the scope of their annual PCI assessments.
"AlfaPeople is all about empowering retail businesses to be agile and customer-centric, which is why this partnership is a perfect fit," said Shift4 VP of Business Development Bob Lowe. "Our solutions provide additional flexibility to accept payments how and where business needs dictate, and simplify payment processing so that retailers have more time to focus on their customers."
In addition to security, Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET provides pre- and post-settlement auditing capabilities, fraud protection, and complete bank and processor neutrality -- meaning merchants are free to change banks or processors as needed, with no risk of losing their transaction data and no interruption of service.
Merchants interested in this solution should contact Randy Cole at AlfaPeople by emailing crc@alfapeople.com .
About Shift4 Corporation Founded in Las Vegas in 1994, Shift4 Corporation is the world's largest independent payment gateway, serving more than 24,000 clients in several industries, including Hospitality, Retail, Food & Beverage, Mail/Telephone Order, and e-Commerce. Boasting more than 350 POS/PMS integrations and maintaining absolute bank and processor neutrality, Shift4 is proudly merchant-centric, helping clients secure the best discount rates while providing industry-leading security, speed, and reliability. Recognized as a pioneer of Tokenization, Shift4 has processed more than four billion tokenized transactions since it coined the term in 2005. Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET solution provides unparalleled pre- and post-settlement auditing capabilities, fraud protection, and drastically simplified PCI compliance. For more information, visit www.shift4.com .
About AlfaPeople At AlfaPeople, WE ARE RETAIL . We're the only Dynamics Partner in the US to be focused solely on the retail industry with Dynamics AX for Retail, CRM and SharePoint. Our staff has collectively worked on over 100 retail systems implementations and we only staff our team with proven solution and implementation experts in the Retail Industry. AlfaPeople US is part of the strong international AlfaPeople Group which represents more than 280 employees in 12 countries focused on implementing and supporting industry and customer-specific, integrated solutions built on the Microsoft platform of Dynamics and SharePoint. For more information, visit www.we-are-retail.com .
Media Contact Gianna Vivo Shift4 Corporation 702.597.2480 gvivo@shift4.com
