September 26th, 2013 by Elma Jane
Asta‘s Global Convention held in Miami FL, September 16-19, 2013 with National Transaction Corporation’s President, Mr. Mark Fravel in the Guest List.
ASTA American Society of Travel Agents and Agencies
With ASTA’s Global Convention held last September 16-19, 2013 in Miami Florida, National Transaction Corporation accessed to a powerful and inspirational collection of unrivalled 36 speakers including…Hilary Rodham Clinton, Former Secretary of State and Former U.S. Senator from New York. With high quality travel industry content and peer-to-peer networking opportunities, National Transaction Corporation’s Business has moved forward through these thought provoking sessions, breakouts and networking events.
Headed by NTC’s President, Mr. Mark Fravel, together with his Account Executives; Chelsie Fravel, Megan Fravel and Richard Delos Santos, they actively attended all the sessions that are involved in the Convention. National Transaction Corporation handed out around 300 Business Cards with Micro Screen Cleaner as part of their promotional giveaways in their very own NTC booth.
With the opportunity for over 1,400 ASTA CEOs, Presidents and Agency Owners that has come together with leading travel suppliers, the Convention influenced critical issues of our day. Engaged in instructive and new media technologies that impact our industry and shared innovative ideas with like-minded professionals. NTC a Credit Card/Electronic Payment Processing Merchant Account Services get to meet key people for Sabre, a Global Distribution System which products and services enable agencies to streamline accounting processes, build a powerful marketing database, and send targeted marketing pieces with measurable results. With the convention GUEST LIST which includes NTC and other Business Agencies and Companies like Car Rental, Cruise, Hotel, Insurance, Marketing Magazine, Travel, and a lot more are the individuals in which you want to meet and build your organization’s future.
With the ASTA Global Convention, it unites members and travel industry professionals to create a conference for the most influential buyers in the industry. As the leading advocate for travel agents, the travel industry and the traveling public, ASTA and its members represent 80% of all travel sold by travel agencies in the United States.
The ASTA Global Convention is reaching new heights through innovative education, captivating luminaries and diverse networking opportunities. ASTA continues to promote travel around the globe and to remind the traveling public of the value of professional services provided by travel agents and tour operators.
Posted in Travel Agency Agents Tagged with: agencies, agency, agent, airline, ASTA, car rental, clinton, credit card, cruise, hillary, hotel, Mark Fravel, merchant account, National Transaction Corporation, Processing, travel
August 15th, 2013 by Admin
The Federal Trade Commission recently charged a merchant account provider with violating federal law. The business sells credit card and debit card payment processing services to other small businesses in a business to business or B2B fashion. Allegedly the business made unsubstantiated and false claims to unwary businesses. Read more of this article »
Posted in Credit card Processing, Electronic Payments, Merchant Services Account, Visa MasterCard American Express Tagged with: b2b, credit card processing, FTC, ISO, merchant account, merchant services, MSD, terminal, transaction
New legislation is working its way through congress to require e-commerce retailers and mail order telephone order business to collect local sales taxes on transactions. e-commerce web sites and mail order telephone order businesses that conduct over $1 million gross sales and sell products and services in states where they don’t maintain brick and mortar presences would be required to collect and pay local and state taxes in those states. Targeting remote retailers that engage in interstate commerce the most obvious being mail order and telephone order as well as e-commerce shopping cart sites. Read more of this article »
Posted in Electronic Payments Tagged with: brick and mortar, DSS, e-commerce, electronic payment, mail order, merchant, merchant account, PCI, shopping cart, tax, taxes, telephone order
As a society, our smartphones are increasingly becoming a more important in our daily lives. Already replacing watches, alarm clocks, wallets and calendars today we carry our smartphones with us everywhere, including the bathroom. While smartphone users are traveling everywhere with their smartphones, are they actually booking travel with their smartphones? eMarketer asked that very question in a survey of 1,200 internet users and asked about their travel booking habits on the internet. The responses indicate that 40% of digital travel researchers will use their smartphones and tablets and mobile payments to complete travel bookings. Read more of this article »
Posted in Merchant Services Account Tagged with: agencies, agent, agents, credit card, e-commerce, gateway, ipad, Iphone, laptop, merchant account, notebook, smartphone, tablet, ticketless, travel
Ron Klien, also known as the “Grandfather of Possibilities” is an exceptional entrepreneur, business consultant, mentor and inventor. “I solve situations by simplifying them”, says Klein. At 77, the Philadelphia native is the inventor of the magnetic strip found on nearly all of today’s credit cards. The “validity checking system” as his patent reads is a magnetic strip on the back of a plastic card that functions much like a cassette recorder. Rather than recording sounds the magnetic strip records characters that can be ‘played’ into a credit card swipe reader. Read more of this article »
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: credit card, electronic device, magnetic strip, MasterCard, merchant account, process, reader, swipe reader, terminal, Visa MasterCard American Express
In discussions about merchant service providers, Square and PayPal entering talks is a given. Sqaure offers free credit card readers to entice merchants to switch their credit card processing to them. PayPal recently launched an initiative to expand it’s reach into retail stores and offers to waive processing fees through 2013. With the coming rush to mobile transaction processing more companies are entering the fray. AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile and Sprint are looking to get into the credit card transaction processing gig as they already carry that data over their cellular networks. ISIS Wallet and Google’s digital wallet bring credit card transactions to Android smartphones and tablets, and Visa is expected to launch its Visa Ready program as it rolls out test merchants. Read more of this article »
Posted in Mobile Payments Tagged with: Android, bluetooth, Chip & PIN, credit card processing, Digital Wallet, EMV, fees, google, ISIS, m-commerce, merchant, merchant account, nfc, payment processor, PayPal, Rates, Square, transactions, Visa MasterCard American Express
